COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH POLICIES AND NURSING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEF 4047 HEALTH POLICIES AND NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Nursing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Nursing

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to enable the student to explain the primary health problems, health politics and their importance in the World and Turkey, and assess their effects upon the health personnel and individuals and the available legislations related with nursing in a critical way.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can define the available health problems in the World and Turkey
2   The student can be acquainted with the available health politics in the World
3   The student can be acquainted with the historical development of health politics in our country
4   The student can explain the available legislations related with nursing
5   The student can explain the effects of the conversion program in health upon the health personnel/nurse/individual

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, Publicity of the Course Health condition, primary problems and demographic transformation in our country
2 Health condition, primary problems and demographic transformation in our country
3 Health politics, health system (basic concepts)
4 Health politics in different countries (Venezuela)
5 Health politics in different countries (Cuba)
6 Health politics in different countries (Germany)
7 Health politics in different countries (England)
8 Midterm Exam
9 Historical process of health politics and health services in Turkey
10 Historical process of health politics and health services in Turkey
11 Legislations regarding health and nursing and nursing legislation
12 Finance of health services and health expenditures, health labour force
13 Conversion Program in Health
14 Law drift of public hospitals union
15 Assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

ISSUES OF SOCIETY AND PHYSICIAN S JOURNAL
www.turkhemsirelerdernegi.org.tr ET. 16.04.2012
http://www.turkhemsirelerdernegi.org.tr/menu/yonetmelikler/hemsirelik-yonetmeligi.aspx ET. 23.04.2012
http://www.turkhemsirelerdernegi.org.tr/menu/yonetmelikler/yatakli-tedavi-kurumlari.aspx ET. 23.04.2012
http://www.turkhemsirelerdernegi.org.tr/menu/saglik-guncel/thd-medimagazin-yazilari/hemsirelikte-uzmanlik-diplomalari-onaylanmaya-baslandi.aspx ET. 23.04.2012

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, question-answer, group study, literature review, self learning.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 MTE 2 MIDTERM EXAM 2
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE 1 + MTE 2 /2
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG *0.4+FCG * 0.6
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG *0.4 +RST* 0.6

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The exams assess the skills of; interpretation, recall, decision-making, explanation, combination of knowledge.
Student homeworks assess; their researches and analyses regarding a subject, and skills of writing and self assessment.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

02324124751
zuhal.bahar@deu.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Beşer
02324124752
ayse.beser@deu.edu.tr
Asst. Prof. Dr. Nihal Gördes Aydoğdu
02324124763
nihalgordes@gmail.com
Inst. Dr. Meryem Öztürk
02324124780
meryem.ozturk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 2 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 3 10 30
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.1555555
LO.25555
LO.3555
LO.45555
LO.555555