COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEF 4028 OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Nursing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR AYŞE BEŞER

Offered to

Nursing

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to enable the student to have information about the occupational health, development of occupational health in the World and Turkey, organizations related with occupational health, occupational health and safety, occupational health nursing, its historical development, roles and responsibilities, application standards, regulation of occupational health nursing, health protection, ethical principles, risk groups, workplace nursing practices, assessment of workplace nursing, process of workplace nursing, budget planning, registers, and provide the required equipment for them to work as workplace nurses.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can become acquainted with regulations that provide basis for the presentation of occupational health service
2   The student can explain the roles of the occupational health nurse, regarding the presentation of occupational health service aimed at the workplace and workers
3   The student can define the general occupational health and safety problems in working environments
4   The student can become acquainted with the applications to be conducted aimed at the workers health
5   The student can become acquainted with the health education and consultancy principles aimed at workers health
6   The student can explain the assessment methods of occupational health services
7   The student can become acquainted with the developments in the presentation of occupational health services
8   The student can become acquainted with the ethical principles that will be used by the nurse in working environments
9   The student can define the research requirements aimed at working environments

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Publicity of the program, formation of study groups
2 Occupational health nursing, its roles and duties
3 Occupational health services in our country
4 Conversation with the nurse of workplace health unit
5 Being acquainted with the parties, national and international agencies/institutions and studies related with occupational health
6 Researches and their priorities in occupational health nursing
7 Ethics in occupational health nursing
8 1.MIDTERM EXAM
9 Workplace risk assessment
10 Health development, health education and consultancy in the workplace
11 2. MIDTERM EXAM
12 Recording and its importance in occupational health nursing
13 Workplace trip
14 Sharing the workplace observation results
15 Cont.

Recomended or Required Reading

Periodicals

AAOHN 01/04/1999
Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health 01/01/2005-
International Archives of Occupational And Environmental Health 1997-
International Journal of Occupational And Environmental Health 01/01/2002-
International Journal of Occupational Medicine And Environmental Health 01/01/2006-
Journal of Occupational Health 2002-
Journal of Occupational Health And Safety, Australia And New Zealand 01/02/2005-
Journal of Occupational Health Psychology 01/07/2003-
Occupational Health 01/07/2002-
Occupational Health & Safety 01/01/1992-
Occupational Safety & Health Journal 01/04/2006-


BOOKS
1. ICOH,SCOHN (1996). Education and Training of Occupational Health Nurses. Report No:7.International Commission on Occupational Health,Scientific Committee on Occupational Health Nursing.
2. Salazar M (2001). Core Curriculum for Occupational Environmental Health Nursing,Second ed.Saunders Company.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, question-answer, concept, literature review, self learning, field applications

Assessment Methods

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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

described in course

Assessment Criteria

The exams assess the skills of; interpretation, recall, decision making, explanation, combination of knowledge.
The student homeworks assess; their researches and analyses regarding a subject, comparison with World examples, evidence-based applications, the skills of writing and self expression.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Zuhal Bahar
02324124751
zuhal.bahar@deu.edu.tr
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Beşer
02324124752
ayse.beser@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Exam dates will be specified in the course program. When these dates are determined, they can be changed.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 1 2 2
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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