COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH CARE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEM 5097 COMMUNICATION IN HEALTH CARE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Department of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR NESLIHAN GÜNÜŞEN

Offered to

Internal Medicine Nursing
Emergency and Clinical Care Nursing
Oncology Nursing
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Pediatric Nursing
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING
Fundamentals of Nursing
Surgical Nursing
Nursing Management
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to teach the basic principles of communication with the healthy and sick individual, and group, theories aimed at comprehending the reasons of human behaviours, factors affecting the communication, comprehension of the importance of communication in nursing and ways of making Professional relationship.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can explain factors affecting the communication.
2   The student can know her/himself and question the relation between the values and communication features.
3   The student can critically discuss the conflict solution methods.
4   The student can use communication skills in conflicts.
5   The student can individually discern the features of effective and ineffective communication.
6   The student can use the professional communication skills in interpersonal relations.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction and Determination of Needs Self Awareness
2 Communication Obstacles-Theories
3 Attribution Theory
4 Patch Adams/ Watching and Discussing the Film
5 Behaviours and Communication Styles in Interpersonal Relations
6 Receiving and Giving Feedback
7 Basic Interview Skills: Questioning, Summarizing, Concreting Non-verbal Communication
8 Perception- Prejudice and Cognitive Distortions
9 Cognitive Distortions prac.
10 Exam
11 Listening- Empathy
12 Conflict Management
13 Patient Nurse Communication Cases: reflection
14 Cases: reflection Course Assessment

Recomended or Required Reading

Stuart, G.W. (2009) Principles and Practice of Psychiatric Nursing. Mosby Elsevier, Missouri, USA.
Townsend, MC. (2009) Psychiatric Mental Healt Nursing. Sixth Edition. David Company. Philadelphia. USA

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, questions-answers, case presentation, concept map, film watching

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50+ FIN* 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.50+ RST* 0.50

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria


(What dimensions of learning outputs are assessed and by which assessment criteria are they assessed Assessment criteria shall be associated with learning methods.)

Skills of interpretation, recollection, decision-making, explanation, knowledge combination are assessed by means of exams.

In their homeworks/presentations, the students are assessed in terms of defining, analysing, planning, deciding the cases, as well as conducting and assessing the interventions.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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