COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL CARE NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEM 6054 CRITICAL CARE NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 12

Offered By

Department of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR ÖZLEM BILIK

Offered to

Internal Medicine Nursing
Surgical Nursing

Course Objective

This course - with respect to the doctorate thesis of the student within intensive care nursing- focuses on the needs of critically ill patient's family, ethical and legal responsibility of the nurse, care management and monitoring of the patient experiencing complex disorders. This course enables the student to intensively learn issues that are related to critically ill patient care through main resources; and by integrating the suggestions of systematic analysis/evidence-base guides with these issues; the lesson provides an opportunity for practice in the thesis field. With respect to the student's thesis subject, it allows the student to constitute a comprehensive fund of knowledge on critically ill patient care management and to follow and integrate the developments into his/her thesis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   : Students explain the up-to-date and advance knowledge related to critical patient care management which will underpin the doctorate thesis in the field of surgical diseases nursing inclusively.
2   They use and evaluate and utilize the up-to-date and advance knowledge related to critical patient care management which will underpin the doctorate thesis in the field of surgical diseases nursing systematically.
3   They follow the up-to-date and advance knowledge related to critical patient care management which will underpin the doctorate thesis in the field of surgical diseases nursing and integrate them to her/his thesis.
4   They examine and apply the up-to-date and advance knowledge related to critical patient care management which will underpin the doctorate thesis in the field of surgical diseases nursing
5   They use the basic technological devices related to her/his doctorate thesis field in the field of surgical nursing disease regarding critical patient care management
6   They use the proper communication skills in the field of surgical diseases nursing doctorate thesis and conduct multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary team collaboration
7   They act ethically and legally in the field of surgical diseases nursing doctorate thesis.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 To define the psycho-sociological problems, to determine and manage the needs of the patient and her/his family in the ICU To provide ethical and legal care for the patients in ICU and continue the role of patient supporter The targets of patient safety, infection control and medication safety patients in the ICU.
2 Respiration system diagnosis, patients care management in hypercapnic and hypoxemic respiratory failure, pulmonary embolism and mechanical ventilation, sedation in the patients in ICU Cardiovascular system diagnosis, cardiac deficiency, invasive and non-invasive monitoring and nurse responsibility in the patients in ICU. Acute Renal Deficiency Nursing Approaches in the patients in ICU

Recomended or Required Reading

Main resources
1. Sahinoglu AH., Issues and solutions of Intensive Care. Clinics in Turkey publishing house.2002 (2. bs. 2002) set Ofset. Ankara
2. Tra. Ed. Ozcengiz D. Eds. Irwin RS. Rippe JM. Manual for Intensive Care 3 th ed. 2002. Nobel Medicine Bookstore. Nobel printing Adana
3. Melander, Sheıla Drake Case Studies In Critical Care Nursing: A Guide For Application And Review ., Saunders Com. 2001.
Other resources
4. Ayres SM.,Grenvik A., Holbrook PR., Shoemaker WC. Textbook of critical care 3th ed. 1995. WB Saunders Company. Philadelphia.USA.
5. Hall JB. Schmid GA. Wood.LDH. Principles of critical care 1992. McGraw-Hill inc. New York USA.
6. Dolan JT. Critical care nursing clinical management through nursing process. 1991. FA Davis Company Philadelphia.USA.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Visually supported presentation
Case discussion
Questions-Answers
Brainstorming

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.30 +PAR * 0.30 +FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 +PAR * 0.30 +RST* 0.40

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. In the first block of the course, the student prepares the basic topics of critical patient care management, and determines and reports the data to be integrated to her/his thesis.
2. In the second block of the course, the student reviews the preparation and planning of the latest literature related to the thesis field of critical patient care management and reports.
3. The student examines one of the topics regarding practice/process/intervention that will be used in the thesis by making use of evidence base and well-designed research results, and develops a directive which can be applied and prepares it to be published in a national/international journal.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assist.Prof.Dr. Ozlem Bilik Tel: 0232 412 4787 ozlem.bilik@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 2 50 100
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 2 60 120
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
Final 1 10 10
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 300

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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