COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEM 6061 SCHOOL HEALTH NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Department of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR FATMA ŞEYDA ÖZBIÇAKÇI

Offered to

Pediatric Nursing
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

Course Objective

This course aims to teach the student how to protect the health of school children, their parents and school personnel, how to identify factors affecting school health and how to provide nursing services in treatment, care and rehabilitation stages in cases of disease.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can evaluate the health of school children, their families and school personnel.
2   The student can take measures to protect the health of school children, their families and school personnel
3   The student can plan the nursing care provided for the school children with special needs, their families and school personnel.
4   The student can evaluate the physiological and social setting of the school.
5   The student can organize the physiological and social setting of the school according to requirements.
6   The student can provide school health services with teamwork.
7   The student can keep records related to school health nursing services.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 School, School Health, and School Health Nursing
2 School Health, and School Health Nursing in Turkey and in the world
3 School Health Theories and Models
4 Role and Responsibilities of School Health Nurses
5 School Health Services
6 1st Midterm
7 Characteristics of school-age child and family
8 Improving the health of school-age child, family and school staff
9 Common negative health behaviours of school-age child
10 Common negative health behaviours of school-age child
11 Common diseases seen in school-age child and nursing care
12 School nursing and evidence
13 2nd Midterm
14 Management in school of the chronic diseased children
15 Family participation

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Watkins D. Edwars J. Gastrell P (Eds). Foreward By. Joan Higgins: Community Health Nursing, Framworks For Practice. Bailliere Tindall, 2003.
2. Stone-Clemen S. McGuire SL Eigsti DG: Comprehensive Community Health Nursing, Family, Aggregate & Community Practice. Sixth Edition, Mosby, 2002.
3. Lewis KD, Bear BJ: Manual Of School Health. Second Edition. Saunders, 2002.
4. Nies MA. McEwen M; Community Health Nursing, Promotıng Health Populations. WB Saunders Company, 2001.
5. Smith CM, Maurer FA: Community Health Nursing Theory And Practice. Second Edition. WB Saunders Company, 2000.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

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

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.25 +ODV * 0.25 + PAR* 0.20 + FIN*0.30
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.25 +ODV * 0.25 + PAR* 0.20 + RST*0.30

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The student s interpretation, recollection, decision making, description, information combination skills shall be assessed via exams.
In the assignments, the student s ability to making research on the subject, analyze the subject, compare the results with real-life examples, include evidence-based applications, write and express ideas are assessed.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Asst. Prof. Dr. Şeyda Özbıçakçı E -Mail: ozbicak@deu.edu.tr 24769

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lecturing 15 2 30
Weekly pre-course/post-course preparations (reading the course materials, the articles, etc.) 15 4 60
Assignment 1 26 26
Presentation 3 10 30
Final Exam 1 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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