COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH POLICY AND NURSING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEM 6053 HEALTH POLICY AND NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Department of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR FATMA ŞEYDA ÖZBIÇAKÇI

Offered to

Pediatric Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Internal Medicine Nursing
Surgical Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing
Nursing Management
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH NURSING

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to develop knowledge and skill in subjects of health policies in Turkey and in the world and critical approach towards these policies, health policies and history of nursing, current laws about nursing, government policies, political advocacy of nursing, political development samples in Turkey and in the world, basic philosophy of health policies, analysis and strategies

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Knowing current health policies in the world
2   Knowing historical development of health policies in Turkey
3   Explaining the effectiveness of nursing in health policies
4   Explainin the effectiveness of nursing organizations in other countries on health policies

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Health policies and nursing Current Health Laws and nursing
2 Health policy, basic concepts Health policy, health system, economy politics
3 Political advocacy of nursing, basic philosophy and political analysis and strategies
4 Country health presentations of students Canada nursing America nursing Cuba nursing England nursing
5 Historical change of health policies in the world Health policies in different countries
6 Nursing organizations, nursing actions, heath politics and ethics
7 Conversion in health Student presentations
8 Health policies in turkey, heath reform and practices after 1980
9 Actors in health politics; government, finance man models, health workers
10 Health policies actors/ Student panel Assessment of course

Recomended or Required Reading

Policy & politics in nursing and health care,2009
Yazar: Diana J. Mason,Judith Kline Leavitt,Mary W. Chaffee
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, concept, question-answer, literature review, self learning

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRJ PROJECT
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 +ASG * 0.15 +PRJ* 0.25 +FIN*0.30
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 +ASG * 0.15 +PRJ* 0.25 +RST*0.30

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Through exams, the skills of being able to interpret, remember, decide, explain and combine the knowledge are assessed.

In the assignments of the students, the skills of researching and analyzing a subject, comparing it with world samples, writing and self expression are assessed

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

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 2 15 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 2 25 50
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparing presentations 2 8 16
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.15
LO.255
LO.3555
LO.455