COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COUNSELLING SKILLS IN NURSING

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEM 6065 COUNSELLING SKILLS IN NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 6

Offered By

Department of Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ZEKIYE ÇETINKAYA DUMAN

Offered to

Pediatric Nursing
Psychiatric Nursing
COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING
Internal Medicine Nursing
Surgical Nursing
Fundamentals of Nursing
Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to enable the student to become skilful at applying different approaches related with education and learning in nursing education.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To have the knowledge of counseling models
2   -To discuss how counseling models can be used in nursing
3   To practice counseling skills
4   To analyze how counseling practices are in national and international nursing
5   To know evidence based studies showing the effectiveness of counseling practices in nursing.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Fundamentals of Counseling, counseling models, qualifications of counseling
2 counseling process, specific problems and solutions, researches that show the effectiveness of counseling in nursing, counseling samples in nursing

Recomended or Required Reading

Boyer, EL (1992). A Special Report. Scholarship Reconsidered. Priorities of the Professoriate. Chapter 2: Enlarging the Perspective. California/ Princeton Fulfillment Services, New Jersey, 15-25.
Fardanesh, H.(2002). Learning theory approaches and teaching methods. British Journal of Educational Technology, 33(1), 95-98.
Ferguson, L., Day, RA. (2005) Evidence-based nursing education: myth or reality Journal of Nursing Education, 44, 107-115.
Fincher, R-M & Work, JA (2006). Perspectives on the scholarship of teaching. Medical Education, 40(4), 293-295.
Iwasiw, C, Goldenberg, D and Andrusyszyn, MA. Chapter 1: Introduction to curriculum development in nursing education. In Curriculum Development in Nursing Education. 2005, Boston, MA: Jones and Bartlett.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, question-answer, case presentation, concept map

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

(Which dimensions of learning outcomes are measured by which assessment criteria Assessment criteria should be associated with learning methods.)

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)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zekiye Çetinkaya Duman
Tel: 412 47 84

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 2 15 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 28 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 30 30
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.2
LO.35
LO.45
LO.55