COURSE UNIT TITLE

: OSTOMY AND WOUND CARE NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
CHH 5013 OSTOMY AND WOUND CARE NURSING ELECTIVE 2 4 0 6

Offered By

Surgical Nursing

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR FATMA VURAL

Offered to

Surgical Nursing

Course Objective

This course aims the students to have information about wound and stoma care, nurse s tasks and responsibilities in accordance with the evidence-based resources,standards and up-to-date guides and to be able to apply these learnings to care.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student discusses the wound and stoma care nurse s professional task and importance.
2   The student explains the wound etiology and the physiopatological process of wound healing
3   The student discusses the up-to-date issues about wound and stoma care and the evidence-based guides.
4   The student follows the up-to-date healthcare technologies in wound and stoma care.
5   The student analyzes the datas of patient who needs wound and stoma care and make decisions on correct nursing attempts.
6   The student integrates his/her knowledge about wound and stoma care and has the practice skills for it.
7   The student finds new informations in wound and stoma care nursing and continue to develop individually
8   The student shows awareness of legal and ethic issues during the clinical practice.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course introduction The Place and Importance of Ostomy and Wound Nursing and Its Situation in Turkey (Education, organizations, ,Institutions)
2 Wound Etiologies and Formation Mechanism The Classifying of Wounds -According to its formation -According to tissue integrity -According to its depth -According to its hygiene The factors affecting Wound Formation
3 Wound Identification and Assessment Methods Used in Wound Identification and Assessment Wound Healing Processes (Inflammation, Granulation, Maturation ) Wound Healing Components (Regeneration, Scar Tissue) Wound Complications ( Kelloid, Contructure etc)
4 Nursing Care in the process of Wound Healing Preparation to Wound Bed
5 The factors affecting Wound Healing Wound Healing Types (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary Healing)
6 Surgical Wounds Surgical Field Infections
7 Preventing the pressure sore and Nursing Approach to its care
8 Diabetic Foot Wounds and Nursing Approach
9 Midterm
10 Venous and arteial Wounds and Nursing Approach (pressure practice etc.)
11 Wound Care Products (Hydrokolloids, hydrocollegenes, alginates, tissue equivalent wound care products, growing factors etc)
12 New Technologies in Wound Care (VAC,Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment, Ozone Treatment, Larval treatment etc)
13 Ostomy Types and Nursing Approach
14 Ostomy Care products and New Technologies in Ostomy Care

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Carrier-Kohlman V. Pathophysiological Phenomena in Nursing: Human Responses to Illness, 2nd ed., WB Saunders Company, Philadelphia, 2003.
2. McCance KL, Huether SE. Pathophysiology The Biologic Basis For Disease in Adults and Children, The C.V. Mosby Company, StLouis, 2005.
4. Lewis SL, Heitkemper ML, Dirksen SR, O Brien PG, Bucher L. Medical Surgical Nursing Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. Mosby Elsevier, ST Louis 2007
5. Porrett T, McGrath A. Stoma Care. Blackweell Publishing, Oxford, 2005.
6. http://www.wocn.org/ WOCN: Wound, Ostomy and Continence Society
7. http://journals.lww.com/jwocnonline/pages/default.aspx, Journal of Wound, Ostomy & Continence Nursing
8. http://www.wcetn.org/ The World Council of Enterostomal Therapists, A world of expert professional nursing care for people with ostomy, wound or continence needs
9. http://www.ewma.org/ Europan Wound Management Association

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Visually supported presentation
Questions-Answers
Group discussion
Brainstorming
Case discussion
Clinical Practice

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

1. Assignment/presentation
2. Midterm
3. Final exam
- In the practice, the ability of giving care based on the theorical information which is acquired will be assessed.
- In the practice, the ability of reporting and discussing the given care will be assessed.
- The student s command of subject and handling the up-to-date information during the presentation preparations will be assessed.
- In the exams interpretation, recollection, making decision, explaining, classifying and information integrating skills will be assessed.

Assessment Criteria

- The student s presentation skill, subject preparation and attendance to discussions will be assessed.
- Skills of interpretation, recollection, making decision, explaining, classifying and information integrating will be assessed in the final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ozgul Karayurt. Tel: 0 232 412 4785 ozgul.kyurt@deu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Aklime DICLE Tel: 0 232 412 4775 aklime.dicle@deu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ozlem Bilik Tel: 0232 412 4787 ozlem.bilik@deu.edu.tr
Assist. Prof. Dr. Fatma Vural. Tel: 0232 412 4780 Fatma.vural@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

every Wednesday 08.30 AM-12.15 PM

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Practice 14 4 56
Weekly pre-course/post-course preparations (reading the course materials, the articles etc.) 13 2 26
Preparation to the mid-term 1 8 8
Preparation to the final exam 1 10 10
Making a presentation 4 5 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 150

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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