COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PERIOPERATIVE NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEF 2072 PERIOPERATIVE NURSING ELECTIVE 2 0 0 2

Offered By

Nursing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ÖZLEM BILIK

Offered to

Nursing

Course Objective

This course aims to gain the students knowledge on the role and responsibilities of the operating room nurse, patient care in the operating room, operating room construction and architecture, patient and employee safety in operating room.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can define the professional role and importance of the operating room nurse.
2   The student knows nursing attempts according to the types of anesthesia and surgery.
3   The student can explain the principles of patient care in the operating room.
4   The student can discuss the importance of patient safety in the operating room.
5   The student can discuss the importance of employee safety in the operating room.
6   The student can explain the importance of legal and ethical issues in the operating room environment.
7   The student can access to new information related to operating room nursing and continue his or her personal development.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Recommendations of AORN on the role and responsibilities of the operating room team - Role and responsibilities of surgical nurses - Introduction of Turkish Surgical and Operating Room Nurses Association
2 Prevention of Surgical and Operating Room Infections
3 Types of anesthesia
4 Operating room nursing standards
5 Operating room nursing standards (Cont.)
6 Preparation of instrument table, responsibilities of nurses in prevention of surgery positions and complications (pressure sores, DVT, etc)
7 Architecture, organization and management of operating room
8 1st MIDTERM
9 Employee safety in operating room
10 Employee safety in operating room
11 Patient safety in operating room Safe surgery checklist
12 Registration and documentation in operating room
13 Legal and ethical issues in operating room
14 Assesment

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Rothrock C. R. Alexander's Care of the Patient in Surgery, fourteenth edition, Elsevier mosby, 2010.
2. Haigh H. Perioperative standards and recommended practices. 2010 edition, AORN; 2010
3. Smeltzer C. S, Bare B, Hinkle J, ve Cheever K. Brunner & Suddarth s textbook of Medikal-Surgical Nursing. Twelfth edition, 2010; 422-455
4. AORN (Association of periopertive Registered Nurses) http://www.aorn.org/, Ekim 2011
5. Karadakovan A, Aslan E. F. Dahili ve Cerrahi Hastalıklarda Bakım, Nobel Kitapevi, Adana, 2010
6. Erdil F, Elbaş Ö. N. Cerrahi Hastalıkları Hemşireliği, 4. Baskı, 2001

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

If needed, other assessment methods can be added to the table given below.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Ara Sınav
2 FN Final
3 FSB Final Sonu Başarı Değerlendirmesi VZ *0.50 +FN * 0.50
4 BUT Bütünleme
5 BSB Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Değerlendirmesi VZ *0.50 +BUT * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Optional, if the instructor needs to add some explanation or further note, this column can be selected from the DEBIS menu.
The semester grade shall be calculated by taking 50% of the intra-semester grade and will 50% of the final grade.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 8 8
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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