COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
HEF 3060 COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING COMPULSORY 5 6 0 12

Offered By

Nursing

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLENDAM KARADAĞ

Offered to

Nursing

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to gain students the knowledge, skills and competencies to practice nursing attempts related to health protection and development in provision of primary health services.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can discuss socio-economic and cultural issues that affect individual, family and community health in the world and in our country.
2   The student knows the basic concepts and principles related to Community Healt Nursing.
3   The student provides evidence-based nursing care in accordance with cultural and ethical values in order to avoid problems, improve health and rehabilitate using risk approaches according to life periods in primary health services.
4   The student can evaluate primary health issues as a bio-psycho-social whole and develops training programs that reduce health risks.
5   The student makes inter-sectoral collaboration to meet health requirements.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

HEF 2036 - Internal Medicine Nursing
HEF 2038 - Surgical Nursing

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Health Organization, Community Health Nursing, Health transformation program
2 Family Nursing, Household Accidents and First Aid Applications, Ethics in Public Health
3 Society Diagnostics and Community Health Nursing
4 Early diagnosis and screening
5 School Health Nursing
6 Control of communicable diseases in the community, Vulnerable groups in society
7 1st Midterm
8 Health education, Guidance and counseling, Promoting health
9 Home care nursing
10 Geriatrics health and control of non-communicable diseases
11 Nursing in extraordinary situations
12 Occupational health nursing, Environmental health nursing
13 Transcultural nursing
14 Community mental health, Global health and international institutions and organizations

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Güler, Ç., Akın, L. (2012) Halk Sağlığı Temel Bilgiler, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları, Ankara.
2. Stanhope, M.,&Lancaster, J. (2013). PublicHealthNursing-RevisedReprint: Population-CenteredHealthCare in theCommunity. ElsevierHealthSciences.
3. Allender, J.,Rector, C., & Warner, K. (2013). Community&PublicHealthNursing: PromotingthePublic sHealth. Lippincott Williams &Wilkins.
4.Linsley, P.,Kane, R., &Owen, S. (Eds.). (2011). Nursingforpublichealth: promotion, principlesandpractice. Oxford UniversityPress.
5.Maurer, F. A.,& Smith, C. M. (2012). Community/publichealthnursingpractice: Healthforfamiliesandpopulations. ElsevierHealthSciences.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, question-answer, literature review, self learning, area practices

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 AS Arasinav
2 UYG Uygulama
3 YYIN YyiçiNotu AS*0.50+UYG*0.50
4 FN Final
5 FINBN Final BaşarıNotu YYIN*0.50+FN*0.50
6 BUT Bütünleme
7 BUTBN BütünlemeBaşarıNotu YYIN*0.50+BUT*0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The intra-semester grade shall be calculate by taking 50% of the average midterm grade of the student and 50% of the application grade. The semester grade shall be calculated by taking 50% of the intra-semester grade and will 50% of the final grade.

Semester Grade: 50% intra-semester grade (50% of Midterm Exam + 50% of application) + 50% final grade

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Ass. Prof. Şeyda Özbıçakçı
ozbicak@deu.edu.tr

Ass. Prof.. Nihal Gördes Aydoğdu
nihalgordes@gmail.com

Ass. Prof.. Meryem Öztürk Haney
meryem.ozturk@deu.edu.tr

Letc. Gülcihan Arkan
gulcihan.arkan@deu.edu.tr
Letc.. Kübra Gürkan
kubra_gurkan@yahoo.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 5 70
Field Study 14 6 84
Preparation before/after weekly lectures (reading course materials, essays etc.) 14 5 70
Preparation for midterm exam 1 22 22
Preparation for final exam 1 50 50
Final Exam 1 2 2
Midterm Exam 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 300

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.2555555
LO.35555555555
LO.45555555555
LO.55555555555

CONTACT INFORMATION
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