HCR706 - EMERGENCY NURSING
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EMERGENCY NURSING | HCR706 | 1st Semester | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| Prequisites | NA | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Observation Team/Group Work Preparing and/or Presenting Reports Drill and Practice Case Study Problem Solving Brain Storming | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc. Prof. Zeliha Özdemir Köken, Assoc. Prof. Melek Serpil Talas, Assist. Prof. Zahide Tunçbilek, Assist. Prof. Çiğdem Canbolat Seyman, Assist. Prof. Burcu Duluklu | |||||
| Course objective | Student received this course gains knowledge of how to reach scientific and current knowledge, to follow literature, to assess the accuracy, validity and reliability of the knowledge, and to apply the knowledge related to emergency nursing, the main concepts and principles used in nursing care by using scientific and current knowledge to assess the signs and symptoms occur in diseases in cell level; gains skills and competences to plan and give comprehensive emergency care with holistic and systematic approach, to evaluate and report the effects of given nursing care; to plan and carry out a scientific study, and to report the results by analyzing them; to publish at least one scientific article related to emergency nursing in national or international journal with reviewer; to contribute for scientific and ethical problem solving encounter in problems related to emergency nursing and to promote developments of these worths. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | The course includes topics as history of emergency nursing, characteristics of emergency care enviorenment and related regulations, definition, importance and basic principles of emergency aid, the basic principles of emergency patient transport, emergency diagnosis and triage , physiological reactions to trauma, basic life support, advanced life support, multiple traumas, head- neck- face traumas, chest - abdomen- extremity traumas, burns, exposure of heat and cold, poisoning, medical emergencies, case studies and clinical practices. | |||||
| References | 1. Şelimen, Deniz., Kuğuoğlu, Sema., Eti Aslan, Fatma., Olgun, Nermin. (2004). Acil bakım, Genişletilmiş 3. Baskı. İstanbul : Yüce Yayım. 2. Humphreys, M., Ewens, B., & Jevon, P. (2008). Nursing Medical Emergency Patients. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 3. Schumacher, Lori., Chernecky, Cynthia C. (2010). Critical care & emergency nursing, 2nd ed. St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier. 4. Cole, E. (2009). Trauma Care?: Initial Assessment and Management in the Emergency Department. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. 5. Dolan, Brian., Holt, Lynda. (2008). Accident & emergency: theory into practice, 2nd ed. New York: Baillière Tindall Elsevier. 6. Newberry, Lorene., Sheehy, Susan Budassi. (2003). Sheehy's emergency nursing : principles and practice, 5th ed. St. Louis: Mosby. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to the course |
| Week 2 | Emergency aid and first aid concept, importance and basic principles Historical development of emergency medical services Characteristics of emergency care environment |
| Week 3 | Legislation of Emergency Care Services Emergency action plans for emergency units Basic principles of emergency patient transport, Emergency diagnosis |
| Week 4 | Management of emergency patients |
| Week 5 | Basic Life Support and Advanced Cardiac Life Support |
| Week 6 | Trauma emergencies and emergency care |
| Week 7 | Medical emergencies and emergency care |
| Week 8 | Medical emergencies and emergency care |
| Week 9 | Burns Environmental emergencies |
| Week 10 | MIDTERM EXAM |
| Week 11 | Pediatric emergencies Child neglect and abuse |
| Week 12 | Geriatric emergencies Elder neglect and abuse |
| Week 13 | Substance abuse in psychiatric emergencies |
| Week 14 | Domestic violence / Partner violence Sexual assault / abuse |
| Week 15 | Preparation for final exam |
| Week 16 | FINAL EXAM |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 1 | 25 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 25 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 2 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 15 | 210 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 9 | 6 | 54 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 6 | 6 |
| Total Workload | 53 | 39 | 360 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Knows how to reach and use the scientific and current literature related to surgical nursing. | X | ||||
| 2. Knows the normal physiologic process of the body, the signs and symptoms occur in diseases and uses them in nursing care. | X | ||||
| 3. Gives, evaluates and reports perioperative nursing care to the patient with holistic and systematic approach by using evidence-based knowledge. | X | ||||
| 4. Uses informatics and care thecnologies in nursing education, practice, research and management. | |||||
| 5. Analyzes and synthesizes new and complex ideas related to field with systematic approach. | |||||
| 6. Plans and carries out studies related to surgical nursing, presents the study results in a national or an international conference. | X | ||||
| 7. Publishes at least one scientific paper in national or international journal. | X | ||||
| 8. Developes new ideas and methods related to surgical nursing by using critical thinking, problem solving skills. | |||||
| 9. Does statistical analyze at level of evaluation of scientific paper. | |||||
| 10. Uses at least one foreign language to reach scientific knowledge, to communicate written and verbally. | |||||
| 11. Advocates his/her original opinions while discussing with experts on issues related to his/her field and communicates effectively to show his/her competence. | |||||
| 12. Contributes for scientific and ethical problem solving and promotes developments of these worths. | X | ||||
| 13. Gets responsibility to fulfil the duties during clinical practices of the undergraduate students. | |||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest