NURSING (TURKISH, PHD)
PhD	TR-NQF-HE: Level 8	QF-EHEA: Third Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
HEM6027	Health Assessment and Advanced Clinical Decision Making	Fall Spring	3	0	3	9

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	Turkish
Type of course:	Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. FATMA ETİ ASLAN
Course Lecturer(s):	Prof. Dr. FATMA ETİ ASLAN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	none
Course Objectives:	The aim of this course is to provide the student with the ability to detect possible health problems through a head-to-toe and focused evaluation of a healthy or sick individual and to develop intellectual and perceptual skills in this regard. In this process, the student can make advanced clinical decisions based on the theoretical knowledge and skills he has learned and subjective findings such as patient complaints, as well as objective findings obtained as a result of physical examination and other diagnostic procedures, and apply the recommended medical treatment and care for these care problems, analyze the results, can develop solutions and evaluate processes as a whole.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
At the end of this lesson
1. Student can evaluate a healthy patient from head to toe
2. The student can make clinical decisions based on objective and subjective data
3. Based on clinical decisions, the student determines the patient's care needs for the current problem/problems and makes further attempts to eliminate them and evaluates the results.

Course Content

1. Disease / environmental health and nursing concepts,
2. The definition of health and health inequalities,
3. Protecting and improving health, principles and methods ,
4- public health problem in Turkey ,
5- preservation and improvement of maternal health ,
6. protection of the health and development of school
7. protection of adolescent health and development
8. Workers / protection of employee's health and development,
9. protection of elderly health and development .

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to HEM6027 course. Assignments and Information about delivery dates
2)	Measurement and evaluation as a term
3)	Examination of measurement and evaluation interpretation methods/tools Making a clinical decision based on complaints, observations, symptoms and findings: Diagnosis Principles of data interpretation
4)	Case studies Introduction of the data collection form
5)	Anamnesis: Taking a health history Physics Inspection methods will be explained in practice
6)	Laboratory diagnostic methods Clinical diagnosis based on complaints, observations, symptoms and findings making a decision: making a diagnosis
7)	Midterm
8)	Evaluation from head to toe Using relevant scales Making a clinical decision based on complaints, observations, symptoms and findings: Making a diagnosis
9)	cultural assessment Shock, Pain and Nutrition Evaluating and making clinical decisions regarding possible problems
10)	Evaluation of Nerve-Muscular and Sensory Systems. Making further clinical decisions based on complaints, observations, symptoms and findings: Diagnosis.
11)	Evaluation of the upper and lower GIS and its appendages (KC, SC, Pancreas) Making further clinical decisions based on complaints, observations, symptoms and findings: make a diagnosis
12)	Skin and related disorders Evaluation of the system Complaints, observations, Based on symptoms and findings, further clinical making a decision: making a diagnosis
13)	Evaluation of the Endocrine System Complaints, advanced clinical evaluation based on observations, symptoms and findings making a decision: making a diagnosis
14)	Evaluating the lesson, student opinion and discuss your suggestions

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Kitaplar
1. Eti Aslan, F. (Ed). (2017). Sağlığın Değerlendirilmesi ve Klinik Karar Verme. Akademisyen Kitabevi, Ankara.
2. Eti Aslan, F., Karakovan, A., (2022). Dahili ve Cerrahi Hastalıklarda Bakım. Akademisyen Kitabevi, Ankara.
3. Eti Aslan, F. (2016). Cerrahi Bakım : Vaka analizleri ile birlikte. Akademisyen Kitabevi, Ankara
4. Eti Aslan, F. (2014). Ağrı, Doğası ve Kontrolü. Akademisyen Kitabevi, Ankara
5. Brown, D., Edwards, H., Seaton, L., and Buckley, T. (2015). Lewis's Medical-surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. Elsevier Health Sciences.
6. Dirksen, S. R., Heitkemper, M. M., and Bucher, L. (2014). Medical-surgical Nursing: Assessment and Management of Clinical Problems. Elsevier/Mosby.
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	9	126
Study Hours Out of Class	14	6	84
Presentations / Seminar	2	10	20
Homework Assignments	5	5	25
Midterms	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
Total Workload			257

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	To be able to reflect nursing knowledge into practice, and to gain skills and comprehensive and contemporary knowledge, and develop critical and creative thinking skills.	5
2)	To learn the importance of the application of ethical principles and committees in health care for the individual and society.	4
3)	To be able to use multidisciplinary and community-based approaches for responding health problems, and meeting needs for health protection and development and for solving health problems of individual, family and community both at national and international levels.	5
4)	To develop skills for combining theoretical knowledge with professional practice learned during expertise in the field of nursing and to synthesize, and to reflect the knowledge into research and practices.	5
5)	To use the contemporary professional and nursing care and information technologies in an advanced level and to able to create new solutions.	5
6)	To be able access to information related to nursing concepts, principles and methods, and to be able to conduct assessment and do scientific research, and to be able reflect the knowledge and skills into practice.	5
7)	To follow up advances in evidence based practice and to conduct evidence-based research that will contribute to professional practices.	4
8)	To follow up emerging technologies and current development and changes in health policy and scientific research in the field of healthcare necessary for the professional practice.	5
9)	To plan, implement and evaluate professional projects and research in collaboration across other disciplines in health care, with a sense of social responsibility.	5
10)	To develop new ideas and methods based on high-level mental processes such as creative and critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.	4
11)	To act as a leader in environments for solving professional and interdisciplinary problems.	4
12)	To conduct studies in field of health based on advanced professional development and lifelong learning principles.	5