The dissertation involves specialty level synthesis of the student?s knowledge and proficiency in defining the problem, methodological design, literature review, data collection and evaluation, statistical analysis of the data, submission of systematic progress reports and presentation of the completed study conducted in adherence to scientific ethical principles.

The aim of this course is to help students develop a social science perspective on common issues of health and illness in Türkiye through discussions on how the subfield of anthropology of health and illness became established in the U.S. in the 1970s and how it became institutionalized with different theoretical frameworks in different countries, including Türkiye.

The topics discussed in the course are the protection and promotion of health i.e. risk assessment, early diagnosis and prevention for chronic diseases in individuals, families and communities, treatment and care of chronic diseases and its acute and chronic complications i.e. acute pulmonary edema, gastrointestinal bleeding, hypertensive crisis, stroke, acute coronary syndromes, organization of nursing care to provide optimum care in diseases, basic principles of patient and family-centered care, concepts of elderly and fragility, health problems and priorities in elderly people, chronic disease management models, strategies to improve the adherence for disease management, palliative care, complementary therapies, care of individuals who need advanced care and treatment and home care. The aim of this course is to improve the knowledge and skills of the students on improving health-promoting behaviours and the application of individual and community-based interventions for decreasing major biological risk factors i.e hypertension, high blood glucose, obesity as well as planning and implementing nursing care in the areas of medical nursing i.e.emergency unit, internal medicine departments, outpatient settings, home-care settings.

This course aims to provide proper conditions to prepare the student as a psychiatric nurse in future to give effective, productive and high quality care. Students are expected to gain the skills and knowledge to assess patients with mental disorders, discuss practice reports, identify the ethical and legal issues encountered in practice, evaluate the solutions, assess mental health problems in patients with physical disorders and administer nursing care plans in accordance with the principles and standards of psychiatric nursing.

In this course the student will discuss the effects of the nature of knowledge underlying epistemological and ontological assumptions, laws, culture and gender roles on the old, current and future theories of women?s health nursing based on scientific research. In this course the students are expected to develop their own points of view in line with the theory.

This course enables the student to examine the methods and techniques used in current nursing practices extensively and to achieve the skill to develop new techniques and methods. Within the scope of the course, examination of basic concepts like science, method, technique, standard and topics on historical development process of science, method of scientific thinking, the concept of technology and evolution process of technology, method development in nursing, process of application for a patent are focused on. The student is expected to develop a prototype of a product/technique/method.

The student will examinecurrent topics in nursing using different perspectives and analytical methods and discuss new problem-solving approaches. Clinical decision-making and healthcare systems in medical nursing, strategy development to solve the problems, innovations, nursing care models, chronic diseases and improvement of life quality and health policies of Türkiye (i.e. socialization in health care, current health policies) will be discussed in this course.

In this course the student will discuss the effects of the nature of knowledge underlying epistemological and ontological assumptions, laws, culture and gender roles on the old, current and future theories of psychiatric nursing based on scientific research. The students are expected to develop their own points of view in line with the theory.

In this course the student will examine the historical development and administative functions in school health nursing, theoretical models and health promotion in school health nursing, primary, secondary, tertiary prevention in the school, evidence-based approach in school health nursing, environmental and health related risks and risk management in the school, health education, technology, communication with students, teachers and families, counselling, emergency planning and policy making.