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.

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 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 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.