Course Descriptions

Examination of normal physiological processes of the cell and symptom - findings related to disease at cell level; cell, genetic control of cell proliferation and cancer; homeostasis; physiology of stress and disease, cell damage and adaptation, cell membrane physiology, acid-base equilibrium and imbalance, fluid-electrolyte equilibrium and imbalance

The aim of this course is to facilitate learning and skills development on the impact of high fertility on maternal and child health indicators, family planning methods used in Türkiye and in the world, and family planning counseling in light of current developments.

In this course the student will examine nursing care in relation to reproductive health: adolescence, prevention, treatment and care of sexually transmitted diseases, common infections in women, miscarriage and women?s health, menopause, cancer in women, women in old-age health and nursing care, and osteoporosis. The student is also expected to learn current knowledge in topics related to women?s place in society such as gender roles, women?s health in Türkiye, international meetings about women?s issues and reflections on Türkiye, women?s rights, health issues in women, violence and women, women in politics, religion, urbanization and the workplace.

In this course the student will examine global and regional aspects of child health, children?s health education, basic health services, child health nursing, current status, dependent and independent functions, crisis situations and the child, nursing and the family, needs of hospitalized children, chronically ill children and the family, multidisciplinary and family-centered approaches.

In this course the student will examine the role of the pediatric nurse as care-giver, counselor and educator: nursing diagnosis of the physical, emotional and social responses of the family and the child to acute and chronic health problems, and the planning and application of nursing care towards the needs of the family and the child.

Basic physiology of body systems, physiopathology of diseases, causes of symptom - finding and discussion of nursing care: cardiovascular, respiratory, renal, digestive, endocrine, nervous system and blood cells and immune system.

In this course the student will examine frequency distributions, distribution criteria, probabality and probability distribution, discrete and continuous distributions, normal distribution, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals of means, significance testing of differences between group means, significance testing in paired analysis, chi-square tests, inferential tests, regression analysis, hypothesis testing, confidence intervals in simple lineer regression, and correlation analysis.

The aim of this course is to help the student develop the skill to assess and provide care during and after the labour and delivery process, perform delivery, and provide the mother and newborn with preliminary post-natal care. The student is expected to gain theoretical knowledge about normal labor & delivery processes, assess cervical dilatation and effacement, monitor the infusion of induction, assess fetal positioning, presentation and engagement, assess uterine contractions during labour, monitor and evaluate NST (non-stress test)/OCT (oxytocin challenge test), perform delivery, newborn, and perineum care, provide breastfeeding guidance, uterine involution follow-up and physical assessment of the newborn.

Issues in global and country-wide developments and current practices in women?s health nursing are oriented to meet individual student needs.

In this course the student will examine the prevention of health problems within the framework of internal medical nursing through the promotion of healthy life-style behavior, early diagnosis, effective treatment and management of illness.