NURSING

Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University, Faculty of Health Sciences Nursing Department is a program with 240 ECTS and normally takes 4 academic years, consisting of 8 terms, to graduate from. The curriculum has been prepared in accordance with the National Core Education Program for Nursing which was prepared for the purpose of nationwide standardization of nursing education, with “Regulation of Defining Minimum Conditions for Training Programs of Doctors of Medicine, Nurses, Midwives, Dentists, Veterinaries, Pharmacists, and Architects”, which was published on the official journal numbered 26775 and dated 02.02.2008, and with the criteria of the European Union.

The program which is student centered enables students to be knowledged and skilled in various fields by giving them the possibility of taking selective courses. In addition, students are encouraged and supported to participate in national and international scientific activities and student mobility programs.

Our graduates can serve in many fields of medicine; at health care centers such as public hospitals, university hospitals, private hospitals, policlinics, community health centers, primary care centers, chronic and long term care centers, medical training and research centers, rehabilitation centers, health care, rehabilitation and training centers for children and elderly people, hand surgery centers, nursing homes, dialysis centers, health care units of schools/factories/banks/ municipalities/ private or public organizations.

Nursing students have benefits including to; 

• take a free foreing language course,
• take a minor or double mayor program,

attend national and international exchange programs

The most frequently used Instructional Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Expression
• Question-Answer
• Discussion
• Exercise and Practice
• Presentation
• Guided Practice
• Role Playing
• Group Study
• Simulation
• Brain Storming
• Six Hat
• Case Study
• Experiment - Test / Lab/ Workshop / Field Practice
• Self study
• Problem Solving
• Project Based Learning (Including Field Work)

The most frequently used Evaluation Methods of the educational programs of Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University are given below.

• Testing (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
• Oral Exam
• Homework
• Project / Design
• Portfolio
• Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis

This is a first cycle degree program in the science of Nursing (240 ECTS). 

You will be awarded, on successful completion of the programme and gain competencies, a degree of Bachelor in Nursing.

Students must comply with the legal and academic requirements to access the studies in The Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University according to the process established by the ÖSYM (Higher Education Council Student Selection and Placement Centre) regulations. Students who have started studies in other universities within or outside of the country may apply for their recognition. The recognition record is unique for each student and therefore the procedure is carried out accordingly before the start of each academic year. More information about general admission requirements can be found in the catalogue of Information on the Institution.

Under an established exchanges program or one approved by the University, exchange students from abroad may be accepted for studies on the courses taught in English. Or, if they are confident in Turkish, they may then enrol any courses, running in Turkish, shown on the Course Structure diagram.

Students must obtain a grade point average of at least 2.00 out of 4.00 and successfully pass all courses on the programme (equivalent to a total of 240 ECTS).

Procedures to recognise prior learning (RPL), including non-formal and informal learning, is in an early stage of development in Turkey and there is no a comprehensive and enabling legislative framework at the national level in place yet. However, within the institutional autonomy respected there are some implementations at the institutional level for allocating credits towards exemption from some programme requirements on the basis of RPL. This is particularly a wide spread exercise implemented in cases that students, having a certain level of knowledge, skills and competencies in relation to fields such as foreign languages and computer use, prior to admission to the university, are subjected to an examination and if they are found successful to a certain degree required by the programme they have been admitted to, they are exempted from the relevant course units of the course programme. RPL is also practiced for students who wish to transfer their studies to the equal or an upper levels at an another institution including those from abroad in the same or similar fields. In such cases, students, having received some course units in a previous programme they had studied and having been successful, may be  exempted from the same or similar course units of the programmes they are admitted to upon the approval the adaptation committees of the programmes.

Such procedures of recognition are also used comprehensively in practice at our university. The general arrangements for the recognition ofsuch implementations are outlined in the relevant section of our Education and Examination Regulations, Rules & Regulations for Graduate Programmes and that of Regulations for Lateral Transfer of Students.

Nurses work in a range of settings including hospitals, rehabilitation centres, health care centers, nursing homes, school health centers, care and education centers for special groups (children, elderly, handicapped etc.), occupational health centers, home care companies, emergency care services at both govermental and private instituitons. They can work as a clinician, educator, manager or coordinator besides working academically at universities.

The students graduating from this program may apply to second cycle programs.