Graduate Education Institute · Internal Medicine Nursing · Master
ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Tez Danışmanı Rukiye PINAR BÖLÜKTAŞ
Course Objective
The objective is to provide enough knowledge and skills in geriatric nursing, to define aging theories and concepts, process-related problems, physiological and psychological changes, to learn appropriate nursing interventions, to explain legal and ethical dimensions in terms of elderly care.
Course Content
Includes the elderly population and their problems in the world and in our country, health problems evolving and changing together with aging process, and approaches to this problems, healthy aging and improving quality of life during old ages and elderly nursing care
Required Resources
1. Cobbs E L, Duthie E H, Murphy J B: Geriatrics Review Syllabus. Kendall/Hunt Publishing. New York, 2001. 2. LeMone P, Burke K: Medical Surgical Nursing. Fourth Ed.Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2008. 3. Roach S: Introductory Gerontological Nursing. Lippincott, Philadelphia, 2001. 4. Smeltzer SC, Bare BG:Medical Surgical Nursing. Lippincott, 9th Edition, 2000. 5. Eliopoulos C, Gerontological Nursing, Lippinctt Williams&Wilkins, 7 th.ed, 2010.
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Recommended Resources
6. Wallace M, Grossman S. C., Gerontological Nurse Certification Review, 2008
Course Learning Outcomes
- 1.Know facts about aging, aging theories, and physical and psychosocial changes related to elderly
- Know the politics of the elderly population in the world and in Turkey, can make a comparative analysis of these policies
- Effective nursing care planning, implementation and evaluation
- To be able to follow the researches made in geriatrics
- To know the basic concepts of geriatric nursing.
- To be able to gain sufficient knowledge and opinions about the planning and execution of the researches which will be important in the development of geriatric nursing
- Transfer the theoretical knowledge about Geriatrics to the care of elderly person
- To be able to gain knowledge and skills about continuous maintenance
- To be able to gain necessary theoretical knowledge and application skills about geriatric individual
- Conduct a comprehensive geriatric assessment
- identify and assess common problems in elderly including sarcopenia,pressure sores,falls, delirium, sleeping problems and incontinence as weel as neclect and abuse; take precautions to prevent those problems, and make interventions to improve those problems.
- To be able to work in coordination with the health team who provide care for elderly individuals and to provide effective communication
- To be able to comprehend basic and current information about care of elderly person
- Know the problems that may arise in elderly patients who are in intensive care and take necessary precautions.
Core Area Distribution
(31) Social and Behavioural Science%40 (72) Health%60
Teaching Methods
ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionGroup StudyBrain StormingSelf study
Assessment & Evaluation
HomeworkPerformance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / ThesisTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)
ECTS / Workload
| Activity | Quantity | Duration (h) | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including Exam Week) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Out of Class Study Period | 16 | 6 | 96 |
| Midterm | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Assignment | 1 | 40 | 40 |
| Practice | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Course Schedule
| Week | Subject | Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facts about old age | Arıoğlu MN (Ed) (2006) Geriatric and Gerontology Book. Medical and Nobel, Ankara. |
| 2 | Aging Theories | Arıoğlu MN (Ed) (2006) Geriatric and Gerontology Book. Medical and Nobel, Ankara. |
| 3 | Physical, psycho-social changes in old age | Karadakovan A (2014). Elderly Health and Care. Güneş Bookstore, Ankara. |
| 4 | Policies towards aging in the world | Arıoğlu MN (Ed) (2006) Geriatric and Gerontology Book. Medical and Nobel, Ankara. |
| 5 | Policies towards aging in Turkey | Arıoğlu MN (Ed) (2006) Geriatric and Gerontology Book. Medical and Nobel, Ankara. Pınar, R. & Sert, H. "How should Turkey's old care policy be?", Hemar-G, 2, 46-55, (2009). |
| 6 | Advanced geriatric evaluation 1 | Arıoğlu MN (Ed) (2006) Geriatric and Gerontology Book. Medical and Nobel, Ankara. |
| 7 | Advanced geriatric evaluation 2 | Arıoğlu MN (Ed) (2006) Geriatric and Gerontology Book. Medical and Nobel, Ankara. |
| 8 | Midterm | All references and course notes |
| 9 | Sarcopenia, and pressure wounds in the elderly | Kurtuluş Tosun Z & Bölüktaş Pınar R. Pressure sores prevalence and affecting factors in elderly patients in intensive care units. Intensive Care Nursing Journal, 19 (2): 43-53 (2015). Pınar R (1998). Pressure sores and prevention. MÜ, Teknik Eğitim Fakültesi Basımevi. Pınar R, Karan MA (2008). Pressure Sores. İçinde: Geriatry Textbook, Eds; Mas R, Isık T, Karan MA, Beger T, Akman T, Unal T. Fersa Matbaacılık, s. 1347-1378. Kurtuluş Tosun Z (2010). Current Situation Related to Pressure Sores and Pressure Reduced Vehicles / Systems in Adult Intensive Care Units in Istanbul, Marmara University Institute of Health Sciences, Doctoral Thesis |
| 10 | Incontinence in the elderly | Karadakovan A (2014). Elderly Health and Care. Güneş Bookstore, Ankara. |
| 11 | Fall and prevention in the elderly | Karadakovan A (2014). Elderly Health and Care. Güneş Bookstore, Ankara. |
| 12 | Elderly patients in intensive care units | Journal of Intensive Care Nursing, Special Number of Elderly Patients in Intensive Care. 19 (2), (2015). |
| 13 | Sleep problems in the elderly | Karadakovan A (2014). Elderly Health and Care. Güneş Bookstore, Ankara. |
| 14 | Delirium in the elderly | Bölüktaş Pinar R. Strategies for the evaluation, prevention and management of delirium in elderly patients in intensive care units. Intensive Care Nursing Review, 19 (2): 68-79 (2015). |
| 15 | Elderly neglect and abuse | Karadakovan A (2014). Elderly Health and Care. Güneş Bookstore, Ankara. |
| 16 | Evaluation of the course | None |