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Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
NURSING THEORIES -I	Second cycle	RSH 608		1	5.00	5.00	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	NonE
Language of instruction	Turkish
Coordinator	DOÇ. DR. MERAL BAYAT
Lecturer(s)	DOÇ. DR. MERAL BAYAT
Teaching assitant(s)	None
Mode of delivery	Presentation and participation with classroom discusstions
Course objective	The understandings nursing has gained through it’s scientific history are examined according to chronological development
Course description	This course examines nursing and relations of phylosophy of science in an abstract level

Course contents

1	Being a nurse scholar in the 21st century
2	Terminology of the course (global terms, middle terms and working terms)
3	Ways of knowing in nursing (empiric, aesthetic, ethical and personal konowing)
4	Being a scholar
5	Nursing science; grand theories, middle range theories and practice theories and their relations with nursing research.
6	Nursing science; grand theories, middle range theories and practice theories and their relations with nursing research.
7	Evaluations of theories
8	Medical model
9	Nursing paradigms/schools
10	Nursing paradigms/schools
11	Nursing paradigms/schools
12	Needs paradigm
13	Interaction paradigm
14	Assesment
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	Learn and use the course terminology
2	Recognize the ways of knowings that build the nursing konwledge
3	Understand the characteristics of a scholar
4	Learn the types of teories and understand the research-teory relationship
5	Examine the medical model and understand how it effects nursing
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*Contribution level of the course unit to the key learning outcomes

1	Gain fundamental knowledges of theoritical framework
2	Gain fundamental knowledges of practical framework
3	Tracing worldwide evolutions in theoritical and pratical frameweork
4	Acquire the ability of working in a teamwork
5	Gain the abilities of taking initiatives, improving creative solutions and considering analytically.
6	Gain the abilities of reaching to the people or groups who are in the theoritical or/and the pratical area.
7	Acquire the abilities of speaking a foreign language to reach to the people or groups who are in the theoritical or/and the pratical area.
8	Acquire the abilities of using some software or hardware in the area.
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	14	3	42
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	14	2	28
Homework	0	0	0
Presentation / seminar	2	15	30
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	0	0	0
Midterm exams	0	0	0
Project (term paper)	0	0	0
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	1	20	20
Final exam	1	2	2
Research	0	0	0
Total work load			122
ECTS			5.00

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Homework	2	40
Semester total		40
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	Meleis, A. Theoretical Nursing Development and Progress (5th Ed.) Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2012. Chinn, P. & Kramer, M., Theory and Nursing Integrated Knowledge Development, (5th Ed.) Mosby, St Louis, 1999. Marriner, A., Allıgood, M., Nursing Theorists and their Work (6th Ed.), Mosby, St. Louis, 2006 George, J., Nuraing Theories the Base for Professional Nursing Practice , (4th Ed.) Appleton and Lange, Norwalk, 1995. Parker, M., Smith, M., Nursing Teories and Practice (3rd Ed.), F.A. Davirs comp. Philadelphia, 2010. McKenna, H., Nursing Teories and Models, Routledge, London, 1997. Parker, M., Nursing Teories and Nursing Practice (2nd Ed.), F.A. Davirs comp. Philadelphia, 2005. Fawcett J., Contemporary Nursing Knowledge- Analysis and Evaluation of Nursing Models and theories (3rd ed.)F.A. Davis Company. Philadelphia., 2013.
Additional references	Sönmez, V., Bilim Felsefesi, Anı Yayıncılık, Ankara 2008 Atay, O., Bir Bilim Adamının Romanı Mustafa İnan, Bilgi Yayınevi, Ankara, 1975

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