Information Package / Course Catalogue
Ethical Practices in the Field of Mental Health
Course Code: HRS527
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

Develop viewpoint About Ethical concepts and rules, laws and regulations, ethical issues in the field of mental health to live in.

Course Content

This course includes associated with ethical and moral concepts, nursing approaches to ethical dilemmas, ethical decision-making process, the nurse's rights and responsibilities of psychiatric patients.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.To knowledge about The historical process of ethics in the field of mental health nursing.
2.To knowledge about ethics and ethics-related concepts, theories, principles.
3.To see ethical problems.
4.To use ethical decision-making process in ethical decision-making process
5.To realize Ethical dilemmas in the field of mental health and to do intervention required.
6.To interfere Misapplication in the field of psychiatry.
7.Keeping patients' rights in psychiatric patients.
8.Knowledge about Ethical legal issues in the field of mental health.
9.Contributing policy-making about Ethical legal issues in the field of mental health.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Birckhead LM. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. JB. Lippincott Company, Pennsylvania, 1989.
2.Carson VB, Arnold EN. Mental Health Nursing. Saunders Company, London, 1996.
3.Cook JJ, Fontaine KL. Essentials of Mental Health Nursing. Addison-Wesley, California, 1991.
4.Fortinash KM, Holoday-Worret PA. Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Mosby Company, Boston, 1996.
5.Janosik EH, Davies JL. Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. Second Edition, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, United States of America, 1989.
6.Adaptation and Growth Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing. Lippincott Company, Newyork, 1997.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
The historical process of ethics
Week 2 - Theoretical
The historical process of ethics in the field of mental health nursing
Week 3 - Theoretical
The importance of ethics in the field of mental health nursing
Week 4 - Theoretical
Ethics and ethics-related concepts
Week 5 - Theoretical
Ethical Principles, theories
Week 6 - Theoretical
Ethical Problems
Week 7 - Theoretical
Ethical decision-making process
Week 8 - Theoretical
Ethical issues in special circumstances related to mental health (Midterm Exam)
Week 9 - Theoretical
Ethical dilemmas in the field of mental health
Week 10 - Theoretical
Malpractice or negligence in the field of psychiatry
Week 11 - Theoretical
Patients' rights in psychiatric patients
Week 12 - Theoretical
Ethical legal issues in the field of mental health
Week 13 - Theoretical
Ethical practices of psychiatric nursing
Week 14 - Theoretical
Ethical practices of psychiatric nursing
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory142256
Midterm Examination210428
Final Examination118220
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)104
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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4
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4
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2
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