Information Package / Course Catalogue
Newborn Nursing
Course Code: ÇSH631
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

This course aims to gain to students advanced knowledge and skills about newborns health diagnostics and advanced nursing care management.

Course Content

This course includes medical diagnostics and characteristics of newborns, neonatal problems and principles of neonatal nursing care, current strategies for the care of the newborn.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.To discuss the newborn nursing in our country and the world.
2.To make the holistic health assessment of newborn and to interpret.
3.To discuss newborn care needs.
4.To discuss principles of newborn diagnosis, treatment and nursing care.
5.To discuss the evidence-based practices in newborn nursing .
Recommended or Required Reading
1.curley MAQ, Moloney-Harmon PA, Critical Care Nursing of Infants and Children, Second Edition, W.B. Saunders Company, 2001
2.Karaböcüoğlu M, Köroğlu TF, Çocuk Yoğun Bakım Esaslar Ve Uygulamalar, 1. Baskı, İstanbul Medikal Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2008.
3.Şahinoğlu AH, Yoğun Bakım Sorunları ve Tedavileri, 3. Baskı, Nobel Tıp Kitapevleri, 2011.
4.Temel Neonatoloji ve Hemşirelik İlkeleri (2008), Editörler: T. Dağoğlu, G. Görak, Yenilenmiş 2. Baskı, Nobel Tıp Kitabevi, İstanbul.
5.Wong DL, et al. (2012). Wong’s Essentials of Pediatric Nursing. Mosby, 9th ed., St. Louis.
6.Hockenberry, M.J., Wilson, D. Wong’s Nursing Care of Infant and Children, 8th Edition, Mosby Elsevier Inc., St. Louis-Missouri, 2007.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Introduction: Newborn Nursing in the world and in our country
Week 2 - Theoretical
Evaluation of Newborn Health
Week 3 - Theoretical
Newborn resuscitation
Week 4 - Theoretical
Transport of Newborn
Week 5 - Theoretical
Fluid-electrolyte and heat balance
Week 6 - Theoretical
Newborn Nutrition
Week 7 - Theoretical
Hospital Infections in Neonatal Units
Week 8 - Theoretical
Newborn Screening
Week 9 - Theoretical
Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures in the Neonatal Unit
Week 10 - Theoretical
Pain in the Newborn
Week 11 - Theoretical
Preparation of discharge from hospital
Week 12 - Theoretical
Home care of newborn
Week 13 - Theoretical
Evidence-based practice in neonatal nursing
Week 14 - Theoretical
Ethics in Newborn Nursing
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory143270
Assignment230264
Term Project18210
Midterm Examination110212
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)156
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
PÇ-11
PÇ-12
PÇ-13
OÇ-1
5
OÇ-2
5
OÇ-3
5
OÇ-4
5
OÇ-5
5
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