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Associate	TR-NQF-HE: Level 5	QF-EHEA: Short Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 5

General course introduction information

Course Code:

YSB102

Course Name:

Principles of Elderly Care 1

Course Semester:

Spring

Course Credits:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
1	8	5	8

Language of instruction:

Course Requisites:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Compulsory

Course Level:

Associate

TR-NQF-HE:5. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:Short Cycle

EQF-LLL:5. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator :

Dr.Öğr.Üyesi FUAT NİHAT ÖZAYDIN

Course Lecturer(s):

Assoc. Prof. ONUR YARAR

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

The purpose of this course is to make student learn and use the basic concepts and procedures regarding the gerontology practices and make them to gain the skills of providing planned patient care. Moreover it also aims to teach the biological risk factors in gerontology besides the methods of preventing infections, the practices that will help the elderly individuals to maintain their healthy physiological capacity, the importance of the activity of the elder people, principles and practices of making a bed, bed-related risk factors and follow-up, following up the basic vital signs, nutrition, personal self-care and the methods of delivering the medicines

Course Content:

• Decribe elderly hygiene, exposure to biological risk factors, infection control and vaccination,
• Describes the practices necessary for elderly self-sufficiency and opens bathing principles
• Dercribes Elderly exercise, necessary nutritional principles and ways of administration
• Displays vital signs, fever, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory tach and record
• Identify hot and cold applications in the elderly
• Oral, parenteral, intravenous infusion, blood transfusion applications can be evaluated
• Describe pruritus and pain control principles in the elderly.
• Discusses old palliative care and terminal care principles
• Bedding explains the principles of comfortable lying positions

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
1) •Describe elderly hygiene, exposure to biological risk factors, infection control and vaccination,
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
1) • Describes the practices necessary for elderly self-sufficiency and shows bathing principles
2) • Demonstrates elderly exercise, essential nutritional principles and practices
3) • Describes and displays vital signs, fever, pulse, blood pressure, respiratory tach and record
4) • Describes hot and cold applications in the elderly
5) • Oral, parenteral, intravenous infusion, blood transfusion applications can be evaluated
6) • Describe pruritus and pain control principles in the elderly. • Describe the old palliative care and terminal care principles. Explains the principles of comfortable lying positions and bedding
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Lesson Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Basic concepts in patient care,
2)	safe environment
3)	Findings of life
4)	hot cold application
5)	protection from infections, antisepsis, isolation,
6)	Massage, applications,
7)	bed construction, rotation of the patient in the bed and decibitum care,
8)	Biological risk factors and measures to be taken,
9)	drug applications and drug use.
10)	Fulfilling the elderly nutritional requirement, feeding by oral route and gavage,
11)	Pressure sickness and pain in the elderly, Basic rules in the implementation of elderly care practices,
12)	Palliative care and terminal period in elderly individuals,
13)	Providing mobility for the elderly
14)	Bedding, comfortable lying positions, bed-dependent elderly care

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Geriatrik Bakım İlkeleri Prof. Dr. Gülten Kaptan ©2012 \| Nobel Tıp Kitabevleri \| Published: September 2012 ISBN: 978-975-420-962-4
References:	Sağlık Uygulamalarında Temel Kavramlar ve Beceriler Yrd Doç Dr Fatma Akça Ay, Nobel Tıp Kitapevi, 2013, ISBN: 978-975-420-964-8

Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Program Outcomes
1) Works for individual professional development, knows and applies the issue of occupational health and safety, knows personal protective precautions and environmental safety rules,
2) Knows how to prepare / organize the working area and ensures that the elderly care service meets the quality standards
3) Helps the individual who receives the elderly care service to gain self-care knowledge and skills, Makes face and neck care, Makes hand-foot-nail care, Makes oral and dental care, Makes hair / beard care
4) Helps the elderly care person to have bathroom or bathing in the bed, Helps to change the clothes , Helps with toilet needs
5) Performs necessary procedures after self-care. Prepares the materials used during the applications according to the hygiene rules. Removes the personal waste that emerges during maintenance according to hygiene rules.
6) Changes the bedding of the person taking elderly care service and provides bedding arrangement, Provides the room arrangement, Takes measures against accidents and injuries in the living area
7) Provides and/or supports oral feeding, Performs necessary procedures after oral feeding
8) Provides mobility of the elderly person, Follows body integrity and bed wounds, Implements the measures necessary to prevent bed wounds
9) Provides participation in social activities, Supports participation in occupational activities, Provides participation in recommended physical activities, Provides participation in proposed mental activities, Supports adaptation process, Facilitates effective communication
10) Supports the use of prescription medication (except for red and green prescriptions) for elderly when there is no health professional, Supports health professionals in the treatment of acute and chronic conditions, Monitor old person receiving treatment

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Works for individual professional development, knows and applies the issue of occupational health and safety, knows personal protective precautions and environmental safety rules,	5
2)	Knows how to prepare / organize the working area and ensures that the elderly care service meets the quality standards	5
3)	Helps the individual who receives the elderly care service to gain self-care knowledge and skills, Makes face and neck care, Makes hand-foot-nail care, Makes oral and dental care, Makes hair / beard care	5
4)	Helps the elderly care person to have bathroom or bathing in the bed, Helps to change the clothes , Helps with toilet needs	5
5)	Performs necessary procedures after self-care. Prepares the materials used during the applications according to the hygiene rules. Removes the personal waste that emerges during maintenance according to hygiene rules.	5
6)	Changes the bedding of the person taking elderly care service and provides bedding arrangement, Provides the room arrangement, Takes measures against accidents and injuries in the living area	5
7)	Provides and/or supports oral feeding, Performs necessary procedures after oral feeding	5
8)	Provides mobility of the elderly person, Follows body integrity and bed wounds, Implements the measures necessary to prevent bed wounds	5
9)	Provides participation in social activities, Supports participation in occupational activities, Provides participation in recommended physical activities, Provides participation in proposed mental activities, Supports adaptation process, Facilitates effective communication	5
10)	Supports the use of prescription medication (except for red and green prescriptions) for elderly when there is no health professional, Supports health professionals in the treatment of acute and chronic conditions, Monitor old person receiving treatment	5

Learning Activity and Teaching Methods

Field Study
Lesson
Q&A / Discussion
Internship/Onsite Practice

Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria

Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing)
Oral Examination
Homework
Application
Staj/ Yerinde Uygulama Değerlendirmesi

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Application	10	% 80
Final	1	% 20
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 80
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 20
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Grading

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	4	8	32
Application	10	8	80
Study Hours Out of Class	14	4	56
Presentations / Seminar	10	1	10
Homework Assignments	14	2	28
Midterms	4	1	4
Paper Submission	1	1	1
Final	1	1	1
Total Workload			212