| Establishment |
| Iğdır University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing started education in 2020 |
| Degree Earned |
| The Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing provides undergraduate education and graduates receive the title of "Nurse". |
| Degree Level (Associate Degree, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctorate Degree) |
| Licence |
| Acceptance and Registration Conditions |
| Students of the Republic of Turkey who want to enter this department must pass the Higher Education Entrance Exam conducted by the Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). ÖSYM places students according to the exam results and students' preferences. Foreign students must pass the Foreign Student Exam (YÖS) and meet the foreign student registration requirements. Girls and boys who have graduated from high school or equivalent schools can apply to this department. |
| Rules on Recognition of Prior Learning (formal, informal, non-formal) |
| In higher education institutions, recognition of previous formal (formal) learning is carried out vertically, horizontally and within-university transfers within the scope of the "Regulation on the Principles of Transfer, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Credit Transfer between Associate and Undergraduate Programs in Higher Education Institutions" determined by the Council of Higher Education. Since the recognition process of non-formal certificate-based or experience-based (informal and non-formal) learning outside of formal education institutions in Turkey has not yet been put into practice, recognition of previous learning is being initiated. If students who have registered to other higher education universities in Turkey or abroad where they have previously studied apply within the first week, their credit and grade transfer requests are evaluated by the relevant education unit's board of directors and a decision is made once and covering the entire education. |
| Qualification Conditions and Rules |
| Students who graduate from nursing programs can work in various areas of the health sector (preventive, therapeutic, etc.) as well as in nursing and health-related educational institutions and academic fields. |
| Program Profiles |
| Iğdır University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing has started accepting students in the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. Our department, which provides four-year undergraduate education, aims to provide education by approaching the current nursing education in our country with a different understanding. As in all professions that work with people and focus on people, the knowledge of social sciences, behavioral sciences and basic medical sciences is used in nursing. In addition, today, the nursing discipline is progressing towards developing its own theories and becoming a professional. For this purpose, it aims to train individuals who can look at health problems holistically, adopt humanistic values and produce scientific knowledge-based solutions. In this context, the vision of our department is to be a leader at the national level by providing continuous development in nursing education, and its mission is to train leader nurses who combine scientific knowledge, ethical knowledge and a humanistic approach and who can create changes in the field of health care in the future. In line with these views, there are differences that distinguish our curriculum from other nursing education programs. One of these is that it has created a mixture of empirical, aesthetic and ethical ways of knowing that form the basis of nursing with an educational sciences model. The second difference is the compulsory and elective courses that we have carefully placed in the program in order to eliminate the lack of self-care that we observe in our society and the deficiencies in nurse-patient communication that we generally observe in our colleagues. The third important difference of the program is that nursing care is based on the understandings of nursing care theorists instead of the medical model. We expect this educational program, which is a first in our country with these features, to be an example and a reference. |
| Graduates' Employment Profiles (with examples) |
| Students who graduate from nursing programs can work in various areas of the health sector (preventive, therapeutic, etc.) as well as in nursing and health-related educational institutions and academic fields. They can work as clinical nurses, clinic managers, workplace nurses, school health nurses, community health nurses, and hospital head nurses in private or public health institutions. After graduation, they can work as academicians by completing scientific expertise and postgraduate education. |
| Transition to Advanced Programs |
| Students who graduate from the training programs can work in various areas of the health sector (preventive, therapeutic, etc.) as well as in nursing and health-related educational institutions and academic fields. |
| Exams, Assessment and Evaluation |
| Each student must register for classes at the beginning of the semester and attend at least 70% of the classes and 80% of the practical sessions in order to take the final exam. Students are subjected to at least 1 midterm and 1 final exam for each course. The contribution of the midterm exam (the scores obtained from assessment tools such as homework, laboratory exam, quiz, etc. can also be taken into consideration as the midterm grade) to the success grade is 40%, and the contribution of the final exam is 60%. All exams are evaluated out of 100 points. In order to be evaluated, the final grade must be 60 or higher. Students who receive one of the letter grades (AA), (BA), (BB), (CB) and (CC) in a course are considered to have passed that course. |
| Graduation Requirements |
| Successfully completing all courses in the program (total 240 ECTS) and having a weighted grade point average of at least 2.00 out of 4.00 are required qualifications for graduation. |
| Working Method (Full Time, e-learning) |
| Full-Time |
| Address and Contact Information (Program Director, ECTS/DS Coordinator) |
| Department Head: Asst. Prof. Necmettin İŞCİ, Iğdır University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing. Karaağaç Campus Tel: 0476 2230010-4301 |
| Department Opportunities |
| The nursing department carries out its educational activities in the classroom and practice laboratory located in the Faculty of Health Sciences building in the Karaağaç Campus in the city center. The educational activities in our department are carried out by 3 Assistant Professors, 1 Lecturer, 3 Research and academic staff from other faculties and colleges within the university. The courses in our department are given in 80-person capacity lecture halls and 56-person capacity classrooms equipped with projection devices; 1 simulation laboratory and 2 practice laboratories are used. Our students can benefit from the internet laboratory, which is open throughout the day, free of charge. There is also a cafeteria in the faculty building |
