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  Course Description
Course Name : HEALTH LITERACY AND FIRST AID

Course Code : BEO102

Course Type : Compulsory

Level of Course : First Cycle

Year of Study : 1

Course Semester : Spring (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 5

Name of Lecturer(s) : Assoc.Prof.Dr. HATİCE KURDAK GÜRBÜZ

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Explains the components of healthy life and its components, health education, personal hygiene, and adequate and balanced nutrition
Calculates and evaluates body mass index
Knows the eating behavioral disorders
Knows the effects of alcohol, drugs, and tobacco on health
Defines the health responsibility
Defines healthy dressing, healthy work environment, balanced living and sleeping, and disease prevention
Realizes the importance of stress and time management in daily life
Knows the priority objectives and basic first aid practices
Explains the basic life support
Evaluates the status of patient/injured and the scene
Knows first aid practices for consciousness disorders, bleeding, shock, stabbing and cutting injuries, fractures and dislocations, burns, frostbite, heatstroke, convulsions, chest pain, intoxication
Knows and performs the general rules about transportation of sick/ injured

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : Students are expected to gain fundamental level of knowledge, awareness, skills and attitude about health literacy and first aid.

Course Contents : General rules about healthy life and its components, health education, personal hygiene, adequate and balanced diet, body weight evaluation, eating disorders, alcohol, drugs, tobacco and their effects on health, health responsibility, healthy dressing, well balanced life and sleep, stress and time management, healthy work environment, disease prevention, priority objectives and basic applications of first aid, basic life support, and evaluation of patient/injured and the scene, consciousness disorders, bleeding, shock, stabbing and cutting injuries, fractures and dislocations, burns, frostbite, heatstroke, convulsions, chest pain, poisoning.

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Healthy life and its components The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
2 Development of behavior, health education The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
3 Personal hygiene The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
4 Nutrition The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
5 Substance abuse and effects to health The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
6 Health responsibility The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
7 Disease prevention The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
8 Midterm exam The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
9 The priority objectives of first aid and basic applications The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
10 Basic life support The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
11 First aid applications for consciousness disorders, bleeding, shock, stabbing and cutting injuries The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
12 First aid applications for fractures and dislocations, burns, frostbite, heatstroke The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
13 First aid applications for convulsion, chest pain, poisoning The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
14 General rules of transporting sick/injured The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
15 General Revision The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method
16/17 Final exam The textbook and the relevant topics in suggested sources Power point presentation and interactive method


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  Basic Firs Aid. Bikem Süzen. Bedray Basım
 First Aid Handbook. Türkiye Kızılay Derneği. Ankara 2001
 Turkish Torasic Society Oficial Website. Smoking Task Force, ppt. link: http://www.toraks.org.tr/news.aspx?detail=901 (last access: 19 Ağustos 2013)
 Adolesan Healt and Development. T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı AÇSAP Genel Müdürlüğü, UNICEF, Aydoğdu Ofset.
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 100
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 0 0
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Gains the ability to apply the acquired information in the teaching methods lessons of physical education and sport to teaching steps. 1
2 Allows his students to assess their own development and uses this outcome to improve his teaching. Knows and applies the basic principles of the National Education System. 3
3 Gains the ability to have an adequate level of knowledge in the field of physical education and sport, and to transfer his information. Gains the ability to use the necessary instructional, communication and information technologies to improve the quality of teaching. 4
4 Directs students to sport branches according to their abilities. Organizes and executes sports events. Gains the necessary skills to prepare and manage April 23rd and May 19th fests. Aplies the right amount of sports load on students according to their ages and levels and uses athletic training methods 2
5 Develops the ability to express himself orally and in writing 2
6 Gains the ability to apply acquired knowledge in teaching profession lessons 4
7 Has an adequate level of foreign language to understand and follow the new knowledge about his profession and to communicate with their colleagues. 1
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 2 28
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 6 84
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 0 0 0
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 1 1
    Final Exam 1 1 1
Total Workload: 114
Total Workload / 25 (h): 4.56
ECTS Credit: 5