Programme Description
Obstetrics and Gynecology Nursing Master’s Programme with Thesis aims to educate graduate students who are equipped with advanced knowledge and skills in their field, who can include evidence-based nursing approaches to care processes, and who are open to research and scientific studies. The main objective of the programme is to train graduates who have the skills of accessing, presenting, sharing and discussing information; who are open to innovations, who can produce solutions by applying current analytical tools in the face of problems, who have professional and ethical values, and who have strong communication skills. It is aimed to provide the specialist women’s health and diseases nurse with up-to-date knowledge and skills in the care of women’s health overview, pregnancy process and self-care, fetal evaluation, risky conditions related to pregnancy, conditions that make pregnancy risky, normal and risky delivery, normal and risky puerperium, diagnosis and treatment methods in gynaecology, regulation of fertility, sexual health, structural problems of reproductive organs, functional problems of reproductive organs, adolescent and menopause and gynaecological tumours.
Students with a bachelor’s degree in nursing, midwifery or health officer can apply to the master’s programme. Students from different professions other than these programmes are not accepted.
Graduates of the master’s programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing with thesis work as ‘specialist nurses’ in public and private sector institutions and organisations. In addition, they can work as ‘lecturers’ in foundation and state universities if they meet other academic requirements.
Programme Structure
The master’s programme in Obstetrics and Gynaecology Nursing with thesis consists of 10 courses with a total of 28 credits, two seminar courses and two thesis studies. Seminar courses and thesis study are non-credit and graded as successful or unsuccessful. The duration of the master’s programme with thesis is at least four and at most six semesters. The scientific preparation programme is not taken into account in the duration calculations. The semesters in which the student is not enrolled are included in the maximum period.