SURGICAL DISEASES NURSING
The Surgical Diseases Nursing master's program with and without thesis, which is affiliated with Istanbul Aydın University Graduate Education Institute, covers nursing practices and the education and training process for care before, during and after surgery, and the duration of the program is 2 years. In addition to education and training focusing on the surgical process, this master's program enables graduate students to specialize in this field and plays an active role in their ability to take part in education, research and administrative work in the field of surgical nursing. In this context, the program covers theory and lectures, research and laboratory applications in line with the education plan. In addition to specialty courses related to surgical nursing, students also take courses in research, the conceptual framework of nursing, comorbid diseases, research in nursing and biostatistics.
Nurses who specialize in surgery can work in hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, and ambulatory care centers. They can work in operating rooms, surgical clinics and intensive care units, which are advanced care units of fully equipped hospitals. They can work as circulation and scrub nurses in the operating room and become educators in the mentioned units.
Students studying in the thesis master's program are also trained in subjects such as research methods, article writing, conducting studies and being a research executive, and when they graduate, they will have gained the necessary knowledge and skills in these areas. Most of the classes are held in the evening hours, so many conveniences are offered, such as taking lessons from the program outside working hours. It is an advanced training program that all health professionals who have graduated from the nursing department and are eligible to apply for the program can easily benefit from.