Vocational School of Health Sciences

First and Emergency Aid

Duration 2 Years

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About the Program

First and Emergency Aid Technician training is 2 (two) years at associate degree level. The prospective students must fulfill the 233 criteria stated in the ÖSYM Registration and Reference Manual (being 1.65 m for male students, 1.60 m for female students in height; being no more than 5 kg or 15 kg less than the body height stated in weight; having the body and physical competence to work in a two-person team for rescue and transportation, carrying of the patient with the teammate). Education is provided in both theory and practice. Practical trainings are carried out in collaboration with the relevant units of the health institutions (112 Ambulance Stations and Emergency Services). In addition, everyone who graduated from the department must obtain a driver's license. Students graduating with the title of Health Technician by completing all of the occupational practices and internships in the program can work in pre-hospital emergency care services and other emergency services.

Education Opportunities

Cyprus International University have, so far, trained First and Emergency Aid Technicians who have an important place in Emergency Health Services; are able to do all types of medical interventions to the patient; are healthy and powerful; are able to make quick and accurate decisions; can use their hands and fingers skillfully; have strong sense of responsibility; establish good rapport with others. These are ensured through the use of state-of-the-art practice models and field instructors throughout their education.

Career Areas

Those who graduate from the program receive their associate degree diploma and take the title of "First and Emergency Aid Technician". Thus, they can work in emergency units of hospitals, 112 centers and stations, ambulance services. First and emergency aid technicians work in university and state hospitals, private health institutions' ambulance services and workplace emergency aid units. First and emergency aid technicians can also work as health personnel in emergency aid and patient transport ambulances, call-waiting staff in command control centers and health personnel in hospital emergency services. Those who successfully complete the associate degree program of the first and emergency aid, can make vertical transition to Emergency Aid and Disaster Management, Health Institutions Management or Nursing degree programs on the condition that they are successful in the Vertical Transfer Examination (DGS) organized by OSYM. They can also apply to distance education of the same departments without examination.

Contact

Vocational School of Health Sciences
Çevik Uraz Center, CU206
Tel: +90 392 671 1111 Extension: 2251
School E-mail: secretary-vhs@ciu.edu.tr
Director E-mail: aozada@ciu.edu.tr

Compulsory Courses

First Semester

BASIC ANATOMY

Course code

ANTM107

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Introduction to anatomy, bone, general information about joint, terminology (anatomical terms), viscerocranium, neurocranium, upper extremity bones, lower extremity bones, columna vertabralis joints, muscles (facial muscles, front neck muscles, lateral muscles, superficial back muscles, chest muscles, abdominal muscles, upper extremity muscles, lower extremity muscles) MSS (brain hemispheres, cranial nerves) PSS (plexus cervicalis, plexus brachialis, plexus lumbalis, plexus sacralis, plexus cocygeus). peripheral nervous system, autonomic nervous system, celebral cortex, cerebrospinal fluid circulation, cerebral artex, yen and pathology, cranial nerves, dirensephenol pathologies, brainstem, serebellum and pathologies, limbic system. Sensory organs of circulatory system, respiratory system, digestive system, excretion system. Structure of endocrine system and male and female reproductive systems.

READING AND WRITING SKILLS-I

Course code

ENGL141

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This course aims to develop students' listening, speaking, reading - writing and study skills. The course provides students with the opportunity to develop their communication skills through controlled activities and to equip students with the basic study skills necessary to follow the curriculum of English. This course also provides students with the opportunity to process the newly acquired knowledge and to develop their ability to ask questions about how to apply the new knowledge to new situations and ask them to think critically. In addition, this course will enable students to learn about the different strategies required to review the various reading pieces, such as finding the main idea and distinguishing the details from the main idea.

EMERGENCY PATIENT CARE-I

Course code

FAID105

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Starting with the recognition of human health and vital functions; Description of first aid and the importance of the task is targeted to give our students the principles and responsibilities. Principle of operation of the system in our body, when the body can disrupt the good teaching changes in these systems; wellbeing, medical intervention is necessary to ensure the continued will gain them. Most often they will encounter throughout their working lives; especially in trauma cases, cardiovascular system diseases, respiratory system diseases and nervous system to recognize the disease, evaluation and necessary first intervention is targeted to be at a level to make. The basic steps in first aid and emergency applications, the first assessment techniques, apply the second evaluation of technical and medical emergency, applications will be able to provide emergency care qualifications.

FREE ELECTIVE

Course code

FREEXX1

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INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTERS

Course code

ITEC110

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The aim of this course is to give the students an understanding of the fundamentals of computers such as the basic components of the computers, input, output, storage devices and processing as well as application and system software, utility programs and internet basics. At the end of this course students will be familiar with the computer terminology and able to use the word processing and spreadsheet programs as well as efficient internet usage. General presentation of computer technologies, Windows operating system and applications in the Microsoft Office packageWord, Excel, Access and Power Point , softwares used in pharmacies, drawing for academic purposes and web-based method of screening of literature are also covered.

BASIC PHYSIOLOGY

Course code

PHYO101

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Basic concepts and terms in physiology, cell functions, respiratory mechanics, transportation of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide and function, heart function , blood and lymph circulation, fluid-electrolyte , central nervous system, peripheral nervous system, digestive system, endocrine system , sense organs , excretory system. The sum of chemical events that destroyed the large molecules composed of small molecules and large molecules from small molecules. Intrinsic or external electrical signals, hormone and act to respond detect changes glands (all structural levels) = the entire body as a whole, in an organ level, to act as a component of the cell level or the cell numbers of cells or of substances between the cells and increase in the volume, The differentiation of the cells for a specific task, the formation of new cells or individuals.

TURKISH LANGUAGE

Course code

TREG100

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This course examines basic areas of language and expression. In the first half of the course, the theoretical approach to language is formed and the spelling rules of the Turkish language are studied. In the latter part of the course, language and narrative errors are studied together with editing. In the second half of the course, formal writing, curriculum vitae, petition, evaluation of the columns in terms of language and style, types of written expression and practice; Turkish production and application of shooting attachments; Turkish grammar structure; It is aimed to teaching subjects like phonetics of Turkish to students.

TURKISH

Course code

TURK100

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This course provides an orientation to modern Turkish language for foreign students who wish to communicate in this language for their needs. It mainly focuses on the differences between Turkish and English Alphabets, especially the sounds and the letters which are not included in the English alphabet (i.e. Turkish letters ç-ğ-i-ö-ş-ü). In addition, basic grammar and sentence structure forms in Turkish are practised. The required grammar and vocabulary will also be developed through their adaptation to daily situations in contexts such as introducing yourselves, greeting, talking about the things they possess by using possessive adjectives, forming positive, negative and question sentences by using present simple, telling the time, talking about their own timetables, using demonstrative pronouns when describing the place of objects and becoming familiar with vocabulary related to family members.

UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE

Course code

UNIEXX1

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UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE

Second Semester

READING AND WRITING SKILLS-II

Course code

ENGL142

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This course is the continuation of ENG 101. The course aims to improve students' listening, speaking, reading, writing and working skills. In the course, students are guided in writing compare and contrast essays using Venn diagram. In addition, the aim of the course is to learn the necessary conjunctions for composition writing. In addition, the students will be able to write a four-part critical composition by learning the difference between ideas and factual real sentences and how to write the opposing opinion and sentences used to refute it. Thus, the students will be able to distinguish between the compare and contrast essay and discursive essay. Students will also be able to make presentations by using presentation techniques. In addition, this course aims to summarize the reading pieces of the students and to use the strategies of reading and to draw conclusions and meanings using their reading skills.

TRAUMA

Course code

FAID102

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Observed in our medical education and training to observe the target body trauma, the trauma is located to create the evaluating examination and treatment information. system diseases they might encounter outside the most common cases of trauma patients is our goal to ensure that qualified medical staff to recognize and apply treatment as a whole. Extensive trauma as our intervention targets on specific trauma and regional trauma, especially the General Approach to Trauma Case Implement Emergency Care to apply external bleeding, apply emergency care of soft tissue injuries, facial and emergency care in the Neck Injury, Emergency Care to spinal cord injuries, the chest injury Apply Emergency Care, Emergency Care to abdominal injury Apply Emergency Care pelvic injury, Apply Emergency Care Extremity Injuries, Apply Emergency Care to Specialty trauma cases, applying maintenance in environmental emergency, applying maintenance in environmental emergency in burns implement Emergency Care

EMERGENCY PATIENT CARE-II

Course code

FAID106

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Education and training forms the basis for human health and well-being in the light of what has been learned about the continuation; first aid students gain perspective with our patients and to consolidate their knowledge with existing applications and with other systems (digestive system, urinary system, reproductive system, skeletal muscle system) is planned to be introduced. It said body and system of emergency Related to become familiar with, is aimed to improve the examination and intervention skills. Existing systems and diseases as well as trauma situations; recognition of other vehicles and supplies of the vital functions with more materials to be used while treatment is provided to develop practical skills. Making their first scheduled practice time and emergency situations in case they encounter during their observation and its applications are aimed to be equipped.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES-I

Course code

FAID110

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In this course it is aiming to give an idea with health worker candidates, the existing health care system, functioning, their health care system in place and to gain awareness of the importance to the students. The best way to fulfill the goals of our course with information leading to their duties throughout their lives; Health Services to Assess Emergency Medical Services to Evaluate in Turkey Emergency Medical Services Related Legislation Evaluate the Emergency Health Services Organization Structure in Turkey Assess Ambulance and Emergency Health Tools Assess Discrimination by ambulance Hardware in Turkey, Emergency Service Building in Turkey and Functioning of the Assess Forms in Emergency Health Services in Turkey Using, Evaluating the Authority and Responsibilities of the Paramedic, Making a Task Organization, Providing Self-Security, Providing Patient / Injured Safety, Ambulance s and Emergency Health Services and to transmit these information to the students.

AREA ELECTIVE

Course code

FAIDXX1

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HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION

Course code

HIST100

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The aim of this course is to outline the development of civilizations in the course of history. It firstly focuses on the concepts such as “Civilization”, “Prehistoric”, and “Historic” and on the factors forcing the emergence of the first civilizations. As well as examining the prehistoric periods and their characteristics in the course of human life since the first appearance of human beings on earth, the course mainly focuses on the early civilizations, namely the Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Aegean, Classical Greek, Hellenistic, Indian, Chinese and Roman Civilizations. Political, social, economical, cultural, intellectual, philosophical and scientific aspects in these entities are also examined in this course.

MODERN TURKISH HISTORY

Course code

TARH100

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In this course, Ottoman state and society, factors causing the collapse of the state; Ottoman modernization; Tripoli and Balkan Wars, World War I, Mudros Armistice and Sevres Agreement; parties and associations, the national resistance movement led by Mustafa Kemal, the Havza and Amasya Circulars, the Congresses, the National Pact, the Turkish Grand National Assembly; the rebellions, the regular army and the War of Independence; the Mudanya Armistice, the Lausanne Peace Treaty; Revolution in the political field, secularization of the state and society, abolition of the sultanate, declaration of the republic, abolition of the caliphate; 1921 and 1924 constitutions, constitutional changes; Sheikh Said Rebellion; Multi-party experience, secularization and modernization in law, nationalization and secularization in education, Kemalizm and 6 principles, Turkish foreign policy(1923-1938) are covered.

Third Semester

SUMMER TRAINING

Course code

FAID200

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In the First and Emergency Aid Programme, students receive theoretical education on first aid and salvage work, ambulance training, emergency health care services, emergency patient care, reading ECG results, emergency bleeding control, intravenous cannulation and application of fundamental medications in emergency care. Students will apply these theoretical information gained in the first and second semesters into practice by doing internship for 21 working days in the first and emergency aid services of either governmental or private sector heath institutions located in North Cyprus and Turkey.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES-II

Course code

FAID203

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RESUSITATION

Course code

FAID205

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Our Beginning with the definition of basic life support, in order to perform first aid and emergency interventions under the case of life-threatening; by evaluating the vital functions of the cases, airline, aims at ensuring the circulation and respiration integrity. Application of our cases with the practical skills and goals had been obtained in practice revived in the laboratory, Basic Life Support, the airway opening techniques, intubation, Provide respiratory support, Tools for Oxygen Therapy Oxygen Therapy, First Aid in solid suffocation and emergency care adults in solid suffocation first aid and emergency Bakım- children, first aid and emergency care baby on solid suffocation, the Adult Basic Life Support, Basic Life Support Children, Baby Basic Life Support, defibrillation and cardioversion.

EMERGENCY PATIENT CARE-III

Course code

FAID207

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Avoid our students from first and emergency aid to provide basic life support to reinforce the information they learned during training, as well as other encounters will continue its entirety will be taught the necessary health status and treatment protocols to be applied in this case. Treatment protocols and apply a step in first aid will be given their theoretically and practically to be familiar with the skills and knowledge about assessment and specific cases of patients. Diseases Evaluate Implement Emergency Care in Psychiatric Disorders, Pregnancy, Helping Normal Birth, Postpartum, Newborn, Urgent Care to apply obstetric emergency, apply care in gynecological emergency, pediatric patients to evaluate, Apply Emergency Care to pediatric patients, geriatric patients Evaluate geriatric patients to emergency care, oncology emergency care to patients apply

FREE ELECTIVE

Course code

FREEXX2

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PHARMACOLOGY

Course code

PHAR220

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The infrastructure for the basic concepts and terminology of Pharmacology Pharmacology have the infrastructure for the basic concepts and terminology. absorption of drug administered to the body by welding and the overall properties of the drugs in the body, distribution, biotransformation and removal from the body, forms of action in the body of drugs, administration route and dose with interactions and adverse effects from other drugs which act on the body systems medicament sources and know the properties of the nervous system, heart -dam system, blood and shaping properties of drug effects on organ blood, pharmacokinetics, effects, adverse effects, drug interactions, usage and know the dose, cardiotonic glycosides, antiarrhythmic drugs, adrenergic agonist and antagonist drugs to know and practice applying the hypotensive drug forms. Central nervous system drugs. affecting the autonomic nervous system drugs. effective drugs to the respiratory tract. effective drugs for the digestive system. Endocrine systema effective drugs. Urinary system drugs. Hemolytic chemotherapeutic drugs. Diuretics and medications to regulate the fluid-electrolyte balance apply. Antibiotics are drugs derived apply. Drug application and impact of the students is aimed to gözlel we can not learn.

UNIVERSITY ELECTIVE

Course code

UNIEXX2

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Fourth Semester

VOCATIONAL PRACTICE

Course code

FAID202

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This course provides students with the training period at the end of three, apparently consolidate knowledge and experience in Courses during school education behalf of the institution, accompanied by experienced practice supervisors of work experience in a hospital and in the areas that is scraped off the 14-week training program. To be determined by interviewing the student before the start of an internship the last semester with the approval of the internship Committee shall be approved and in place, to gain work experience and practical application will do. The student application will be evaluated by the supervisor in charge at the end of that student to the school administration and are evaluated with the petition and will send information about the internship evaluation form. Both the application class as part of the student sufficient practical experience to be gained both theoretical knowledge reinforced at the end of semester it is intended.

AREA ELECTIVE

Course code

FAIDXX2

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AREA ELECTIVE

Course code

FAIDXX3

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AREA ELECTIVE

FREE ELECTIVE

Course code

FREEXX3

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FREE ELECTIVE

TR Applicants

TR Students who are successful in the exams conducted by the Higher Education Council Student Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM) and are entitled to enroll in our university in line with their preferences can complete the registration process with the necessary documents for registration from our Registration and Liaison Offices throughout Turkey or from the Marketing Directorate on campus.

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TRNC Applicants

TRNC citizens and TR citizen candidate students who have completed their entire high school education in TRNC. They are placed in undergraduate programs in line with their success in the CIU Student Placement and Scholarship Ranking Exam and the programs they prefer.

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Required documents;

Completed application form,
Higher/Secondary Certificate or equivalents (e.g. O/A’Level, WAEC/NECO),
Evidence of English Language competence: TOEFL (65 IBT) or IELTS (5.5). Students without these documents will take the CIU English proficiency exam on campus following arrival,
Scanned copy of international passport/birth certificate,
Fully completed and signed CIU Rules and Regulations document (which can be downloaded during the online application).

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Fees

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