Burdur Mehmet Akif Ersoy University (MAKÜ) Çavdır Vocational School of Health Care Services Department students participated in a technical trip.
Çavdır Vocational School of Health Services Department Elderly Care program students visited İzmir Narlıdere Nursing Home Elderly Care and Rehabilitation Center and Aydın Adnan Menderes University Sümer Campus. The technical trip, guided by Lecturer Sultan Kılıç, contributed to the students' professional competencies, allowing them to see the best examples in the field of elderly care and conduct on-site examinations in institutions that offer multidisciplinary services.
The technical trip started with a visit to Narlıdere Nursing Home, which was established in 1991, is the second largest in Europe, and has the comfort of a five-star hotel with a capacity of nearly a thousand. The students observed the active elderly blocks, geriatric care center, conference halls, nursery, mosque, amphitheater, laboratory, and greenhouse within the nursing home complex and witnessed the wisdom of the active elderly by chatting with them. The students received information about the institution's operation from the institution's director Recep Yağcıoğlu and examined the institution under the leadership of the institution's Chief Nurse Ayşe Karahüseyin, having the opportunity to witness the elderly. The students, who chatted with the elderly in the active elderly blocks and exercised, observed the conditions of the elderly in the Geriatric Care Center and received information from the healthcare personnel about the diseases and care processes of the elderly. Narlıdere Nursing Home, which has approximately five hundred employees, allowed the students to get to know the field they will work in closely, establish a spiritual bond with the elderly, and closely observe a care model that is worthy of human dignity.
At the second stop of the trip, the Nazilli Sümerbank Print Factory, Factory Museum, and the Nazilli Health Services Vocational School located within the closed factory campus, which was opened by Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in 1937, were visited. The students first visited the museum where the artifacts of the Nazilli Sümerbank Print Factory are exhibited, witnessing the establishment of the factory and the history of the world's most important social factory model. The Sümerbank Print Factory, which operated between 1937-1999 and exhibited education, culture, and production steps together; with its choir, band, cinema hall, sewing courses, football team, Turkey's first grilled field, school, nursery, hospital, sports areas, and gıdı gıdı train, contributed to the students' learning of Sümerbank history. Subsequently, the classrooms and laboratories of the Nazilli Health Services Vocational School located within the Sümer Campus were visited, and the students were informed about the elderly care, home care, podology, and physiotherapy programs within the school.
