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Improving Patient SafetyLaajuus (2 cr)

Code: SH10047

Credits

2 op

Teaching language

  • Finnish

Responsible person

  • Mari Savolainen
  • Petri Ronkainen

Objective

You demonstrate knowledge of key factors regarding patient and client safety

You promote patient safety and prevent patient safety incidents in every phase of the nursing
process.

You communicate clearly to ensure patient safety

You are able to recognize potential patient safety incidents and report them.

You demonstrate ability of systematic assessment of the need for emergency care, and to take immediate action in situations requiring emergency care.

You participate in developing evidence based practice in your own work.

You demonstrate ability to make evidence based clinical decisions.

Reflecting with your work community, you are able to identify practices to be developed and things that need to be changed in your own work.

Content

- Ensuring patient safety
- Fields of patient safety: equipment safety, nursing care safety, safety of interventions, medication safety, Radiation safety
- Patient safety culture
- Systematic efforts to guarantee patient safety;
>>>The use of ABCDE, NEWS / PEWS +
>>>Methodical tool for structured reporting (ISBAR)
- Human factors as risk to patient safety
- Stress management skills
- Learning from mistakes to prevent harm
- Open processing of mistakes
- Situation specific action in hazardous situation
- Handling process of the report of patient safety incident

Enrollment

01.10.2024 - 31.10.2024

Timing

07.01.2025 - 25.05.2025

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

20 - 120

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Nursing
  • Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
Teachers
  • Mari Savolainen
  • Petri Ronkainen
  • Sanna Lötjönen
  • Jaana Jussila
Teacher in charge

Mari Savolainen

Scheduling groups
  • TOTEUTUS 1 - viikoilla 2 - 5 (Size: 26. Open UAS: 0.)
  • TOTEUTUS 2 - viikoilla 6 - 9 (Size: 24. Open UAS: 0.)
  • TOTEUTUS 3 - viikoilla 11 - 14 (Size: 24. Open UAS: 0.)
  • TOTEUTUS 4 - viikoilla 14 - 17 (Size: 24. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
  • SHNS22
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time studies, fall, 2022
  • SHAS22
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Blended Learning, Fall, 2022
  • STNS22
    Public Health Nurse, Full-time Studies, Fall, 2022
Small groups
  • Excercise Team 1
  • Excercise Team 2
  • Excercise Team 3
  • Excercise Team 4

Objective

You demonstrate knowledge of key factors regarding patient and client safety

You promote patient safety and prevent patient safety incidents in every phase of the nursing
process.

You communicate clearly to ensure patient safety

You are able to recognize potential patient safety incidents and report them.

You demonstrate ability of systematic assessment of the need for emergency care, and to take immediate action in situations requiring emergency care.

You participate in developing evidence based practice in your own work.

You demonstrate ability to make evidence based clinical decisions.

Reflecting with your work community, you are able to identify practices to be developed and things that need to be changed in your own work.

Content

- Ensuring patient safety
- Fields of patient safety: equipment safety, nursing care safety, safety of interventions, medication safety, Radiation safety
- Patient safety culture
- Systematic efforts to guarantee patient safety;
>>>The use of ABCDE, NEWS / PEWS +
>>>Methodical tool for structured reporting (ISBAR)
- Human factors as risk to patient safety
- Stress management skills
- Learning from mistakes to prevent harm
- Open processing of mistakes
- Situation specific action in hazardous situation
- Handling process of the report of patient safety incident

Evaluation scale

H-5

Enrollment

01.04.2024 - 30.04.2024

Timing

07.10.2024 - 31.12.2024

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages
  • Finnish
Seats

20 - 25

Degree programmes
  • Degree Programme in Nursing
  • Degree Programme in Public Health Nursing
Teachers
  • Petri Ronkainen
  • Mari Savolainen
  • Jaana Jussila
Teacher in charge

Mari Savolainen

Groups
  • SHNS22
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time studies, fall, 2022
  • SHAS22
    Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Blended Learning, Fall, 2022
  • STNS22
    Public Health Nurse, Full-time Studies, Fall, 2022

Objective

You demonstrate knowledge of key factors regarding patient and client safety

You promote patient safety and prevent patient safety incidents in every phase of the nursing
process.

You communicate clearly to ensure patient safety

You are able to recognize potential patient safety incidents and report them.

You demonstrate ability of systematic assessment of the need for emergency care, and to take immediate action in situations requiring emergency care.

You participate in developing evidence based practice in your own work.

You demonstrate ability to make evidence based clinical decisions.

Reflecting with your work community, you are able to identify practices to be developed and things that need to be changed in your own work.

Content

- Ensuring patient safety
- Fields of patient safety: equipment safety, nursing care safety, safety of interventions, medication safety, Radiation safety
- Patient safety culture
- Systematic efforts to guarantee patient safety;
>>>The use of ABCDE, NEWS / PEWS +
>>>Methodical tool for structured reporting (ISBAR)
- Human factors as risk to patient safety
- Stress management skills
- Learning from mistakes to prevent harm
- Open processing of mistakes
- Situation specific action in hazardous situation
- Handling process of the report of patient safety incident

Teaching methods

Ensuring patient safety

Fields of patient safety: equipment safety, nursing care safety, safety of interventions, drug safety
and medication safety
Patient safety culture
Radiation safety

Systematic efforts to guarantee patient safety;

The use of ABCDE, NEWS / PEWS +

Methodical tool for structured reporting (ISBAR)

Human factors as risk to patient safety
Stress management skills
Learning from mistakes to prevent harm
Open processing of mistakes

Situation specific action in hazardous situation

Handling process of the report of patient safety incident

Demonstration of speaking skills in professional English.

Evaluation scale

H-5