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Improving Patient SafetyLaajuus (2 cr)

Course unit code: SH10047

General information


Credits
2 cr
Teaching language
Finnish
Responsible person
Mari Savolainen, Vastuuopettaja
Petri Ronkainen, Varavastuuopettaja

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

Further information

Tämä kurssi kokoaa aiemmin opittuja tietoja hoitotyöstä, joten kurssia ennen tulee olla käytynä:
Hoitotaito
Sisätautien hoitotyö
Mielenterveys- ja päihdehoito
Ikääntyneen hoitotyö
Kirurginen hoitotyö
Lasten, nuorten ja perheiden hoito

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