Improving Patient Safety (2 cr)
Code: SH10047-3006
General information
Enrollment
01.04.2025 - 30.04.2025
Timing
11.08.2025 - 19.12.2025
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2 op
Mode of delivery
Contact teaching
Campus
Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Seats
20 - 100
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Nursing
Teachers
- Mari Savolainen
- Petri Ronkainen
- Sanna Lötjönen
- Jaana Jussila
Teacher in charge
Mari Savolainen
Scheduling groups
- TOTEUTUS 1 - VIIKOT 33 - 37 (Size: 24. Open UAS: 0.)
- TOTEUTUS 2 - VIIKOT 37 - 41 (Size: 24. Open UAS: 0.)
- TOTEUTUS 3 - VIIKOT 43 - 47 (Size: 24. Open UAS: 0.)
Groups
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SHAK23Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Blended Learning, Spring, 2023
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SHNK23Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Full-time Studies, Spring, 2023
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SHFS23Bachelor of Health Care, Nursing, Blended Learning, Fall, 2023, Fast Track
Small groups
- Excercise Team 1
- Excercise Team 2
- Excercise Team 3
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