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Advanced Patient Safety (2 cr)

Code: STH6089-3012

General information


Enrollment

01.04.2023 - 15.04.2023

Timing

07.08.2023 - 15.12.2023

Number of ECTS credits allocated

2 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Campus

Tikkarinne Campus Tikkarinne 9

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Nursing

Teachers

  • Petri Ronkainen
  • Mari Savolainen

Teacher in charge

Mari Savolainen

Groups

  • STHNK21
    Nurse, Full-time Studies, Spring, 2021

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 devel-
oped 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