Advanced Patient Security (2 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

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