Study Guide

Objective

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• you know the legislation and ethical guidelines of nursing

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• you know the concept of evidence-based practice and its importance in social and health care

Quality and safety of social and health services
• you know the principles of safety control and your responsibility in promoting them
• you know your professional responsibility in ensuring and promoting patient safety
• you are able to promote patient safety in all phases of the patient’s treatment process
• you are able to advice patients and their family in decision making concerning the treatment and promotion of safety
• you know the importance of confidentiality in the treatment process
• you are able to maintain the confidentiality and security of information
• you know your responsibility for the quality of your nursing work

Content

Ethics and professionality in nursing
• Human dignity and human rights (WHO/ILO)
• Values, ethical principles and guidelines in nursing (Etene)

Evidence-based practice and decision making
• The concept of evidence-based practice (incl. production, distribution, implementation and evaluation of evidence) and its objectives
• Data search: the most important databases of health science

Quality and safety of social and health services
• The provision and organization of social and health services by the public, private and third sectors
• Ergonomics
• Planning and organization of and responsibilities in safety management
• Prevention, recognition and management of safety incidents
• Legislation on patient safty
• Areas of patient safety; equipment; treatment and medication safety
• Factors related to safety incidents and their reporting
• Promotion of system-oriented culture of patient safety
• Radiation safety
• Extended obligation of confidentiality and data protection, patients’ right to access their own medical records
• Data protection plan and security risks
• Information systems and their use in patient information recording
• Documentation and reporting
• Social media, electronic registers and other electronic communication
• Health care registers and printed archives
• Legislation, national quality recommendations and requirements; best practice and ethical guidelines

Materials

Module: Professional basics in nursing 30 ECTS credits