Safety in NursingLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

-To understand the principles of the operational unit’s safety management and one’s responsibilities in promoting them
-To understand one’s professional responsibility in ensuring and promoting patient safety
-To be able to promote patient safety during all stages of the treatment process
-To be able to guide the patient and their families in decisions regarding treatment and patient safety
-To master the basics of infection prevention and to be able to justify their importance
-To be able to plan and assess safe pharmacotherapy
-To understand the importance of information security in the treatment process
-To act responsibly in maintaining information security and privacy protection

Content

Safety and risk management
Legal obligations regarding the health care operational unit’s safety
Ergonomics
Planning, organising and responsibilities in safety management
Preventing safety anomalies and dangerous situations, preventing and managing risks
Patient safety
Obligations imposed by legislation regarding patient safety
Aspects of patient safety; safety of treatment methods and medication
Factors contributing to adverse situations; obligation to notify and report in case of a dangerous or adverse situation
System-orientated promotion of patient safety, patient safety culture
Radiation safety
Basic resuscitation
Infection prevention
Infection prevention
Asepsis
Microbiology
Pharmacotherapy
Basics of pharmacotherapy
Pharmaceutical service
Medication calculation
Information security and privacy protection
Broad secrecy and information protection, the patient’s right to informationInformation security plan and information security risks
Information systems and their utilisation in patient documentation
Reporting obligations: recording and reporting nursing work
Social media, electronic registers and other electronic communication
Health care registers and paper archives

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Excellent(5), good (4–3), fair (2–1), fail (0)