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Operational management in acute care (5 cr)

Code: AH00DJ65-3003

General information


Enrollment

14.12.2020 - 14.01.2021

Timing

01.01.2021 - 02.05.2021

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Mode of delivery

Contact teaching

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Degree programmes

  • Master's Degree Programme in Acute Care

Teachers

  • Jarno Hämäläinen
  • Virpi Maijala

Teacher in charge

Virpi Maijala

Groups

  • AHKT20SY
    Acute care, master studies

Objective

• You can describe the pressures for change of the environment and analyse their effects for nursing management.
• You apply knowledge about the changes in the society in the planning of the operation.
• You identify the preconditions for a safe patient care and staff security and can analyse their significance from the perspective of the development needs in management.
• You can assess ethics of management.
• You can analyse the effectiveness of the operation.

Content

• How do the economies and control systems of the health care and social services direct the production of services?
• What laws oblige and direct the planning of the operation?
• How are the aims of the strategy implemented in nursing practice?
• What are the means to assessing and developing quality and productivity?
• What is the ethics of management?
• What effect does evidence based management and practice have on quality and productivity?

Evaluation scale

1-5