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Management and entrepreneurship in health care (5 cr)

Code: SH00AD01-3022

General information


Enrollment

06.04.2022 - 22.04.2022

Timing

29.08.2022 - 07.10.2022

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

Distance learning

Campus

Kouvola Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Health Care

Teachers

  • Katja Villikka

Teacher in charge

Katja Villikka

Groups

  • THKV19SP
    Health care, full-time studies

Objective

Management and entrepreneurship
• you are able to manage your own actions and understand the meaning of internal entrepreneurship
• you are able to assess the resources of a team, and prioritize tasks and related responsibilities
• you understand the meaning of leadership/management in nursing
• you understand the basis or entrepreneurship in health care and its role as part of the service system
• you understand the meaning of changes in health care and you are able to act in changing situations according to your responsibilities

Quality and safety of social and health services
• you show responsibility for the quality of your nursing work
• you are able to prevent and identify quality deviations in all phases of the treatment process
• you are able to evaluate the quality and methods of nursing in all phases of the treatment process

Content

Management and entrepreneurship
• internal entrepreneurship
• self-management and competence management
• critical self-reflection
• differences between leadership/management styles and theories
• prioritization of tasks and work group leader’s responsibilities and duties
• changes within the health care sector and their influence on the work of an individual employee
• entrepreneurship as a line of work
• possibilities for entrepreneurship in social and health care
• cost-consciousness and cost-efficiency

Quality and safety of social and health services
• legislation, national quality recommendations and requirements; best practice and ethical guidelines
• quality systems and quality control

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

You have proven your competence in the following studies:

Quality and safety of social and health care services 5 ECTS