Operational reliability and resilience of healthcare and social welfare organisations (5 cr)

Objective

- You understand the importance of systematic human resource management for continuity management.
- You know the different aspects and objectives related to material preparedness in healthcare and social welfare organisations.
- You are able to assess the resilience of healthcare and social welfare organisations.
- You are able to identify the different interdependencies that affect healthcare and social welfare organisations.
- You are able to identify digitalisation-related risks from a continuity management perspective.

Content

- In what ways are human resources part of continuity management in healthcare and social welfare organisations?
- What are the needs of healthcare and social welfare organisations in terms of material preparedness?
- How resilient are healthcare and social welfare organisations?
- What interdependencies are there in various risk scenarios?
- What risks does digitalisation pose to continuity management in healthcare and social welfare organisations?

Evaluation

The course assessment scale is 0-5 (0=fail, 1-2 = satisfactory, 3-4 = good, 5 = excellent).
The following Xamk-level criteria apply to course assessment:
Students can:
a. find, study, produce and evaluate critically multidisciplinary data associated with the operational reliability and resilience of healthcare and social welfare organisations
b. solve demanding development problems
c. independently evaluate operations involving individuals and teams
d. be responsible for operations and develop them independently
e. evaluate different strategic approaches and justify their use in terms of development
f. work independently in the expert duties of their professional field
g. communicate proficiently and systematically in spoken and written Finnish and English

Evaluation scale

1-5