Functional work community as resource (5 cr)

Objective

- You understand the legal framework for maintaining safety at work.
- You are able to promote the safety culture of a healthcare and social welfare organisation as part of your expert role.
- You understand the importance of strategic-level planning for maintaining the work ability of staff.
-You understand and can take into account individual responses to critical situations when planning preparedness, contingency and recovery in a healthcare and social welfare organisation.

Content

- How does legislation guide maintaining safety at work?
- How is the safety culture built?
- What are the strategies for supporting and ensuring people’s ability to work?
- Reactions to critical situations and recovery from them?

Evaluation

Students can:
a. find, study, produce and evaluate critically multidisciplinary data on promoting the functional capacity of work communities
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
h. develop their continuous learning skills

Evaluation scale

1-5