Study Guide

Objective

The student:
- knows how to work with an attitude of self-management and leading a team.
- can identify and interpret legislation, norms and collective agreements related to working life.
- is aware of his/her responsibility for the quality of nursing in his/her own activity and in the organization.
- can assess the quality of nursing work and the organization of nursing work, as well as prevent and identify quality deviations in all different stages of the care processes.
- is able to prevent and detect shortcomings in the quality of the nursing process.
- is able to evaluate quality throughout the nursing process and understand the responsibility in securing and promoting patient safety.

Content

Finnish labor legislation, collective agreements and national quality recommendations
Treatment / Care recommendations, treatment classifications, quality systems, quality management.
Cost awareness and the basics of financial operations
Recruitment, induction, mentoring and student guidance
Development discussions, lifelong learning
Identifying nursing development and research targets

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- is able to recognize the meaning of management as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to analyze the topics of management and quality assurance from a limited viewpoint.
- is able to combine the topics related to health care organisations in a limited way.
- is able to utilize the laws and norms of working life in a limited way in health care organizations.
- is able to list the needs of the quality assurance methods.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

3-4
The student
- is able to manage himself/herself as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to handle the topics of management and quality assurance widely.
- is able to combine the topics related to health care organizations.
- is able to utilize the laws and norms of working life in health care organizations.
- is able to analyze the needs of quality assurance and patient-safety in health care organizations.

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

5
The student
- is able to manage himself/herself responsibly as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to seek the most recent research knowledge related to topics of management and quality assurance.
- is able to deal with the topics comprehensively related to the health care organizations.
- is able to apply and work critically according to the laws and norms of working life.
- is able to justify and make decisions regarding quality assurance and patient-safety in health care organizations.

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Failed = 0
The student
- is not able to recognize the meaning of management as a member of the working community and different networks.
- is able to analyze the topics of management and quality assurance without connection to health care organizations or instructions of the assignment.
- is not able to describe the main laws and norms of working life.
- is not able to recognize the needs of the quality assurance methods in health care organizations.