Study Guide

Objective

The student acts with an attitude of self-management. The student is aware of his/her responsibility for the quality of nursing in his/her own action and in the organization. The student is able to prevent and detect shortcomings in the quality of the nursing process. The student is able to evaluate quality throughout the nursing process and understand the responsibility in securing and promoting patient safety.

Content

Finnish legislation and national quality guidelines and requirements.
Care guidelines, patient classification systems, quality management systems, quality assurance, sectors of patient safety: safe care, safe equipment, safe medication, HaiPro Safety Incident Reporting System

Evaluation scale

1-5

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

1-2
The student
- is able to recognize the meaning of the management as the 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 actual 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

Qualifications

No prerequisites