Safe Nursing (5cr)

Objective

Students will recognise the factors that affect patient safety in nursing and they will understand the significance of patient safety culture in terms of the overall care of patients. Students will adopt the ethical values of nursing and be proficient in legislation concerning the rights and duties of patients and nurses. Students will understand the significance of evidence based nursing as the main point of departure of all forms of nursing.

Content

Nursing science as the basis of nursing
Nursing as a scientific discipline and profession
Nursing ethics
The decision-making process in evidence based nursing and nursing documentation
Patient safety oriented nursing
The patient's rights and means of guaranteeing patients' rights
Cultural issues in nursing

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The students use the patient's/customer's own physical and mental resources in customer-oriented nursing. They can apply actions and thought affecting patient safety in their work. They can present social and health care services supporting the patients' own physical and mental resources. They are able to justify their work according to professional ethical principles. The students can plan and implement nursing interventions manner supporting the physical and mental resources of their patients in a customer-oriented.

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Students are able to support the physical and mental resources of their customers/patients. They can explain factors affecting patient safety, providing examples of the significance of social and health care services in supporting the physical and mental resources of customers/patients. They know how to work according to professional ethical principles when dealing with the elderly. The students are able to plan and implement nursing interventions supporting the customers'/patients' physical and mental resources with some supervision.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Students can recognise the physical and mental resources of their patients/customers and can name factors affecting patient safety as well as social and health care services supporting the physical and mental resources of their customers. They are able to treat the elderly with dignity and respect. The students can plan and implement nursing interventions supporting the physical and mental resources of their customers under supervision.