COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PATIENT SAFETY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
SBE 5042 PATIENT SAFETY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

The Institute Of Health Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞEYDA SEREN INTEPELER

Offered to

Nursing Management

Course Objective

In this course, it is aimed to enable students to develop her/his awareness about patient security that is included within the quality in health, increase her/his knowledge and skills about this subject, assess health institutions in terms of patient security, guide in the constitution of the patient security culture, determine the risk factors about the patient security, discuss the development of the awareness of especially the notification and classification of medical mistakes, plan leadership in decreasing medical mistakes and all processes, comprehend the importance of worker s health and security, increase the awareness about the legal dimension of patient security and develop the thinking process aimed at great mistake reasons such as root cause analysis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can examine the international targets of patient security.
2   The student can comprehend and develop the organizational and secure culture.
3   The student can transfer the knowledge related with high-risk and privileged fields in patient security to quality studies in the field.
4   The student can discuss the notification systems and learning from notifications.
5   The student can develop strategies in line with medical mistakes and medical security knowledge.
6   The student can develop the strategies of preventing patient fallings, pressure wounds and infections
7   The student can associate working conditions and worker s health
8   The student can review the ethical and legal dimension of patient security.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Institutional culture, patient security and quality care
2 Constitution of secure culture, communication and team work
3 High-risk and privileged fields in patient security
4 Notification systems of medical mistakes
5 Learning from mistakes and reports
6 Root cause analysis and methods being used
7 Device, blood security and secure hospital environment
8 Medical mistakes and medical security
9 Strategies of preventing patient fallings
10 Strategies of preventing pressure ulcers and infections
11 Devices of developing quality and patient security
12 Working conditions and worker s health
13 Ethical and legal dimension of patient security
14 FInal Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Farley DO. et al (2005). Assesment of the National Patient Safety Initiative, Context and Baseline Evaluation Report 1, RAND.
Farley OD. (2005). Assessment of the National Patient Safety Initiative: Context and Baseline, Rand Corporation.
Hall LM. et.al (2005). Quality Work Environments for Nurse and Patient Safety, Ed.Linda McGillis Hall, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, USA.
Hughes RG (2008) Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. AHRQ Publication, USA.
Kelly-Heidenthal, P. (2003). Nursing Leadership&ManagenetThomson-Delmar.
Nelson A. (2006). Safe Patient Handling and Movement, A Practical Guide for Health Care Professionals, Springer Publishing Company, USA.
Nelson A. (2006). Safe Patient Handling And Movement: A Guide for Nurses And Other Health Care Providers, Springer Publishing.
Swansburg R.C, Swansburg R.J. (1999). Introductory Management and Leadership for Nurses, Second Ed, Jones&Bartlet Pub, Massachusets

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Presentation, discussion, literature review, questions-answers

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRF PERFORMANCE
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 +PRF * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The relevant weekly literature study of students is measured with the analysis of literature, as well as the presentation and discussion of results during the course.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Address: Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Hemşirelik Fakültesi 35240 Balçova/IZMIR
Office Phone: 412 47 91

Office Hours

It varies according to the personal program that is constituted every semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 12 12
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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