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Development of Patient Safety and Rational Pharmacotherapy (5 cr)

Code: 7321033-3003

General information


Enrollment

23.05.2019 - 31.08.2019

Timing

28.08.2019 - 03.12.2019

Number of ECTS credits allocated

5 op

Virtual portion

4 op

RDI portion

5 op

Mode of delivery

20 % Contact teaching, 80 % Distance learning

Unit

Health and Well-being

Campus

Kupittaa Campus

Teaching languages

  • Finnish

Seats

5 - 15

Degree programmes

  • Master of Advanced Nursing Practice

Teachers

  • Marjo Salmela

Groups

  • YSOTES18

Objective

Students will learn to
- assess and develop the safety of care provided in the work unit
- plan and implement development work that promotes rational pharmacotherapy (e.g. planning, implementation and assessment of an intervention that promotes adherence to care)
- be able to apply evidence-based knowledge when developing processes related to patient safety and pharmacotherapy
- work together with a multi-professional team when developing patient and medication safety
- analyse the implementation of ethical principles in pharmacotherapy

Content

- Rational pharmacotherapy (medication policy, national strategy for drug information, implementation programme for pharmacotherapy, the FIMEA multi-professional network)
- Medication safety as part of patient safety and the development thereof (incl. risk management)
- Ethical perspective into pharmacotherapy
- Promoting adherence to care in pharmacotherapy

Evaluation scale

H-5