Beskrivelse
Name of project: Ensuring expertise in patient and customer safety in simulation environmentsSchedule: 1.1.2010 – 31.12.2011 (24 mo.); Director Kerttu Oikarinen, Senior lecturer Paula Poikela
Need for the project
Health care educators today face dramatic changes and challenges as they seek to respond to the need for professional skills in health care, particularly nursing, in the 2000s. The nursing environment has become more technical and nursing situations require prompt decision-making ability and multi-professional co-operation skills. The nursing staff must have competence that is based on research and a showing of skill. A challenge of professional nursing know-how is the development of the distribution of work between doctors and nurses. As the population ages, patients often have multiple ailments, which in turn complicates nursing situations. As the population’s level of education has risen, customers have become more demanding. To ensure expertise in patient safety, educators need to recognise the curricular and educational challenges resulting from these factors. Simulation environments and education support students’ learning and practicing of clinical skills. Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences has responded to the challenges of patient safety both at the curricular level and by creating the internationally unique ENVI Virtual Centre of Wellness Campus, where the patient’s entire care and service process is virtualised and simulated, from the site of an incident via emergency care and ambulance transport to acute care, and from there via a hospital bed ward and rehabilitation to the patient’s home.
To find good practices it is necessary to further develop educational and curricular solutions. Good pedagogical practices can be found in European countries, the USA and Canada. During the ENVI Virtual Centre of Wellness Campus projects (2005 – 2007), gathering of preliminary information about curricular and pedagogical solutions was started by becoming familiar with Finnish and European simulation centres, by participating in international conferences on simulation education that were jointly arranged by working life and educators and by reading literature on earlier research. In addition, several doctoral studies concerning the functionality of simulation environments and the development of educational solutions are ongoing at the University of Lapland. The Nursing and Health Care Programme, which uses the ENVI environment the most, received a quality award from the Finnish Higher Education Evaluation Council.
Objectives, outcome and impact of the project
Objectives
The objective is to search for, compare and disseminate international good practices in simulation education and curricular solutions in the field of health care. The goal is to ensure customer-oriented, patient-safe expertise in nursing education and supplementary education given to health care professionals.
Outcome
1. An international network of simulation education in Europe, comprised of higher education teachers in the field of health care and hospitals’ planners of supplementary education
2. Good practices in simulation education and curricular solutions in nursing have been compared and analysed
3. An international seminar has been held in Rovaniemi to disseminate results
4. A written publication about simulation education and curricular solutions
Impact
Knowledge about best practices in simulation education and curricular solutions will enhance education, student counselling and planning and implementation of supplementary professional education in the field of health care, particularly nursing.
Repræsentant for Danmark. Har deltaget i interview, netværksmøder i Finland, Danmark og Tjekkiet. Bidraget med artikel i afsluttende projektudgivelse.
Netværkets tilhørsforhold: Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences, Finland
| Periode | 1 jan. 2010 → 31 dec. 2011 |
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| Sted for afholdelse | TOVI europæisk netværksprojekt, Ukendt |