Management and Leadership in Nursing and Prehospital Emergency Care (3 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The student
- outlines the human resource management as a whole
- recognizes and understands the key work community skills
- understands the importance of organizational quality and safety management
- is able to analyze own acquirements for work
- possesses the basic skills needed to lead prehospital emergency services in multi-authority situations
- outlines the situation as a whole on an accident scene and is able to act as a situational leader in multiple patient situations
- is able to act according the guidelines related to exceptional circumstances in health care
- is able to act according the mass-casualty protocol in relation to operative action and communication

Content (course unit)

- key processes of human resource management
- strategic planning, implementation and evaluation of personnel management
- organizational quality and safety management
- work community culture and skills
- critical thinking
- the leadership in prehospital emergency services and multi-authority co-operation, especially situational leadership
- the exceptional circumstances in health care
- mass-casualty situations

Prerequisites (course unit)

At the beginning of Advanced Level Emergency Care studies, the student must have completed 140 credits of studies. These should include studies in Anatomy and Physiology, The Basic Level Emergency Care skills and Supervised Clinical Trainings 1-5.

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1-2) (course unit)

- knows basic concepts of human resource management
- recognizes the importance of organizational quality and safety management
- recognizes some key work community skills
- recognizes own acquirements for work
- knows the meaning of multi-authority co-operation in prehospital emergency care and is able to apply the main features into practice
- knows the principles of situational leadership and is able to apply the main features into practice
- knows the principles of operative actions and communication in relation to mass-casualty protocol

Assessment criteria, good (3-4) (course unit)

- knows and describes the key areas of human resource management
- knows the importance of organizational quality and safety
- knows some key work community skills
- can describe own acquirements for work
- knows and understands the meaning of multi-authority co-operation in prehospital emergency care and is able to apply the main features into practice
- knows and understands the principles of situational leadership and is able to apply these into practice in comprehensive manner
- knows and understands the principles of operative actions and communication in relation to mass-casualty protocol

Assessment criteria, excellent (5) (course unit)

- is able to understand the human resource management as a whole
- understands the importance of organizational quality and safety
- can analyze and discuss the key work community skills
- can analyze own acquirements for work
- masters the multi-authority co-operation in prehospital emergency care and is able to implement it into practice
- masters the principles of situational leadership and is able to apply these into practice in comprehensive manner by taking different aspects of a multiprofessional team work into consideration
- masters the principles of operative actions and communication in relation to mass-casualty protocol and is able to apply these into practice by taking different aspects of a multiprofessional team work into consideration

Exam schedules

Opintojaksolla ei ole tenttiä, vaan arviointi suoritetaan pienryhmissä tuotettujen tehtävien perusteella. Tarkempi ohjeistus orientaatiotunnilla.

Assessment methods and criteria

Opiskelijoille annetaan pienryhmissä suoritettava tehtävä, jonka tuotos arvioidaan. Pienryhmien tuotosten arviointi suhteutetaan keskenään. Arvioinnin perusteina käytetään mm. tuotosten innovatiivisuutta, laajuutta, huolellisuutta ja laadukkuutta.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Lähiopetus, itsenäinen työskentely, seminaarityöskentely, pienryhmätyöskentely

Learning materials

Ks. Ensihoidon syventävä osaaminen
Lisäksi: Castren, Ekman, Ruuska, Silfvast: Suuronnettomuusopas

Student workload

Opintojakso on 3 op. Kontaktiopetusta tästä on noin 18 h.

Content scheduling

2 h Palo- ja pelastautumisharjoituksen suunnittelu, toteutus, valvonta ja purku. PAKOLLINEN.
2 h Orientaatio ja luento. PAKOLLINEN.
4 h Suro/mopo ja L5-toimintaluento
4 h Seminaaritehtävien purku. PAKOLLINEN.
6 h Jalkautumisharjoitus ja tehtävien purku. PAKOLLINEN.

Completion alternatives

Ei ole.

Further information

Läsnäolovelvollisuus merkitty sisällön jaksotukseen, ks. yllä.
Poissaolojen korvaavuudesta sovitaan tilannekohtaisesti.