Would you like to learn about how safety and quality can be managed and developed in social and health care?
Are you interested in
- learning about S&Q systems and frameworks,
- developing health care safety and quality management in interprofessional and international groups,
- learning about S & Q guiding national and international guidelines and critically assessing them and
- learning about quality development tools and techniques?
If yes, this course is for you.
Target Audience, to whom?
- your work relates somehow to social and health care services or technology
- you can be e.g. social and health care professional, health technology engineer, business professional or manager working in the field
- health care safety and quality is close to your heart
Objectives
The student
- learns what causes quality, how quality is ascertained, and how quality work is managed in an organization.
- understands the cornerstones of safety and quality systems and the process development approach.
- obtains safety and quality improvement methods and tools.
- is able to apply the most common methods of quality management as part of a team.
- recognizes client requirements and internal and external stakeholders.
Contents
- Safety and Quality management systems in social and health care
- Standards and laws
- Quality development tools and techniques
- Process management
Time and realisation of studies
Studies are realised during time period 24.1. - 20.3.2024. They comprise independent learning at Moodle-platform, contact sessions using Zoom-application and group work in international and interprofessional groups. We end up the course into an interesting seminar where the groups present the outputs of their seminar works.
Price
5 ECTS, 75 €
Enrollment
Enrollment is open from 27 November 2023 to 14 January 2024.
Before enrolling, please read the Open UAS study guidelines and the Open UAS terms of payment and cancellation. For more information on the general prerequisites (language skills, study skills), see the Open UAS website Language skills and other requirements.
Contact Persons
Programme coordinator Petra Heino petra.heino [at] metropolia.fi (petra[dot]heino[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
Principal Lecturer Eija Metsälä eija.metsala [at] metropolia.fi (eija[dot]metsala[at]metropolia[dot]fi)