Curricula

Objectives

The purpose is that you can anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena in advanced nursing care as an autonomous practitioner. You are able to interact, communicate and develop activities internationally in your own field of expertise. You are able to consider how the dynamics and organizational culture in healthcare affect the teams’ performance and outcomes.

Competences: Internationality and multiculturalism, Developing working community, Professional leadership

By the end of the course, you can promote the development of the autonomous advanced practitioner role in clinical, professional, and political contexts. You possess knowledge and skills to act as a mentor, role model, and trainer of advanced practice in multi-professional teams and networks by following ethical codes and principles. You possess competence to renew and develop health services in accordance with the organization's strategy and your own field of clinical expertise as an autonomous practitioner. You can evaluate the cost-effectiveness of the client-oriented services and outcomes and renew those services from a standpoint of sustainability. You have gained competence to educate healthcare professionals to apply the best, current evidence on digital technologies that support safe patient care. You can create and actively participate in and reform professional networks that develop advanced practice and enhance the well-being and health outcomes of the population in focus.

Content

Global perspective in advanced nursing practitioner’s role and scope of practice.

Global phenomena in advanced nursing such as nurse-sensitive indicators, genomi-informed patient guidance, patient safety, magnet hospitals and nurse-led health services.

Sustainability in clinical practice.

Evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of the client-oriented services.

Mentor, role model, and trainer of advanced practice in multi-professional teams and networks.

Future challenges in advanced practice nursing

Other relevant, contemporary phenomena in advanced nursing

Time and location

Mandatory participation in webinars and in-person classes:

9.1.2024 webinar 9-12 Helsinki time (presence mandatory)
7.2.2024 webinar 9-12 Helsinki time (presence mandatory)
20.3.2024 in-person classes 9-12 at Jamk (presence mandatory)
21.3.2024 in-person classes 9-12 at Jamk (presence mandatory)

Learning materials and recommended literature

Woo, B.F.Y., Lee, J.X.Y. & Tam, W.W.S. 2017. The impact of the advanced practice nursing role on quality of care, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost in the emergency and critical care settings: a systematic review. Human Resources for Health 15, 63.

Oner, B., Zengul, FD., Oner, N., Ivankova, NV., Karadag, A. & Patrician, PA. 2021. Nursing-sensitive indicators for nursing care: A systematic review (1997–2017). Nursing Open 8, 1005–1022.

Mahat, S., Rafferty, A.M., Vehviläinen-Julkunen, K. & Härkänen, M. 2022. Negative emotions experienced by healthcare staff following medication administration errors: a descriptive study using text-mining and content analysis of incident data. BMC Health Service Research 22, 1474.

Global patient safety action plan 2021–2030: towards eliminating avoidable harm in health care. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2021. https://www.who.int./teams/integrated-health-services/patient-safety

Yang, W. et al. 2021. Research focus and thematic trends in magnet hospital research: A bibliometric analysis of the global publications. Journal of Advanced Nursing 77, 2012–2025.

Teaching methods

Flipped learning (tasks prior to webinars and in-person classes)
Active participation in webinars and in-person classes
Independent work

Student workload

Student's workload:

Webinars and in-person classes: 15 hours
Assignments, independent work: 90 hours
Home tasks: 30 hours

Mandatory participation in webinars and in-person classes:

9.1.2024 webinar 9-12 Helsinki time (presence mandatory)
7.2.2024 webinar 9-12 Helsinki time (presence mandatory)
20.3.2024 in-person classes 9-12 at Jamk (presence mandatory)
21.3.2024 in-person classes 9-12 at Jamk (presence mandatory)

Content scheduling

Mandatory participation in webinars and in-person classes:

9.1.2024 webinar 9-12 Helsinki time (presence mandatory)
7.2.2024 webinar 9-12 Helsinki time (presence mandatory)
20.3.2024 in-person classes 9-12 at Jamk (presence mandatory)
21.3.2024 in-person classes 9-12 at Jamk (presence mandatory)

Further information for students

Final assignment, home tasks
Feedback from the teacher, self-evaluation, peer review

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Evaluation criteria, satisfactory (1-2)

Pass, fail

Pass: You will be able to anticipate the impacts and opportunities of global development and phenomena in advanced nursing care as an autonomous practitioner. You can develop activities in your own field of expertise. You understand how the dynamics and organizational culture in healthcare affect the teams’ performance and outcomes. You can renew client-oriented health services from the standpoint of sustainability and cost-effectiveness. You are able to ensure patient safety and promote high-quality of care by training and mentoring healthcare professionals to apply the best evidence on digital technologies into practice. You participate actively in the webinars as well as in-person classes. You do your home tasks and the final assignment according to given instructions.

Prerequisites

Bachelor degree in nursing.

Further information

The course will be held in spring 2024.