Planning and Effectiveness of Rehabilitation (3 cr)

Evaluation scale

Pass/Fail

Objective

Student is able to plan his/her work along strategic management and operative leadership. He/she knows administrative procedure and responsibility of an official for the legality of his/her actions in public and private sector. Student recognizes forms of decision making and identifies proper solutions on guiding clients doing their decisions. Student knows effective methods of rehabilitation and assessment methods of the effectiveness of rehabilitation.

Content

Good administrative procedure of social and health services and related legislation
Responsibility of an official for the legality of his/her decisions
Levels and forms of rehabilitation decision making
Budgeting circle and some tools
Public strategic and qualitative plans and recommendations in rehabilitation service
The methods of effective rehabilitation and the assessment methods of rehabilitation

Materials

Kerkkänen M. & Niiranen V. 2014. Johtajan liikkumavaran rajat ja mahdollisuudet sosiaali- ja terveyspalveluissa. Teoksessa Niiranen V., Joensuu M., Lammintakanen, J. & Kerkkäinen, M. (toim.). 2014 Johtajana muutoksissa. Kuntaliitto.
Hallintolaki 6.6.2003/434
Laaksonen, H. & Ollila, S. Lähijohtamisen perusteet terveydenhuollossa. 2017.Luku 1 ja 4 (Kirja löytyy e-kirjana JAMK:n kirjastosta)
Kelan kuntoutustilastot (Kelasto).
Kelan kuntoutustilasto (newest)
Scientific articles e.g.:
Leinonen, T., Viikari-Juntura, E., Husgafvel-Pursiainen, K., Juvonen-Posti, P., Laaksonen, M., & Solovieva, S. (2019). The effectiveness of vocational rehabilitation on work participation: a propensity score matched analysis using nationwide register data. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 45(6), 651-660.

Teaching methods

The course is organized online studies. In the course the flipped learning is apply including pre assignment before each contact webinar. In addition there are both individual and group assignments.

Exam schedules

No exams. Submission dates of assignments are shown in the learning environment in the beginning of the course.

International connections

This course is in Finnish.

Completion alternatives

Online studies or studification of work

Student workload

Orientation: 2 h
Webinars: 8 tuntia (4x1,5h), 80 % attendance
Getting familiar with the course material (incl. pre-assignment of the webinars): 41 h
Assignments: 30 h
Total: 81 h (3 ects)

Assessment criteria, approved/failed

Pass: Student proves skills of good administrative procedure and decision making under assignments. He/she can apply different decisions´forms in practice. Student knows some of the cost statistics databases of rehabilitation and can interpret key rehabilitation cost statistics. Student is able to analyze concepts of effectiveness in rehabilitation service and evaluate results of effectiveness researches.

Qualifications

The student knows the key issues of rehabilitation service systems, legislation, assessment of rehabilitation needs, rehabilitation process and methods of counselling.