Hybrid curriculum in patient safety: integration of academic master’s education and continuous professional education in Estonia and in Norway

About this project

<p>During the last decades, the interest in patient safety has notably increased in the society, thus, the continuous improvement of competence in patient safety among the health care staff and managers is essential. This project aims to develop the hybrid curriculum of patient safety module integrating academic master’s education and continuous professional education (CPE) in nursing. This kind of integration enables to merge academic and clinical knowledge what is required in implementation and managing patient safety interventions in research and clinical practice. It is achieved by appropriate training of the teaching staff, development of the innovative teaching and learning resources (TLR), and through adding the international dimension by common training and exchange of knowledge and experience between University of Tartu (Estonia) and Nord University (Norway). Moreover, this curriculum and resources will be applicable for the undergraduate training of medical students as well for the CPE of physicians and other health professionals. Therefore, besides the development of new innovative TLRs and exchange of good practices between the project partners, this project will support the integration between higher education and employment.</p>

Bilateral cooperation results

Some cooperation will continue already after the funding of this project has been ended. We will continue the work with the publishing of the project results but also the further validation of the H-PEPSS instrument in Estonia and in Norway. The validated instruments will be used for nursing master’s students at the entry of the program and after finishing the program. In the nearest future we will start the with the on-line lectures for the nursing master students in Estonia and in Norway provided by the core group members from Estonia and Norway.

Project partners

• Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Donor project partner· Norway