Posts By: Minaa Azimirad

Nursing Schools need to establish information systems for nursing security events. This is one of the conclusions reached by Song and Guo (2019) in their study entitled “What influences nursing safety event reporting among nursing interns?: Focus group study.” This study caught our attention, and it has served as a basis for reflecting on the… Continue reading →

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) are a longstanding part of the healthcare workforce, particularly at the interface between health and social care. Healthcare assistants have been used in areas where there is pressure to cut costs for example caring for people with complex needs or who are vulnerable. In UK (DH 2012, Francis 2013) and Ireland (Health… Continue reading →

 In the Health and Social Care faculty of Saimaa University of Applied Sciences more attention has been paid to practicing multiprofessional co-operation during nursing education. For example, in autumn 2018 a joint multiprofessional simulation training was held with the Accident and Emergency unit of South Karelia Central Hospital and the Social and health care district.… Continue reading →

The SLIPPS team enjoyed their face to face Transnational Management Group meetings in Kuopio. The team met in the University of Eastern Finland, hosted by Prof Hannele Turunen where they discussed the projects exciting developments and progress towards making publicly available resources from the project. To date the SLIPPs team have collected around 400 learning… Continue reading →

In January 1, 2017, a new regulation on management and quality improvement came into force within the Norwegian healthcare service. The regulation is a new and improved version of a previous regulation for the same purpose. The Ministry of Health wishes to focus on some key challenges within the Norwegian healthcare services. Among other things,… Continue reading →