Safer Working Management
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Maritta Välimäki, PhD, RN
Professor
Nurse manager, Hospital District of Southwest Finland
mava@utu.fi
tel.int +358-2-333 8495
CO-INVESTIGATORS
Raija Kontio
Minna Anttila
AIM
To support wellbeing and quality of work for nurses working on psychiatric wards by developing evidence-based and effective interventions to interact with aggressive patients and for violence risk assessment
CONTENT
- literature reviews
- wellbeing and health measurements of nurses
- development of a user-centered intervention
- acceptability, functionality and use of a new intervention
- e-Learning course and written guidelines
IMPLICATIONS
- research being made among nurses
- use of diverse and tested methods
- training about how to predict violence incidents and to maintain risk management in nursing curriculums
- use and skills to use evidence-based knowledge
- involvement of variety of groups; patients, nurses, relatives
- involvement of organization leaders
- encouragement to make development recommendations
Students
Tella Lantta
Terhi Suvanne
Virve Pekurinen
COLLABORATORS
- Hospital district of Helsinki and Uusimaa
- The Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
- Department of Epidemiology, National School of Public Health, Brazil
- University of Nottingham, UK
FUNDERS
- Finnish Work Environment Fund (project 111298, years 2012-2013)
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- University of Turku