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