Simulation pedagogy in learning ethics in practice in health care

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

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Description (EN):

Ethical capability is an important part of a healthcare professional’s competence. The WHO Global Competency Model states several core qualities that are related to ethical competence, for example active listening and respecting others’ individuality according to the ethical and legal framework and personal values. Unfortunately, about 30 % of patients´ complaints concern unethical behavior of the health care staff: there are problems with ethical sensitivity and respectful communication. Today ethical competence has an important role, due to for example increased number of patients with different cultural backgrounds, like immigrants and refugees. Including these ethical aspects in nursing students´ education is a totally new perspective, but extremely important. The overall objective of the project is to create three common study courses (6 ETCS) in order to develop more aligned VET programmes and increase ethical competence of nursing students in the Central Baltic region. As a result, the courses are embedded in each partner organisations curricula: Turku University of Applied Sciences, Riga Medical College of the University of Latvia and The Swedish Red Cross University College. Common courses and teaching methods ensure the more harmonized education level in the region and also more harmonized competence level of nurses working in these countries. Development of the ethical competence of nursing students is done with help of multi-various methods, like simulation and practical training. Simulation environment is a safe and effective way for students to learn and practice complex ethical skills. The patients and health care providers in the Central Baltic region need more nurses who possess equal and ethically competitive nursing care. This can be achieved by building more aligned curricula in nursing education. Improved ethical skills serve the needs of healthcare providers, promote the mobility of workforce and increase the quality of patient care.

Achievements (EN):

SimE - ethical competence for nursing students: The SimE project improved nursing students’ ethical competence in Finland, Sweden and Latvia. The main achievement of the project were the three aligned study courses (6 ETCS) on simulation pedagogy for nursing students, and an e-handbook on the course themes. Thus the project increased the share of aligned vocational education training curricula in the region. The course topics were: 1) Basic Ethics in Health Care (2 ETCs), 2) The Ethical Coffee Room (1 ETC), 3) Simulations in Ethical Issues (3 ETCs). In addition to providing a general introduction to ethics in health care, the project provides tools for understanding the essential concepts of ethics, moral and norms and exploring different ethical values that are often culture related. This will ease the nursing students to meet patients from different background. The project courses encourage the students to familiarise with ethical guidelines and articles but also patient care studies. Anonymous online environment is provided for students to discuss with peer student group on student’s own experiences on challenging ethical situations that they face during the clinical practise. Furthermore, the courses provide simulation practises on different ethical scenarios, after which the students give and receive feedback on their ethical activity from the peer students. Course material was compiled in the e-Handbook with the guidelines how to implement the course. Website: https://simethics.eu/

Website: http://centralbaltic.eu/

Expected Results (EN): R4.2. Increased share of aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region

Expected Outputs (EN):

The main results answer directly to the programme result indicator by increasing the share of aligned VET programmes in the region. The main outcome are the courses 1-3 (6 ETCS). As a result of the project the courses will be embedded in partner organizations’ curricula. Common courses and more aligned teaching methods will ensure the more harmonized education level in the region and also more harmonized competence level of nurses working in these countries. Course 1 Basic ethics in health care (2 ETCS) consists of the basic theories of ethics. Learning methods are online lectures, web seminar and practice trainings. The evaluation of students´ ethical competence is based on test and evaluation criteria (0-5). Course 2 Ethical Coffee Room (1 ETC) is arranged during the clinical practice placements in hospital or nursing homes. The students will evaluate and discuss together in Ethical Coffee Room (electronical platform environment developed for the purpose, ECR) about ethical issues and dilemmas what they meet during their practice. The mentors and teachers will supervise the discussions in ECR and give example cases, perspectives and advices to think about ethical questions and solutions. The assessment is based on active participation in discussion in ECR (accepted/not accepted). Course 3 Ethics in simulations (3 ETCS) consists of six simulation practices. The students have preliminary exercises before the simulation sessions and afterwards they reflectively discuss their own ethical sensitivity and competence. The students also practice giving feedback on ethical activity for the peers. The assessment is based on accepted participation in simulations (accepted/not accepted). The whole material will be compiled together to an eHandbook. This handbook consists of various learning materials (theory lectures in videos, scenarios, ECR, exercises, etc.) and is freely available. All the VET institutions are able to use these courses as a part of their curricula.

Thematic information

Health and social services Education and training Social inclusion and equal opportunities

Specific Objective: More aligned vocational education and training (VET) programmes in the Central Baltic region

Thematic Objective: (10) investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing education and training infrastructure

Investment Priority: (10 ETC) ETC specific, for cross-border cooperation: investing in education, training and vocational training for skills and lifelong learning by developing and implementing joint education, vocational training and training schemes

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: Turun ammattikorkeakoulu Oy

Department: Faculty of Health and Well-being

Address: Joukahaisenkatu 3 A, 20520 Turku, Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.tuas.fi

Total budget: EUR 105 295.50

ERDF budget: EUR 78 971.62

Swedish Stiftelsen Rödakorshemmet/Röda Korsets Högskola

Name: Swedish Stiftelsen Rödakorshemmet/Röda Korsets Högskola

Department: Department of Nursing and Care

Address: Hälsovägen 11, SE-141 21 Huddinge, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rkh.se/

Total budget: EUR 85 350.00

ERDF budget: EUR 64 012.50

Latvijas Universitātes Rīgas Medicīnas koledža

Name: Latvijas Universitātes Rīgas Medicīnas koledža

Department: Nursing Department

Address: Hipokrata Street 1, LV-1079 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rmkoledza.lu.lv/

Total budget: EUR 67 067.50

ERDF budget: EUR 57 007.38

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Project name (EN): Simulation pedagogy in learning ethics in practice in health care

Project acronym: SimE

Project start date: 2017-10-01

Project end date: 2019-09-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 257 713.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 199 991.50

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 199 991.50.

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Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG V-A Finland - Estonia - Latvia - Sweden (Central Baltic)

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2023-11-11

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137 / 137 (100%)

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663 / 663 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://centralbaltic.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-08, 2023-01-12 and 2024-03-08.

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Simulation pedagogy in learning ethics in practice in health care

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