Strengthening knowledge and competencies of Nurse Managers for a Safe care environment Erasmus Project

Project Title

Strengthening knowledge and competencies of Nurse Managers for a Safe care environment

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Open and distance learning; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Although Patient Safety (PS) is a fundamental principle of health care (WHO, 2018), evidence suggests that a significant number of patients are often unintentionally injured whilst receiving health care, resulting in permanent injury, disability, increased length of hospital stay or even death. Nurses as the largest group of healthcare providers, have a central role in patient care with unique perspective in assessing and promoting PS in care settings (Aiken et al, 2013, 2017). In order to manage these challenges, nurse managers (NM) need a broad range of knowledge regarding human resource planning and development, leadership approaches, teamwork techniques, and change management.
The NM4SAFETY project aims to improve the quality of nursing working environment as the key factor capable of ensuring PS by strengthening the knowledge and competences of NMs as regards the strategies to minimise missed nursing care, errors of omission, or inappropriate rationing of nursing care.
The consortium of the project consists of 4 partners Institutions from 3 Erasmus Programme countries and 1 partner country with complementary knowledge and backgrounds, that will ensure the success of the project activities following a 4 axis methodology: project management, evaluation, dissemination and exploitation activities.
The project activities will be delivered mainly through 4 Intellectual outputs: IO1) development of a professional toolkit including a set of tools that learners will be able to use in their daily practice to review the concepts learnt, to strengthen the skills acquired during the training course and evaluate the best practices to be used in their daily practice. IO2) the development of the curriculum and contents that will be used in the blended learning activities IO3) the development of the online platform including networking opportunities and access to the elearning course and the live teaching course. IO4) the implementation and evaluation of the blended learning that will be tested in 20 NM in each country.
Multiplier events with 30 local participants and 5 international will be organised per partner to disseminate the event apart from other dissemination activities.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 293753 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI UDINE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• ZURCHER HOCHSCHULE FUR ANGEWANDTE WISSENSCHAFTEN
• TECHNOLOGIKO PANEPISTIMIO KYPROU
• TECH4CARE SRL
• Katholische Hochschule Mainz