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Basics of Healthcare and Organisation
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:23.03.2022 17:05:19
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LF_171 | LQF level: | Level 5 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 1.00 | ECTS: | 1.50 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Clinical Medicine; Health Care | Target Audience: | Medical Services | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Gunta Bēta | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | RSU Liepāja Branch | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Liepāja, Riņķu Street 24/26, lf rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 63442118, +371 63442119, +371 63484632 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 0 | Class Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 0 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 8 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not required. | ||||||||
| Objective: | Acquire basic knowledge of the principles of the healthcare organisation. Raise awareness of the place and role of the chosen profession in health care. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | The healthcare system in the world and Latvia. Principles of the organisation and management of health care. Main international and Latvian health policy documents. Legal basis for the healthcare system; principles for the financing of health care. Types of organisation structures, changes in structure, setting up an effective organisation structure. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Management of organisational resources (tangible and intangible), monitoring the efficient use of resources. Analysis of organisational errors, experience sharing within the organisation, analysis of future competences. Principles of human resource management in health care. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Workforce forecasting and planning. Decision-making process and methods. Assessing alternatives in the decision-making process. Group decision-making. Regulatory documents governing the professional activity of a masseur. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | External control of the healthcare organisation. Quality management: characteristics, overview of quality levels and quality systems. | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Students prepare a presentation on a topic relevant to the profession they are studying, based on the topics covered: Basic health policy values, documents. Development of health care. Healthcare legislation. The organisational structure of Latvian public health care. Documentation regulating the work of a masseur. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Presentation: 70% - An individual company or a company created by a natural person, or Potential new structure for a healthcare organisation model. Test: the percentage of the final score of 30%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Test | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Knows internationally accepted core values that form a basis for health policy; key international and Latvian health policy documents. Will be aware of the organisation and financing of health care, social assistance and education systems, models of financing rehabilitation services, and public and private (client) responsibilities in this area. | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will identify the necessary provision for professional aspects of masseur in the organisational structure and management of Latvian public health care. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will be able to plan and organise own work as a masseur and the workplace, working independently or in a team. Will be able to comply with the requirements of the legislation in the professional field of medicine. Will be able to organise their activities in a professional manner in accordance with the professional standard. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Nacionālais veselības dienests | ||||||||
| 2 | Justin A. Ramirez. Public leadership. 2011 (akceptējams izdevums) | ||||||||
| 3 | Noteikumi par obligātajām prasībām ārstniecības iestādēm un to struktūrvienībām | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Ārstniecības likums [https://likumi.lv/doc.php?id=44108] Veselības aprūpes pakalpojumu organizēšanas un samaksas kārtība | ||||||||
| 2 | Veselības aprūpes finansēšanas likums | ||||||||
| 3 | World Health Organization | ||||||||
