Finding future job in healthcare in Finland

Zuzana Fričovská, DVS 2A, 2008

The health center in Keminmaa

There are nurse´s clothes

The emergency

The center for seniors

Vocational school of healthcare in Kemi

Vocational school of healthcare

• 1930 – building was established

• It was renovated 4 years ago ( modern technigue )

• There are 450 students, 45 teachers and 4 office workers

• 4 stations : beauty therapist, hairdressers, massage and nursing

Vocational school of healthcare

• They have 29 weeks of training in hospital during 3 years

• They are also under supervision of head nurse• After this school, they can teach in kindergarden,

work as a nurse or in houses for seniors• Nurses can´t take blood from veins but only from

the fingers• If the ward learns taking blood – they can do it

Vocational school of healthcare

• They needn´t to learn the Latin – only doctors must learn it at university

• But they learn the Anatomy and the Fysiology

• They don‘t have Surgery

• Nurses must pass every course – to go to another year

Vocational school of healthcare

• After special course in hospital they can take blood from veins. when they don‘t have this course, just registered nurses can take blood from veins.

Vocational school of healthcare

• To go to university they must do exams like at our country

• To write kind of seminar – Final thesis

• No A – level

• From this school,students are assistants

• Teachers must have an university title Mgr.

The university of nursing in Kemi

The university in Kemi

• Nursing

• Public nursing

• Fysioterapist

• Students have 20hours of exercices and 20 hours they have to learn alone in library

• 21 computers, magazines and books in English, Finnish and Swedish languages

The university in Kemi

• Students practise : foot care, blood test, urine test, gymnastic, exercice, check eyes, ears, advising diet, visiting old people, measuring blood pressure, take away stiches, EKG, meassuring fat %, walking with old people

• They use gymnastic in their free time or teach how to exercice

The university in Kemi

• 1 goup = 20 students

• They have 120 places a year

• Situation is very good after graduating

• Everybody finds a job

• It is a real motivation to be nurse in Finland

• An offering job in Sweden and Norway - high sallaries

The university in Kemi

• Studnig at university in Finland not depends on family, money, …

• Students must write scientific final thesis and write it only in Finnish language

• from university – they will be registered nurses

The student´s classes for training

…

• According to my opinion, the Finnish girls and boys have great change to be really good nurse

• The motivation is guite high !!!• And maybe this is the problem in the

Czech Republic, students don‘t have good motivation to do this kind of work and the sallaries are so miserable

• So I hope it will change.