Degree Programme in Nursing
DEGREE PROGRAMME IN NURSING (taught in finnish)
Degree
Bachelor of Nursing
Title
Registered Nurse (AMK)
Option
Option in Nursing
Credit requirement
210 New ECTS (hereinafter OP)
The degree programme trains nurses (AMK). The mission of the nurse in society is to support individuals, families and organisations to define, achieve and maintain their health in changing life situations and conditions. Nurses work in primary health care, specialist health care, social care and in fields within the private and third sectors. Nursing education teaches students to use nursing to help clients and patients in collaboration with other professionals in social and health care. Clients and patients include people of all ages from newborns to the elderly, likewise their families and significant others. Students learn to implement nursing which promotes and maintains health, prevents illness, heals, alleviates suffering and rehabilitates. Nurses help patients and their families to face sickness, crisis, invalidity and death, when there is a need for professional support for mental, physical and social problems. The patients’ families and others may be a source of strength to the patient or may themselves need support. What nurses do is governed by values, ethical principles and regulations. Due to the nature of nursing, psychological assessment is used to ensure that applicants are suitable.
Professional studies in nursing are based on both professional and nursing knowledge. Other studies include medical subjects, natural sciences, social sciences and behavioural sciences in the selection of content account is taken of the expertise demands of today’s and tomorrow’s information society. As their studies progress students develop their people skills, ethical base, critical faculty and knowledge of cultures. Studies also make it possible to learn to direct oneself and one’s group, likewise provide skills to influence the further development of nursing. The acquisition of quality professional skill requires that students be capable of applying research findings critically and of constantly seeking up-to-date information. In addition to sound all-round expertise, focal areas include family nursing, social and health care entrepreneurship and capability for catastrophe and crisis work.
Some Professional Studies (nursing) are implemented applying Problem Based Learning (PBL). Studies are pursued in small groups in which the students under tutorial supervision may define the learning tasks required for a certain patient’s case and seek information using a wide variety of sources. The small group then processes the jointly acquired information and the understanding gained about the situation. In small groups students criticise, gain new insights from one another, learn about problem-solving and working together. Learning is supplemented by in a varied manner with written assignments, seminars, lectures by experts and demonstrations of different kinds of expertise and knowledge. Teachers assigned to each new student group (general tutors) direct the general progress of studies, the preparation of practice paths and practical arrangements. Some studies are taken over the Net.
In addition to the construction of a theoretical foundation, studies also include supervised practical training in the social and health care service system. Treatment measures are learned in the classroom situation in what are known as skills workshop sessions. Nursing students may take clinical studies in primary health care (for example a health centre), in specialist nursing (for example a central hospital), in the social and health care learning centre Optiimi, in social and health care organisations, in institutions for research and treatment and in the private sector. Students are encouraged to go on international exchange in the course of their studies, when they will experience novel vistas in nursing and multiculturalism. There is a student society which safeguards the interests of students, supports new students and arranges recreational activities.
Basic studies prepare students for higher education, for the operating environment of the profession and for the acquisition of study skills. They equip students with communicative skills in both the official languages of Finland and in one foreign language. The credit requirement is 210 ECTS credits (hereinafter OP), of which supervised clinical studies account for 86 op (75 op + 11 op of skills workshop training). One OP is taken to represent 25-30 hours of work on the part of the student. The recommended duration of studies is 3.5 years. Students may also progress according to a personal curriculum (HOPS), owing, for example, to changes in their personal circumstances. Studies on the degree programme in nursing are governed by the regulations of Lahti University of Applied Sciences, the instructions of the Faculty of Social and Health Care, the University of Applied Sciences Act (351/2003), the University of Applied Sciences Decree (352/2003) and the EU directives and recommendations of the Ministry of Education, Finland. A person who has completed the degree programme in nursing is entitled to exercise that profession in all Member States of the European Union.
Degree programme in nursing
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Studies |
Year for completion |
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2 |
3 |
4 |
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BASIC STUDIES |
22 |
22 |
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Basic studies compulsory for all |
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14 |
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01PSUO |
Finnish language and communication |
4 |
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4 |
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01PRUO |
Swedish language |
3 |
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3 |
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01PVIEKIE |
Foreign language |
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3 |
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3 |
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01PJYT |
Studies in entrepreneurship |
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4 |
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4 |
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Other basic studies |
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8 |
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08TIETOT05 |
Information technology |
3 |
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3 |
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08FYHOSOY05
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Common basic studies for degree programmes in physiotherapy, nursing and social services |
5 |
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5 |
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PROFESSIONAL STUDIES |
188 |
188 |
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08SAIRAMM05 |
Learning and growing into the nursing profession |
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6 |
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08LAITYHT05 |
Joint component of the faculty |
0,5 |
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0,5 |
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08KOULERI05 |
Specific component of the degree programme |
1,5 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
5,5 |
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+ integrating subjectsj1 op (A) |
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08HOITIYT05 |
Knowledge of nursing science as the core of nursing |
6 |
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6 |
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08KLIINOS05 |
Clinical expertise |
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46 |
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08HOITPET05 |
Basic skills in nursing |
11 |
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11 |
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08HOIMIRI05 |
Nursing in cases of mental health and addiction and in crises + integrating subjects 1 op (B) |
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7 |
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7 |
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08LAPSNUV05 |
Nursing children and young people and supporting parenthood + integrating subjects 1 op (C) |
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7 |
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7 |
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08PITKÄAI05 |
Nursing chronic and aged patients |
3 |
9 |
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12 |
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08KRIISAT05 |
Nursing critically ill patients and patients coming for operations + integrating subjects 1 op (E) |
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1 |
8 |
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9 |
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08TERVEDO05 |
Promoting health, learning and directing in nursing |
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5 |
5 |
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08JOHTAJU05 |
Leadership and quality expertise in the nurse’s work |
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5 |
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5 |
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08TUTKEHI05 |
Research and development |
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6 |
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6 |
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08LÄÄKLUO05 |
Studies in medical and natural sciences |
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15 |
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08LÄÄKPE105 |
Basics of medical science I |
7 |
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7 |
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08LÄÄKPE205 |
Basics of medical science II |
4 |
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4 |
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08LÄÄKPE305 |
Basics of medical science III |
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4 |
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4 |
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08KÄYTYHT05 |
Behavioural and social subjects (integrated) |
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6 |
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08INTEG-A05 |
A:integrated |
1 |
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1 |
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08INTEG-B05 |
B:integrated |
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1 |
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1 |
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08INTEG-C05 |
C:integrated |
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1 |
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1 |
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08INTEG-D05 |
D:integrated |
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1 |
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1 |
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08INTEG-E05 |
E:integrated |
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1 |
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1 |
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08INTEG-F05 |
F:integrated |
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1 |
1 |
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08ELECTIVE STUDIES |
3 |
3 |
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08HARJOIT05 CLINICAL STUDIES |
75 |
75 |
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08HARH105 |
Clinical studies 1. |
12 |
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12 |
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08HARH205 |
Clinical studies 2. |
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12 |
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12 |
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08HARH305 |
Clinical studies 3. |
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12 |
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12 |
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08HARH405 |
Clinical studies 4. |
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12 |
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12 |
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08HARH505 |
Clinical studies 5. |
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12 |
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12 |
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08HARH605 |
Clinical studies 6. |
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15 |
15 |
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08OPINNÄT05 BACHELOR’S THESIS |
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12 |
3 |
15 |
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TOTAL DEGREE PROGRAMME |
210 |
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