The aim of the educational programme
The health care educational programme aims at educating nurses, experts in their own field who will be able to develop themselves and develop working life in changing multicultural and internationalising environments. This educational programme provides nurses with the capacity to meet individual, familial and social health demands, while making the patients/clients feel that they have been taken care of with dignity and as human beings.
The professional skill aimed at in the nurse education is determined by the health and social political objectives of the society, as well as national and international rules and regulations. These objectives require securing people’s well-being. The aim in health care is to promote health, prevent ill-health, take care of the sick, contribute the rehabilitation, as well as to support the dying. The education is also intended to provide the student with a broad view of the social and health field.
The nursing and health care studies lead to a professional degree in health care. After the completion of this degree, the student is certified as a registered nurse (regulations concerning health care professionals 559/94 Decree 564/94). The nursing studies meet the requirements for nursing education outlined in the European Council directives 77/453/EEC, 89/595/EEC. The education enables the student to work as an expert in both the public and private sectors of health care, and in self-employment.
Learning in clinical studies
The EEC directives (77/453/ETY, 89/595/EEC) concerning nursing studies established that the nursing care education consists of theoretical and clinical studies. The clinical studies apply to that part of nursing care where the student’s clinical learning is planned, implemented and evaluated, not only as a member of a team, but also as a leader. The minimum length of the clinical studies is half the minimum duration of which the education is three years or 4600 hours. The clinical studies thus comprise minimum 57,5 study weeks of 40 hours. The clinical studies are supervised and supported by qualified nurses, but clinicall learning is facililitated and assessed by a nurse education. The nursing students participate in the activities of the clinical units as far as these are associated with their studies.
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