Laurea

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Laurea

• FINLAND
• Nursing Education in Finland
• Teaching and learning strategies
• in clinical training

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Finland in a Nutshell

• The second northernmost country in the world
• Total area 338,145 km2
• Population 5,2 million
• Republic - President Mrs Tarja Halonen
• Capital Helsinki

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Seasons

• 4 distinct seasons
• A cold, dark and snowy winter
• A short spring, when everything explodes into
  life again
• A mild and warm summer
• A bright autumn famous for its spectacular colours

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Finnish Nature

• In Finland we have
• 30 000 islands
• 200 000 lakes
• 2/3 of the area is covered by forests green
  gold

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Laurea Polytechnic - Getting a Good Grip on
Things

• A polytechnic offering multidisciplinary
  education situated in the Helsinki metropolitan
  area
• 8 institutes in Uusimaa province, in the centre
  of Finnish industry, services and information
  technology
• 8000 students - one of the largest polytechnics
  in Finland

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Location of the central administration and the
institutes
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Social Services, Health and Sports

• 3 degree programmes to choose from
• Nursing (Nursing or Public Health Nursing)
• Physiotherapy
• Social Services

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The Finnish Educational System in Nursing Studies
Workplace
Universities 3 lt years
Polytechnics 3½ / 4 years
Vocational Education Upper Secondary -
3 years
Education - 3 years
Compulsory Comprehensive School 9 years
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The Structure of the Programme in nursing /
public health nursing 140 / 160 cr
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Credit (cr) Study Week

• The extent of a degree programme is measured in
  credits
• The term credit refers to 40 hours of work (1
  credit 1,5 ECTS)
• A full-time academic year is equivalent to
  approximately 40 credits
• The extent of most degree programmes is either
  140 or 160 credits 3,5 or 4 years of full-time
  study

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The theory-practice gap has been the subject of
much debate with Nursing

• Students spend months in the classroom before
  their first exposure to clinical practice.
• The teacher, nursing student and supervisor meet
  for evaluation twice during the practice.

To shrink the gap between theory and practice

• During the intensive week the nursing student,
  teacher and supervisor nurse the patients
  together. At the end of each day they reflect on
  the various learning situations.

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The effect of intensive week, focus on learning
to take blood pressure

• The focus of my postgraduate research is to
  describe the teaching of blood pressure
  measurement closer to clinical practice learning
  so as to eradicate the theory-practice gap in
  student learning.
• It is important to find out what the effect of
  intensive week is.

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• The ultimate aim of the study is to find out if
  the teaching and learning strategy in question
  can be utilized in the development of a strategy
  for a better integration of theory and practice
  in nursing
• Bridging theory and practice, obtaining optimal
  benefit from the limited resources and responding
  to changes in health care require co-operation
  and appropriate division of responsibilities
  between education and working life.