Bachelors Degree in Nursing

Students in the degree programme graduate as nurses or public health nurses, who are experts in their fields. They can respond to the health care needs of individuals, families and communities.

Graduates in nursing programme can work in specialist health care or basic health care both in the public and private sectors. The public health nurse option is based on the nursing programme and qualifies graduates to work as public health nurses or ordinary nurses.

One of the professional competences of nurses is expertise in responsible nursing, including competence in health promotion, teaching and guidance skills, research and development competence, innovative service competence, leadership competence, anticipation of the future of the sector and society, and welfare technology competence.

Students develop from having basic skills into experts of the field, in line with their personal objectives. As experts in their own field they can handle central tasks in nursing and public health care, and are able to develop their work independently.

Nursing programme includes a great amount of training, which allows students to try out their future profession in practice and to work in different environments.