International Separate Application
Bachelor of Health Care
Laurea’s nursing programme offers high-quality Education and hands-on training in both Basic and advanced nursing skills. The Bachelor’s degree in nursing makes you eligible to work within the EU without additional training.
Programme info
- Degree programme: Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Nursing
- Degree title: Bachelor of Health Care
- Duration of studies: 210 cr, 3,5 years
As a nurse your job is to support the overall health of people and their families. The most important areas of expertise in a nurse’s job include support for health and functional ability, prevention and treatment of illnesses and disabilities, support for recovery and rehabilitation and alleviation of suffering. As an expert in nursing, you will monitor the patient’s condition, administer medication, coordinate the overall treatment and provide guidance for patients and their family members. Encounters with customers and good social skills are also important areas of a nurse’s work.
What is it like to study Health Care?
The programme taught in English includes a lot of contact teaching and face-to-face instruction. The student groups are multicultural and international, and the ideas of good health vary greatly between cultures. One of the benefits of contact teaching is the opportunity to discuss the definitions of health, illness and family with others and reach a common understanding.
This international Separate Application Programme will be implemented as a functional bilingual education. No prior knowledge of Finnish is required. Each course will include Finnish language studies alongside the subject-specific studies. In the programme taught in English, the core competence studies are also taught in English. As for complementary studies, it is your choice whether you want to study in Finnish or English.
You will study the skills required of a nurse in various theory lessons, workshops and simulation exercises. In addition, the studies include 60 credits’ worth of work placements in authentic nursing environments, such as hospital wards or health centers.
In your work as a nurse, you will meet people representing different cultures and backgrounds. Therefore, it is important to possess international and multicultural knowledge, regardless of whether you will be based in Finland or abroad. Therefore, studying in a multicultural learning environment and improving your language skills during your studies will be very useful for your career. You may also go abroad on an exchange programme or work placement.
Core Competence
- Theoretical education 90 ECTS
- Clinical education 90 ECTS
Complementary competence
- Complementary education 30 ECTS
- Deepening of knowledge in the selected area for example acute care, medical care, mental health care, social- and health services and safety
Employment opportunities
As an expert in nursing, you will monitor the patient’s condition, administer medication, coordinate the overall treatment and provide guidance for patients and their family members. The most important areas of expertise in a nurse’s job include support for health and functional ability, prevention and treatment of illnesses and disabilities, support for recovery and rehabilitation and alleviation of suffering. Encounters with clients and good social skills are also important areas of a nurse’s work.
Nurses graduating from Laurea have excellent employment opportunities in a wide range of nursing environments, and in national and international organizations. According to your personal interest, you may be employed in an inpatient ward, an operating theatre, home care services, a pediatric ward, a psychiatric hospital, geriatric care, substance abuse care or work in third sector organizations like the Red Cross, the Heart Association, and mental health associations etc.
Because of the compulsory and complementary Finnish language courses, Laurea’s nursing graduates have the sufficient skills in Finnish to be employed in Finland.
You will develop networks with workplaces already during your studies through different projects and placements. Nurses often find a summer job as substitute practical nurses, already after their first work placement, which is usually in elderly care. After earning 140 credits, you can also start working as a substitute registered nurse.
For more information, please contact by e-mail at education.export@laurea.fi.