Nursing

Nurses’ Confidence in Medication Administration

2019.04.16 Education, Student Life

Medico Nordplus Intensive Week 4th – 8th March 2019 The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Ålesund, Norway Vi hade möjlighet att delta i en veckas fulladdat program i den vackra staden Ålesund på Norges västkust. Staden är belägen i en fjordrik trakt omgiven av höga fjäll. Ålesund brann helt och hållet ner 1904, men byggdes, under ledning av kejsare Wilhelm II av Tyskland, snabbt upp efter branden. Ålesund är därför i dag en av världens vackraste jugendstäder. Ålesund är känd för…

NURED Finland goes abroad – Simulation pedagogy exchange in Riga!

2018.06.25 Education, Projects, Research

Dear NURED friends, A lot has been happening in the project recently! All project partners have been working together in workshops in Helsinki at Arcada UAS, where we tried to compile all of our results from the survey that we all have sent out to home care staff in our countries. It was interesting to work like this – together, discussing results and the questions that rose among use regarding…

Nurses’ confidence in medication safety – även kallad Intensive eating week

2018.04.26 Education, Student Life

En strålande chans att tjäna in 5 sp under en givande och kreativ vecka, för att inte tala om att kursen i år ordnades på Laugarvatn, Island, där de även ser till att man blir väl gödd. 4.3.2018 Söndag Vi anländer till Reykjavik, Island, där vi har några timmar på oss att se staden. Att hitta mat är i sig ingen utmaning men i och med den främmande valutan och…

Tere! Meet NURED’s Estonian team from Tallinn Health Care College!

2017.10.23 Education, Projects, Research

Dear readers of the NURED blog, Tervist! It is now time to introduce you to one of the partner countries of NURED: Estonia! Estonia’s population amounts to roughly 1,3 million, and at the end of year 2015 Estonia had approximately 7,900 employed practising nurses (Statista.com). Here are some greetings from the Estonian project team leader, Piret Tamme, Head of the Department of Vocational Training at Tallinn Health Care College: “NURED…

Arcada + Axxell + Prakticum = True!

2017.08.16 Education, Projects, Research

Welcome back to the NURED blog, we hope you’ve all enjoyed this whirlwind of a summer! (We were going to write something witty about the weather in Finland this summer, but we guess the silly weather conditions are already old news…) The project world is always a little quiet during the summer, but we’ve actually gotten some excellent work done here in Finland before our summer holidays that we will…

NURED Project implementation – How? What? Where?

2017.05.17 Education, Projects, Research

As our two previous blog entries enlightened you mostly about why our project is important and who’s behind it, You may have begun to wonder how NURED will actually be carried out. How can we reach such ambitious goals – which steps are necessary along the way? Even though we obviously feel the NURED Project is very special and unique, it works like many other projects do: by gathering information…

Meet the NURED Project Lead Partner: Finland!

2017.04.10 Education, Projects, Research

Dear readers, As promised, this week it’s time to get familiar with the NURED Project lead partner Finland & Arcada University of Applied Sciences. Finland is often presented as the land of a thousand lakes and summer villas. The land of dark winters, and a sun that never sets in the summer. The land of Mika Häkkinen, Jean Sibelius, Moomin trolls and Marimekko. There are 5.5 million of us Finns,…

“NURED” 101.

2017.03.13 Projects, Research

Welcome to the NURED Project blog on inside.arcada.fi, we are very happy that you found us! Here you will find updates about the project itself, as well as the talent behind it. But for now, let’s start at the very beginning: our logo. A good project needs a good name, so what does “NURED” stand for? Just letters thrown together, or something more? And what about the rest of the…

Active trial on Nursing Reference Center Plus

2017.02.01 Education, Research

Attention, nursing students and nurses! Until April 30. 2017 Arcada library offers you an active trial on the database Nursing Reference Center Plus (EBSCO). Here you find a collection of “nursing best practices with the premier source for evidence-based information designed specifically for nurses”. You can access care plans, watch video demonstrations, strengthen your nursing skills and learn more about evidence-based nursing. Here is a short tutorial. Use this link…