International week for Nursing 2013!



International week for Nursing 2013 with the subject Family Nursing and Cultural Diversity of Nursing began on Monday with a cheerful performance by the TAMKvoice choir of staff and students.



TAMKvoice -choir with conductor Risto Hiltunen at the welcome event

Guests from six different countries gathered at TAMK's Kuntokatu 4 premises and started getting to know each other and the topics of the week. The guests will be having presentations about their own countries' interesting health care or nursing topics like Homeless attendance in Madrid or Nutrition in Kenya. The other events of the week consist of for example lectures, student presentations and a visit to the Tampere University Hospital.



Guests of the Internation week for Nursing



Text: Tuula Härkönen & Panu Alanko

Photos: Tuula Härkönen

Two groups from Miyagi University

In the end of August two groups from Miyagi University, Japan, arrived in TAMK for study visits. Three Nursing students participated in an intensive course called Gerontological Nursing. At the same time Research & Development department was hosting a group of six Miyagi students.

The nursing students Yoriko Arashida, Risa Nishiyama and Chiho Saito had a full programme for the whole two weeks. They participated in the lectures with Finnish nursing students and they had a chance to see different aspects of elderly nursing in Finland like hospitals, retirement homes and home care. The organizer of the visit, Principal Lecturer in School of Health Care, Sirpa Salin was really pleased to see how eager the Miyagi students were to learn. She also got lot of new energy when she saw the enthuasism of the students.

The girls become friends with TAMK nursing students and luckily they're going to meet again next spring when the TAMK student group is going to visit Miyagi University.

In the end of the visit Principal Lecturer Sirpa Salin handed out the Certificates to the Miyagi students.

The other Miyagi group consisted of six students from different fields like Tourism, Design and Business studies. The aim of the programme was to innovate new concepts in collaboration with R&D staff and their projects. During the visit the student stayed at home accomodation so they got the first-hand experience of Finnish homes, families and culture.

Looking forward to having active cooperation with Miyagi University in the future as well!

Text and photo: Kaisa Merilahti, International Services

International Study Week on Cultural Diversity on Nursing and Family Nursing 21-25 May

Every May you can find the active and international School of Health Care in Tampere University of Applied Sciences!

The School of Health Care of TAMK organized international study week on 21-25 May 2012. The week included lectures and presentations from teachers, students and staff members, who are working in the field of health care and internationalization. Our international guests also made study visits to a nursery, Tampere University Hospital and the new patient hotel Nordic Care.

Themes of the week were family nursing and cultural diversity on nursing. Guests came from Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Kenya, Lithuania, Spain, Turkey and UK. Also all exchange students in School of Health Care and students from Norway Hedmark University College and Estonia Tallinna Health Care College participated in this week. 

There were also free time activities during the week. Exchange students were having a picnic in Viiking Island and teachers went to dinner cruise by boat seeing beautiful Pyhäjärvi lake. The weather was favoring this week with sun.

Head of Degree programme Pia Keiski welcomed guests to the TAMK

International coordinators in Nursing  Gitte Taulo and Sanna Laiho introduced 

Finland, TAMK and the Degree Programme in Nursing

Gitte presented the school premises and gave instructions for the week.

During the week participation was very active and all presentations were very interesting!

Mogambi Linda Kwamboka lectured about nursing profession and education in Kenya.

Teachers in the expert forum discussing about The European Qualifications Framework.

On Friday there were studyvisits to visiting teachers and students in Tampere University Hospital, Day Care and Patient Hotel.

The international week was very fruitful. Over 200 students participated week, visiting teachers were 16 and TAMK´s own teachers participated actively in lectures with their students.

We already wish you welcome to visit us next May 2013!

Text and photos: Miina Nupponen & Gitte Taulo