Department of Nursing Science - News

The doctoral dissertation by MNSc Tuija Ylitörmänen showed that there was a connection between nurse–nurse collaboration and job satisfaction.

Undocumented women in Finland access pregnancy care later than others. Yet, screening of infectious diseases at the early stages of pregnancy would be particularly important to these women.

MNSc Emilia Laukkanen's PhD thesis showed that coercive measures are used frequently in psychiatric care, and nursing managers’ attitudes are associated with their use.

“There is a need for researchers to talk more casually about their research and to give and get peer support,” says University Teacher Maliheh Nekouei. For this purpose, the Department of Nursing Science launched Love for Research meetings.

The University of Eastern Finland’s doctoral conferment ceremony at the Kuopio Campus is postponed to 9–11 June 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Kristiina Kariniemi-Örmälä’s PhD study concerns important topics which are seldom studied in nursing sciences; older people's emergency nursing and care left undone.

The doctoral dissertation of Tarja Turtiainen, MHSc, describes the perceptions of social and health care teachers’ approaches to teaching and the conditions of work.

The doctoral thesis of Kirsi Leivonen, MHSc, covered the implementation of lean management in Finnish health care.

A tool was further developed that can accurately measure the stress levels and stressors that nursing students perceive in their clinical training.