Bachelor's in Health Care

Centria University of Applied Sciences is a public university of applied sciences in Finland. It was founded in 1991 and is located in the city of Kokkola. The university has over 5,000 students and 600 staff members. It offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programs in the fields of business, engineering, IT, health care, and social sciences. Centria University of Applied Sciences is ranked #501-600 in the QS World University Rankings 2024.

During your nursing studies, you will learn interpersonal and interactional skills, guidance skills, decision-making skills, as well as diverse caretaking skills. Your main task as a registered nurse is to ensure clients’ health and safety, which means you need to be responsible, cautious, and accurate. Nurses’ work is usually done in multi-professional teams. The ability and skills to work independently are required in nurses’ work as well. The nursing studies at Centria are very practical, and from the first year onwards, you get to dive deep into the different fields of nursing. Theory courses are carried out as contact teaching, online studies, and independent studies. Nurses must be familiar with different treatments and procedures, so part of the teaching happens in workshops and simulations. In simulations, you get to practice real-life care situations as part of a team or a group. We also have experts from working life visiting our lectures. Nursing studies include several practical training periods in different environments, such as hospitals and health centres. During the practical training, you get to familiarize yourself with various work assignments with the support of instructors from the workplace and your Centria teacher. The nursing teachers at Centria University of Applied Sciences have extensive experience in different sectors of nursing. We are proud of the fact that we know our students and can give them very individual teaching. We also have modern study spaces and a diverse variety of different teaching equipment – during your studies, you get to use the same equipment that nurses use in clinical settings.