Clinical training in the field of Health Care and Social Services
Supervised clinical training is a major part of studying in the field of health care and social services. During the training the student gets acquainted with practical tasks related to their professional studies and has a chance to apply their knowledge and skills in the working life.
Before your practical training:
If you have young customers/patients (less than 18-year-olds), you need to order and show the study counsellor a criminal record extract 4 weeks before your practical training.
The student must have his/her own dosimeter during the practical training when required by the traineeship organisation and the tasks of the traineeship. The dosimeter must be reserved in good time from the school.
Before studification:
Valid after: 1.8.2022: When planning studification, where you act with young customers/patients (less than 18-year-olds), you need to show the study counsellor a criminal record extract before starting your work period. You need to show the criminal record extract, even though the work period would take place during your employment relationship, even if you have already shown the document during your recruitment process. The guidance how to show the criminal record extract, please find the link here.
The duration of the training
Clinical training in nursing education consists of 90 ECTS credits. It includes 75 ECTS of clinical training in real client situations and 15 ECTS of thesis, which is closely connected to developing the working life practices. EU directives determine the boundaries and training environments of the clinical training in the field of health care.
For more information on the practical matters of the training, contact the training coordinators and tutor teachers of your own study field.
Lahti: Making clinical training contract?
To start the clinical training, you must provide the information about the clinical training place on the e-form. The e-form circulates to training coordinators who will appoint a training supervisor for you. After this training coordinator turns the e-form for further processing to the student services, where the clinical training contract is prepared and sent to the clinical training place.
Clinical training contract will made based on the information provided in the e-form, so please fill information carefully! Clinical training place and LAB may have a general contract, in which case a separate agreement will not be sent to the training place. Check if the contract has been made from “Placement contract list”. In any case, the practical training place information must be filled in on the e-form, even if the general contract exists!
Lahti:
Lappeenranta:
- Leaving for a practical training period, Nursing, Lappeenranta
- Leaving for a practical training period, Paramedic, Lappeenranta
In matters related to the clinical trainings, take contact to training coordinator / training supervisor.
Note! From 1.1.2023, traineeship allowances in the social and health care sector will be paid by the state, no longer by the university of applied sciences.
Placement contract list
Check whether your placement organisation is listed on the placement contract list.