International Nurses Day 2025

- Arcada

We welcome our students, alumni and partners to celebrate International Nurses Day with us 12 May at 12:00–16:00 at Arcada. This years theme highlights the importance of nurses’ health and wellbeing.

Welcome to celebrate International Nurses Day with us!

The International Council of Nursing has announced this year's theme as ‘Our Nurses. Our Future. Caring for nurses strengthens economies. By prioritizing the wellbeing of nurses, we are ensuring that they can continue to provide the high-quality care that is critical to the health of our communities’.

This year’s theme highlights the importance of nurses’ health and wellbeing – a crucial factor for strong healthcare systems, better population health and sustainable societies. Building on the 2024 focus on the economic power of healthcare, this year we are highlighting how a healthy nursing workforce strengthens both healthcare and society. Arcada is celebrating this day with a seminar and workshops where this year’s theme runs as a common thread.

We welcome our students, alumni and partners to celebrate International Nurses Day. The event will take place at Arcada Campus and is free for everyone. 

The Ulla and Kerstin Wegelius Scholarship Fund supports the celebration of this day.

Due to a limited number of places for this event, and to know which workshop you would like to attend, you should register here by 5 May.

Programme

12:00–12:05 Welcome – Maria Forss, Dean of the School of Business and Healthcare
12:05–12:30 Take care of yourself: the importance of diet and exercise – Cia Törnblom, Senior Lecturer in Sports (in English, text in Swedish)
12:30–12:50 Dance for Health – a research based approach to strengthen mental well-being – Petra Turja, Folkhälsan (in Swedish, text in English)
12:50–13:15 When The Backbone of Care Breaks? Resilience Resources in Nursing Work – Christoffer Ericsson, Degree Programme Director, Emergency Care Systems Development and Leadership (in English, text in Swedish)
13:15–13:55 Strong and secure on the inside – to demand just the right amount and find your inner driving force –  Daphne Jensen, MSc, Career Coach (in Swedish, text in English)
14:00–14:30 Coffee break with snacks
14:30–16:00

Workshops:

  • Take care of yourself: the importance of diet and exercise (in English and Swedish)
  • Dance for Health (in English and Swedish)
  • Building Resilience Resources in Nursing Work (in English)
  • På tal om sömn (in Swedish)
  • Strong and secure on the inside – to demand just the right amount and find your inner driving force (in English and Swedish)
  • Nauruhyvinvointi: saat tietoa ja kokemusta naurun terveyttä ja hyvinvointia edistävistä vaikutuksista (in Finnish)

We reserve the right to make changes to the programme.