NURED – Nurse + Education + Development

The EU-funded Interreg Central Baltic NURED project, 2016-2019, aims to improve the education of Home Care Nurses (HCN) in the Central Baltic region (“nurse” + “education” + “development” = “NURED”), by developing two new curricula for HCN education.

The challenges faced in home care nursing are very similar in the Central Baltic countries involved in this project (Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Latvia). These aforementioned challenges include the demographic challenge of large elderly age-groups, the constantly increasing need of home care services as well as challenges in recruitment to home care. The two new curricula will aim at giving future home care nurses better tools to tackle the challenges.

In spring 2017, a survey was sent out to home care staff regarding their education and work. The development of the new curricula will be carried out by improving existing curricula based on the survey results, in order to better prepare home care nurse students for the demands of elderly care and the care of people with intellectual disabilities, as well as teamwork and collaboration within home care staff. The new curricula will especially focus on the incorporation of ICT solutions and skills, e-learning/distance learning and the inclusion of stress and time management skills, psychosocial work as well as ergonomics. Furthermore, the NURED project hopes to increase satisfaction towards both education and work, as well as to highlight the value of self-directed learning and lifelong learning.

Project Team

Finland

Jukka Surakka
Head of research, Arcada University of Applied Sciences

Anu Grönlund
Degree program director for Public Health Nursing, Arcada University of Applied Sciences
PhD-student, Mälardalen University

Pamela Gray
Degree program director for Nursing (English) and Senior Lecturer, Arcada University of Applied Sciences

Maria Grotell
Project Assistant for NURED, Arcada University of Applied Sciences
Public health nurse, RN


Sweden

Christine Gustafsson
Director of research, RNT, PHD and Senior Lecturer, Mälardalen University

Sylvia Olsson
PhD-student and Lecturer, Mälardalen University


Estonia

Piret Tamme
Head of vocational training and teaching staff, Tallinn Healthcare College


Latvia

Ivars Vanadzins
Director at Institute of Occupational Safety and Environmental Health, Riga Stradins University

NURED material

Download the NURED Curriculas for home care nursing


The developed 16 ECTS NURED Curriculas (EQF5 & EQF6) for home care nurses within the Baltic Sea Region (in English) may be freely downloaded and used in accordance with copyright law.
Source & Copyright: NURED, an EU Interreg Central Baltic funded project.
 

If further information is needed, please, contact Anu Grönlund (anu.gronlund@arcada.fi)
 

NURED Project report


You are welcome to download a short report on our project, highlighting the needs behind this project as well as how we reached our end results.


NURED educational videos


The NURED curriculas for home care nursing (EQF levels 5 & 6) will consist of four separate modules. These videos are short, educational videos regarding one of several learning outcomes from each of the four modules.

Video / Module 1: Teamwork and professional skills in the home care setting (Arcada UAS, Finland) https://arcada.zoom.us/recording/share/lvRduu7qGbqvnz1-sAXY6iuE8sO8HfnteD9-evTS3gCwIumekTziMw?startTime=1550066947000

Video / Module 2: Occupational stress, stress and time management (Riga Stradins University, Latvia) https://panopto.rsu.lv/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d216f6b4-e3c2-4bea-a02b-a9d700bc1310

Video/ Module 3: Usage of e-services and e-products (Tallinn Health Care College, Estonia) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdeMbbUUD8E ​

Video / Module 4: Pedagogical attitude and way of work (PFA) in intellectual disability practice in the home care context (Mälardalen University, Sweden) https://play.mdh.se/media/t/0_ed0slr6a

 

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