Health Care, Social Services and Rehabilitation

We offer customised solutions through long-term partnerships in the fields of health care, social services, and rehabilitation. Our highly skilled and qualified experts have strong expertise in providing customised intensive courses, degree modules, and bridging programmes for professionals and service providers in the healthcare field. We also cooperate with other international higher education institutions to provide joint bachelor or master’s degree programmes. Our proven track record in education system development makes us valuable partners for large-scale expertise consultation projects.

Expertise Areas

  • Developing the quality of higher education in nursing, rehabilitation, and social services
  • Competence-based curricula development and evaluation for social and health care education
  • Capacity building of teachers, educators, and health care professionals
  • Finnish innovations in primary health care
  • Design and use of Digital Rehabilitation and innovation enabling futureproof rehabilitation services
  • Music pedagogue formed from multi-professional perspectives

Services

Expertise Development and Capacity Building

Our Master Classes, intensive programmes, and thematic study visits to Finland are designed for educators and professionals in the fields of health care, social services, and rehabilitation. The programme contents focus on e.g. Community Care, Primary Healthcare, Health Promotion and Preventive Care, Cardiac Care, Palliative Care, Gerontological Nursing, and are also built on request.

Development of degree programmes in health care and wellbeing

We develop and deliver Joint Bachelor/Master’s Degree Programmes, in which students receive degrees from both Jamk and the partner institution. The programmes are co-created with the partner institution to best fit the needs of the students, including a curriculum comparison as well as joint planning and implementation of the programme using blended learning methods.

Consulting services for the modernisation of education systems in the fields of Health Care and Rehabilitation

We provide consulting in areas such as nursing or rehabilitation education curricula, nurse educators’ qualifications, advanced nursing pedagogy and learning environments, digital rehabilitation, as well as functioning of primary healthcare system and roles of nurses.

Some examples of our work

What can we do for you? You might get a better idea through our customer stories.

Customer story

A pioneer of bicultural nursing colleges in the higher education sector

Jamk and Beihua University have been strategic partners in the field of health care since 2012. In 2013 the cooperation reached a new stage as the Joint Bachelor’s degree programme in Nursing was approved by the Ministry of Education of China.

Customer story

Strategic partner of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan in providing consultation for the Nursing Education Reform

Jamk has had a major impact in developing nursing and nursing education in Kazakhstan as a strategic partner of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Since 2012, Jamk has implemented multiple large-scale projects in Kazakhstan.

Contact information

Satu Hypén

Liiketoimintapäällikkö, Business Service Manager
Konsernin hallinto, Administration
Korkeakoulupalvelut, University Services
+358405799118

School of Health and Social Studies

Our cooperation in the national and international networks relays our expertise far and wide. At the same time, it creates new information and competence for the operators in our region.

Social Services and Health Care

In the field of Social Services and Health Care we offer seven bachelor's and six master's degree programmes. The degree programme in nursing is taught in both Finnish and English. We have two Master´s degree programmes in English.

ProInCa - Promoting the Innovation Capacity of Higher Education in Nursing during Health Services´ Transition

Implementation time: 15.10.2017 - 31.1.2021

Unit: School of Health and Social Studies

Financing program: Erasmus+ Key Action 2