Keynote Speakers – FNAM2020

Keynote Lecture

Tuesday 12.5.2020 at 11.00 -11.30

Topic: The current situation of nursing in Finland and the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

Exhibitor:

Nina Hahtela, President of the Finnish Nurses Association, RN, PhD

Nurses and midwives play a vital role in providing health services. They are often, the first and only point of care in their communities. The world needs 9 million more nurses and midwives if it is to achieve universal health coverage by 2030. That’s why WHO has designated 2020 the international year of the nurse and the midwife.

The year 2020 is significant for nurses and nursing in many ways. There are many national and international events during the year where the work of nurses and midwives is celebrated, but more importantly their work is valued. In this session you will hear about the current situation of nursing in Finland and what will happen in the year of the nurse and the midwife.

Keynote Lecture

Tuesday 12.5.2020 at 11.30 - 12.00

Topic:

Midwife´s changing roles in Finland – from sauna to repproductive health and rigets spesisialist

Exhibitors:

Vice President Anna-Kaisa Kokkonen, The Federation of Finnish Midwifery 

Info:

Anna-Kaisa Kokkonen is a registered midwife & nurse and new vice president of the Federation of Finnish Midwives. She has been working as a midwife for thirteen years in different areas of midwifery and is currently working as a clinical teacher of nursing and midwifery in Kuopio university hospital.

Midwives in Finland have a long educational history and the Federation turned 100 years old year 2019. The role of the midwife in Finland is very independent and the  working area is wide, not only in births but also in sexual and reproductive health and gynecology. Biggest challenges are now centralization and really low birth rate.

Keynote Lecture

Wednesday 13.5.2020 at 11.00 - 11.30

Topic:

Keynote lecture (Skype): Research on Simulation Pedagogy – Challenges and Possibilities

Exhibitors:

Marianne Teräs, RN, Public Health Nurse, M in Health Sc., PhD

Associate Professor in Education specialized in Health Care Education

Department of Education, Stockholm University

Info:

This presentation explores simulations from the perspective of education sciences. Especially theories of learning will be focused on and how they can benefit our understanding of nursing simulations. We can approach simulations from a large perspective as an encompassing approach to learning a nursing profession or from a narrow perspective as situated learning of a scenario. Conceptualizations of learning in nursing simulations, as well as pedagogical models, are many. Challenges are, for example, that teaching need to be developed based on education theories, and that multiple concepts used in studies need to be defined and explained. Possibilities are a versatile picture of practices in nursing simulations, a solid background to develop simulation pedagogy and a strong theory-practice dialogue in nursing simulation pedagogy.