Bachelor of Health Care, Paramedic Nurse

The programme aims to prepare healthcare professionals who:

• Provide expert emergency and acute care in a range of environments.
• Possess strong theoretical knowledge, clinical skills, and independent decision-making ability.
• Act effectively under pressure in multidisciplinary teams.
• Communicate empathetically with patients and colleagues.
• Graduate with dual qualifications, ensuring access to wide career opportunities in both paramedic and registered nursing roles.

The degree integrates theory, practice, and language learning across the studies:

• Theoretical Studies: Emergency care, nursing theory, clinical decision-making, and multidisciplinary innovation projects.
• Practical Learning: Simulation-based training in modern facilities, including a simulation hospital and ambulance at Metropolia’s Myllypuro campus.
• Clinical Practice: About one-third of the programme, carried out in authentic healthcare settings such as ambulances, emergency rooms, and hospital units.
• Language and Electives: Finnish language studies are built into the curriculum for non-Finnish speakers, while Finnish-speaking students may choose other electives.
• Bachelor’s Thesis: A research or development project linked to real healthcare practice.

Teaching methods include classroom sessions, online learning, group work, and self-directed study, ensuring a balance of flexibility and hands-on training.

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENTS

• English: Applicants must demonstrate at least B2 level proficiency, as studies begin in English.
• Finnish: No Finnish is required at entry. However, Finnish is integrated into studies from the start, and by graduation students must demonstrate sufficient oral and written Finnish/Swedish to work as licensed health care professionals in Finland.

Read more on Valvira site.

Graduates of the programme qualify as both paramedic nurses and registered nurses. In Finland, professional practice also requires applying for the right to practice from Valvira, the National Supervisory Authority for Welfare and Health, in accordance with the Act on Health Care Professionals (559/1994).

Career opportunities include:

• Emergency Care: Ambulance services, emergency rooms, high-dependency units, and intensive care units.
• General Nursing: Primary healthcare, home care, hospital wards, and private sector health and welfare services.
• Other Roles: Acute care organisations, project or educational positions, or independent entrepreneurship.

The dual qualification ensures excellent opportunities both in Finland and internationally, with eligibility to continue studies at the master’s level in Finland or abroad.

The admission requirements for the program can found on the university page.

Further information about the tuition fee and available scholarships for the program can found on the university page.