2 689,23€/ month
START SALARY
0 years of service

Salary quoted gross, i.e. BEFORE taxes and social contributions as a starting salary with no previous years of acceptable service, in accordance with the collective agreement of Municipality Sector workers for Joint Authorities of Health and Wellbeing sector (HYVTES), pay grade TVA1. This salary is paid as a minimum, without shift work, after you have received your Finnish license to practice your profession as a nurse.

Shift work (bank holidays and inconvenient hours) will be paid in accordance to the amount of such hours worked, increasing the monthly salary with approximately 20%, bringing the salary  
up to 3 227,08€/ month. 

2 769,91€/ month
SALARY
5 years of service

Salary quoted gross, i.e. BEFORE taxes and social contributions as a starting salary with 5 years of acceptable service, in accordance with the collective agreement of Municipality Sector workers for Joint Authorities of Health and Wellbeing sector (HYVTES), pay grade TVA1. This salary is paid as a minimum, without shift work, after you have received your Finnish license to practice your profession as a nurse.

Shift work (bank holidays and inconvenient hours) will be paid in accordance to the amount of such hours worked, increasing the monthly salary with approximately 20%, bringing the salary  
up to 3 323,89€/ month. 

2 904,37€/ month
SALARY
10 years of service

Salary quoted gross, i.e. BEFORE taxes and social contributions as a starting salary with 10 years of acceptable service, in accordance with the collective agreement of Municipality Sector workers for Joint Authorities of Health and Wellbeing sector (HYVTES), pay grade TVA1. This salary is paid as a minimum, without shift work, after you have received your Finnish license to practice your profession as a nurse.

Shift work (bank holidays and inconvenient hours) will be paid in accordance to the amount of such hours worked, increasing the monthly salary with approximately 20%, bringing the salary  
up to 3 485,24€/ month. 

Salpausselän kuntoutussairaala Jalmari (Lahti)

Geriatric & Palliative care

Ward J12, a palliative care unit; ward J20, an assessment and rehabilitation unit of memory disorders; wards J21 & J22, the acute general medicine and geriatrics units, ward J31, a wound and infection unit as well as ward J32 general medicine and geriatrics unit are looking for nurses that are:

Interested in geriatric patient (often very complex patients, having several diseases, needing specialized geriatric attention)

Interested in palliative care

Interested in infections / wounds

Interested in memory disorders

Interested in fractures

Interested in neurological patients / stroke

Patients come from various units of primary and specialized health care, service housing units, and home. The assessment of patients' need for care is made in collaboration with multiple professionals. This work is usually shiftwork and it might require some extent of physical work as there might be patients who need help to mobilize and their everyday tasks during this acute face of their illness.

Wards 11K and 11B
(Heinola)

Geriatric, Neurological, Orthopedic, Palliative & General Medicinal care

The ward 11K treats primarily acute geriatric and general medicine patients, as well as patients requiring neurological and orthopedic rehabilitation. The ward 11B treats primarily acute geriatric and general medicine patients, palliative care (B-level) patients, and patients coming for emptying.

Patients come to the units primarily from the different specialized care departments of the Päijät-Häme Central Hospital, the emergency department. The unit also acts as a support unit for B-level palliative care patients. Patients are also directed to the units for red blood cell transfusions. In addition, the units treat patients requiring inpatient follow-up for bowel emptying. Bowel emptying patients are directed from primary care.

The work on a general medicine/geriatrics ward is monitoring the patients progress and their vital functions, taking care of medication, rehabilitation and educating patients and family members about the disease/condition. This work is usually shiftwork and it might require some extent of physical work as there might be patients who need help to mobilize and their everyday tasks during this acute face of their illness

LOCATION: HEINOLA

Orimattila wards

(Orimattila)

Patients withfractures & memory disorders as well as palliative care

Patients come to the wards primarily from the different specialized care departments of the Päijät-Häme Central Hospital and the emergency department. Patients often arrive due to a decline in general condition, infections, and falls. The most common diagnoses of patients are various inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and respiratory diseases.

The unit also acts as a support unit for basic level (A-level) palliative care patients. The unit also treats outpatient infusions and red blood cell transfusions. In addition, the unit treats patients requiring bowel emptying who are going for a colonoscopy in specialized care and bowel emptying is not possible at home. The average length of a treatment is 17 days.

In the Orimattila wards you can specialize in the following: 1) Palliative care / care for palliative patients; 2) Care for patients with fractures; and  3) Care for patients with memory disorders.

The work on a general medicine/geriatrics ward is monitoring the patients progress and their vital functions, taking care of medication, rehabilitation and educating patients and family members about the disease/condition. This work is usually shiftwork and it might require some extent of physical work as there might be patients who need help to mobilize and their everyday tasks during this acute face of their illness

LOCATION: ORIMATTILA