Common challenges faced by foreign nursing students in Finland
Chuba, Germaine Youkam (2020)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202001161307
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-202001161307
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The purpose of this thesis was to explore the challenges faced by foreign nursing students in Finland. The aim was to provide some possible solutions that can help foreign nursing students to cope with the common challenges faced during their nursing studies in Finland. In addition, this would serve as a guide for foreign nursing students during their study and stay in Finland in the nearest future.
A literature review was used by the author to conduct this research. Scientific articles were taken from Science Direct (Elsevier), EBSCOhost, SAGE Premier. Researches from Finnish researchers were also included in the selected sources. Qualitative content analyzing with deductive method was imple-mented to analyze the research findings.
The study revealed that, foreign nursing students in Finland are faced with many common challenges during their studies. These challenges are language and communication, socio-cultural, psychological, clinical competence assessment and time management. Language and communication were identified as the major problem for the challenges faced by foreign nursing students in Finland. The study further indicated some possible solutions to help foreign nursing students to be able to cope with the challenges faced to pursue a nursing career in Finland. These include adaptation to the environment, coping with loneliness. Adequate language competence was identified as a breakthrough for most of the challenges faced by foreign nursing students in Finland.
A literature review was used by the author to conduct this research. Scientific articles were taken from Science Direct (Elsevier), EBSCOhost, SAGE Premier. Researches from Finnish researchers were also included in the selected sources. Qualitative content analyzing with deductive method was imple-mented to analyze the research findings.
The study revealed that, foreign nursing students in Finland are faced with many common challenges during their studies. These challenges are language and communication, socio-cultural, psychological, clinical competence assessment and time management. Language and communication were identified as the major problem for the challenges faced by foreign nursing students in Finland. The study further indicated some possible solutions to help foreign nursing students to be able to cope with the challenges faced to pursue a nursing career in Finland. These include adaptation to the environment, coping with loneliness. Adequate language competence was identified as a breakthrough for most of the challenges faced by foreign nursing students in Finland.