Digital Finnish Vocabulary of Basic Daily Activities : Educational Material for Nursing Students

Abstract

Recently, according to Helsinki times, there has been large influx of international students majorly from South Asian countries like Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India, coming to study in Finland. Some proportions of these students are studying health related courses like nursing, and physiotherapy. when they graduated, they will fill in the current job shortages in healthcare.

The purpose of this thesis is to create a digital Finnish vocabulary of basic daily activities that covers common day-to-day activities such as personal hygiene, mobility, toileting, dressing, eating, and transfers. The project objectives focus on two main areas. First, the content of the dictionary will improve and enlarge nursing students Finnish vocabulary, of common or basic vocabularies needed in activities of daily living, especially when they are in clinical placements such as nursing homes. Second, native Finnish nursing students and healthcare staffs can utilize this dictionary to connect their Finnish vocabulary with the English vocabulary needed in nursing field.

The waterfall project methodology was used in the implementation of this project. This method was chosen because we had a clear upfront requirement, such as potential project requirements, documents, deadlines, and guideline, fixed timeline, and budget.

The vocabulary created has six sections covering common day-to-day activities such as personal hygiene, mobility, shower, dressing, eating, and common phrases. These sections are distinguished by different colour codes, colours influence how readers perceive information and can either hinder or boost their learning process. The vocabulary contained few limited errors in translation.

The information contained in this thesis work strictly followed SAMK requirements from reliable and trustworthy sources. Ethical principles were adhered to following TENK. During the thesis project, the authors carefully ensured most of the information are from reliable databases such as CINAHL, Finna, Google Scholar and PubMed, even though non-reliable websites like study info, Helsinki times, google were also used.