LABlanssi - Etelä-Karjalan ensihoidon oppimisympäristö
LABlanssi – South Karelia’s prehospital care learning environment
The project is looking for an alternative to the traditional teaching strategy, where the theory base is built in class room and clinical nursing practice takes place in the field conditions. There is competence, methodological, pedagogic, and working life needs that affect in the background. The main objective of the project is to create the LABlanssi model, i.e. an entity that strengthens the paramedic students' competence and working life skills by reinforcing the co-operation of the educational institution and the work life representative. Equal learning opportunities are provided for students in a prehospital care learning environment and the transition into working life is supported, at the same time securing the availability and continuity of high-quality services. The sub-objectives are:
1. To develop the paramedic education combining working life and pedagogy.
2. To Improve the uniform quality of student guidance with a coherent student guidance model for paramedics.
3. To create a prehospital care learning environment that comprehensively covers the learning platform equipment, patient interface, and pedagogical and development competence, and to promote awareness of the developed, piloted and evaluated LABlanssi model at the national level, and to find national or international partners for further development.
4. To promote competence related to digital and technological solutions in emergency medical care and its training, and to enable the experimentation and implementation of new solutions.
The main measures of the project are:
1. Design and implementation of the prehospital care learning environment
2. Strengthening professional competence
3. Structured student guidance model in working life cooperation
4. Piloting and evaluation of the LABlanssi model
5. Communication and dissemination of the LABlanssi model
The LABlanssi model is being piloted in South Karelia in cooperation between the LAB and the South Karelia Wellbeing Service County. The result is the LABlanssi model which is described and available to be introduced in other counties and universities of applied science. The model is an entity that includes the learning environment produced in the project, the professional competence development model, the pedagogical course for the practical training instructor and the student guidance model. The content of paramedic internships is of uniform quality. Students graduate on time and are ready to enter the working life. They have the skills to use digital tools for first aid and remote consultation. The long-term effect of the project is that the LABlanssi improves the readiness of EMS and patient safety, reduces delays in reaching the emergency patient and distributes the load of EMS in the area. A uniform quality, egalitarian and working life-oriented training model promotes the graduating paramedics' commitment to working life. The piloted unit is also relevant in terms of the development of EMS in national level.
As a learning environment in the project, the LABlanssi unit, staffed by a teacher and a paramedic nurse, which focuses on teaching, will serve in the South Karelia welfare area in operational activities as part of the EMS. At LABlanssi, paramedic nurse students of the LAB University of Applied Sciences are offered the opportunity to practice under the guidance of their own teacher and paramedic nurse. The LABlanssi unit is a unique emergency care learning environment in Finland and internationally, where the latest information is transmitted between the emergency care field and the educational institution.
LABlanssi has started operational activities as part of EKHVA's primary care on April 3, 2023.
LABlanssi performs EMS tasks on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., excluding the university of applied sciences' free periods. In addition to performing EMS tasks, students at LABlanssi follow a systematic weekly p
The project is looking for an alternative to the traditional teaching strategy, where the theory base is built in class room and clinical nursing practice takes place in the field conditions. There is competence, methodological, pedagogic, and working life needs that affect in the background. The main objective of the project is to create the LABlanssi model, i.e. an entity that strengthens the paramedic students' competence and working life skills by reinforcing the co-operation of the educational institution and the work life representative. Equal learning opportunities are provided for students in a prehospital care learning environment and the transition into working life is supported, at the same time securing the availability and continuity of high-quality services. The sub-objectives are:
1. To develop the paramedic education combining working life and pedagogy.
2. To Improve the uniform quality of student guidance with a coherent student guidance model for paramedics.
3. To create a prehospital care learning environment that comprehensively covers the learning platform equipment, patient interface, and pedagogical and development competence, and to promote awareness of the developed, piloted and evaluated LABlanssi model at the national level, and to find national or international partners for further development.
4. To promote competence related to digital and technological solutions in emergency medical care and its training, and to enable the experimentation and implementation of new solutions.
The main measures of the project are:
1. Design and implementation of the prehospital care learning environment
2. Strengthening professional competence
3. Structured student guidance model in working life cooperation
4. Piloting and evaluation of the LABlanssi model
5. Communication and dissemination of the LABlanssi model
The LABlanssi model is being piloted in South Karelia in cooperation between the LAB and the South Karelia Wellbeing Service County. The result is the LABlanssi model which is described and available to be introduced in other counties and universities of applied science. The model is an entity that includes the learning environment produced in the project, the professional competence development model, the pedagogical course for the practical training instructor and the student guidance model. The content of paramedic internships is of uniform quality. Students graduate on time and are ready to enter the working life. They have the skills to use digital tools for first aid and remote consultation. The long-term effect of the project is that the LABlanssi improves the readiness of EMS and patient safety, reduces delays in reaching the emergency patient and distributes the load of EMS in the area. A uniform quality, egalitarian and working life-oriented training model promotes the graduating paramedics' commitment to working life. The piloted unit is also relevant in terms of the development of EMS in national level.
As a learning environment in the project, the LABlanssi unit, staffed by a teacher and a paramedic nurse, which focuses on teaching, will serve in the South Karelia welfare area in operational activities as part of the EMS. At LABlanssi, paramedic nurse students of the LAB University of Applied Sciences are offered the opportunity to practice under the guidance of their own teacher and paramedic nurse. The LABlanssi unit is a unique emergency care learning environment in Finland and internationally, where the latest information is transmitted between the emergency care field and the educational institution.
LABlanssi has started operational activities as part of EKHVA's primary care on April 3, 2023.
LABlanssi performs EMS tasks on weekdays between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m., excluding the university of applied sciences' free periods. In addition to performing EMS tasks, students at LABlanssi follow a systematic weekly p
Project period
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Project state
Finished
Project area
National
Project funding
ESR 2021-2027
Kuva
LAB role
Lead partner
Unit
Health Care and Social Services
Project focus area
Human well-being
