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Welfare Technology
The competition tasks of this skill category are based on the Vocational Qualifications in Social and Health Care as well as Information and Communication Technology. The professional titles of the basic degrees are for example practical nurse, basic-level paramedic and well-being technology installers.
The tasks within health and well-being technology are customer-oriented and require multiprofessional cooperation in social welfare and health care operating environments and companies in the well-being technology sector.
Semifinal
The page will be published later.
Final
The page will be launched in March 2025.
Results
The results will be published after the final.
Description of the skill
Well-being technology is a multiprofessional field in which the competing pair works to promote clients’ functional capacity. The pair makes versatile use of health and well-being technology solutions to support clients’ well-being, functional capacity, coping and safety at all stages of their life cycle.
Well-being technology requires multiprofessional cooperation and customer service skills.
The competition is a paired skill category with no age limit.
Skill requirements
The pair must have competence in the following modules to the extent of excellent competence:
Vocational Qualification in Social and Health Care
- Encountering and guiding the customer
- Well-being and functional capacity promotion
- Pharmacotherapy in the practical nurse’s area of responsibility
- Health and well-being technology in promoting functional capacity
Vocational Qualification in Information and Communication Technology
- Basic ICT tasks
- Using well-being technology to support clients’ coping with everyday life
Skill competition managers
Minna Ikiviita
Jenni Suonpää
Skill steering group
- Minna Ikiviita, Turku Vocational Institute
- Jenni Suonpää, Turku Vocational Institute
- Päivi Sinisalo, Keuda
- Jaana Väntsi, Keuda
- Liisa Korhonen, Savo Vocational College
- Sari Ojajärvi, SuPer
- Tiina Cederberg, TEHY
- Laura Erkkonen, JHL
- Dinah Arifulla, Finnish National Agency for Education
- Sonja Fraile, Yrkesinstitutet Practicum
- Juho Vuopala, SASKY koulutuskuntayhtymä
- Anne-Mari Seppälä, Turku University of Applied Sciences
- Riika Saurio, LUT University
- Maria Kumpuoja, Turku Vocational Institute
- Veli Nevalainen, Suvanto Care
- Tomi Ahokas, Finnish National Agency for Education
