Working as a nurse in operating rooms or intensive care
In our operating rooms or in intensive care, you will be able to develop your professional skills every day. We offer interesting work tasks where you can also challenge your expertise.
We support the development of your skills by providing further training. Good induction is a matter of honor for us.
We support the coordination of work life and other aspects of life, and we take into account your life situation in the work arrangements. In shift work, you have the opportunity to influence your shift roster.
Your work in operating rooms and in intensive care
In the operating room, in perioperative nursing, you will work to ensure the physical, mental and social well-being and safety of the surgical patient. You will support the patient’s coping by meeting the care needs before, during, and immediately after surgery.
In intensive care, you help a critically ill patient cope with their illness and the associated treatment. You promote the patient’s healing or help the patient have a dignified end of life. You support the loved ones of the patient in intensive care and guide them in supporting the patient.
Where do you work?
In the Surgery and Anesthesia Units, you work at Meilahti Tower Hospital and Bridge Hospital, Park Hospital, and the Jorvi, Peijas, Lohja, Hyvinkää, or Porvoo hospitals.
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit, Meilahti Tower Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit, Meilahti Bridge Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit, Park Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit K, Jorvi Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit L, Jorvi Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit K, Peijas Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit L, Peijas Hospital
- Surgery and Anesthesia Unit, Lohja Hospital
- Into surgery from home (LEIKO Unit) and Surgery Unit, Hyvinkää Hospital
- Surgical Ward, Leiko and Day Surgery Unit, Porvoo Hospital
There are Surgery and Anesthesia units also in the New Children’s Hospital, Women’s Hospital, Eye and Ear Hospital, and Surgical Hospital.
In the intensive care units, you work at Meilahti Bridge Hospital or Tower Hospital, Jorvi Hospital, or in the intermediate care of Hyvinkää Hospital.
When you work in operating rooms, intensive care and pain management, you are part of a performance unit that depends on where your workplace is located.
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Video: As a nurse in HUS operating rooms
“We save human lives. That is the beauty of the work, the reason why I love it so much.” Nurses Jaana and Mira describe their work in the operating room as challenging, but all the more instructive. The job is all about teamwork. English subtitles available.
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