Labor ward

Opening hours and contact information

Visiting address

Tyks Lighthouse Hospital

Savitehtaankatu 5

Turku

B elevators, 3rd floor, to the left

Postal address

PO Box 52

20521 Turku

Information in emergency matters

02 313 1000

Office hours

Open 24/7.

All babies in Southwest Finland are delivered at our department.

We perform also elective cesarean sections, labor inductions and late-pregnancy follow-ups. Our post-delivery recovery room is designed for the entire family: The newborn can be in skin contact with the mother and the entire family can enjoy meeting the newcomer immediately after the cesarean section.

About 4,000 children are born in our facilities every year. We focus on the specific needs of the family and work in family-centered manner. Our way of working follows the WHO principles of BFHI (baby-friendly hospital initiative). At the Labor ward the mother and child are well taken care of by midwives. An obstetrician is immediately available if needed, as is an anesthetist and a pediatrician.

Pregnancy on-call services are available 24/7.

Training, teaching and guidance

Our ward in located in the university hospital. We have high-risk and low-risk deliveries. As a student and member of a multiprofessional team you have the opportunity to participate in many deliveries and encounter numerous different situations.

Before your training period

We work in three shifts and we expect you, for a start, to plan your shifts in accordance with the shifts of your mentor.

It is our wish that you have passed your theoretical studies related to labor nursing before your start your training period with us.

Please read the information on the following web page before your training: The hospital as a learning surroundings.

What will you learn?

nursing of normal delivery
nursing of abnormal deliveries, e.g., cesarean section, vacuum extraction, breech birth, correction of tears and manual removal of the placenta
neonatal care
nursing of mothers discharged soon after delivery and who are not hospitalized

Student contacts

Anna Tunnela, Saara Malinen and Kaisa Kansa (E-mail addresses have the form firstname.lastname@varha.fi)

All delivery rooms are for one person. The newborn is cared for in the same room. All delivery rooms have a shower and toilet. There are three tubs in the department. The tubs are located between the delivery rooms so that a tub can be accessed from six of the delivery rooms.

Cesarean sections are performed in an operating room located in the Labor ward. The spouse or support person may participate in a cesarean delivery.

We share a break room with the pregnancy monitoring ward where the spouse and support person may rest and enjoy some food and drink.

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Tyks Lighthouse hospital

In the Lighthouse hospital we have paediatric and adolescent medicine, gynaecology and obstetrics, ear, nose and throat diseases and oral and maxillofacial diseases. You can also find some of the medical imaging funcionts in the Lighthouse hospital.

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