Pregnancy follow-up ward

Depending on your visit, an outpatient visit fee or a daily inpatient fee will be charged. More information about client fees.

You may receive visitors daily between 9 am and 9 pm. If needed, your spouse or a support person may stay at the ward overnight.

Training, teaching and guidance

As a student you have the opportunity to practice how to plan and carry out nursing together with your mentor. We provide care to women whose pregnancy is high-risk and to women whose pregnancy is low-risk, and to their families.

As a student you will experience how it is to support and guide pregnant women in various problematic situations.  And it takes special sensitivity on your part to encounter families in crises.

As your training proceeds, you will gradually be able to act independently of your mentor but with her/his support. 

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.

For the training period to be a fruitful experience for you, you should be aware of certain pregnancy-associated problems, like 

• toxemia 
• hepatosis
• threatening preterm delivery  
• twin pregnancy
• preterm rupture of the membranes
• induction of labor
• nursing of women who have recently delivered a baby

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

What will you learn?

You may learn the following during your time with us

• monitoring and treating various pregnancy problems
• taking and interpreting cardiotocograms
• vaginal and external examinations
• managing the stage of opening of the cervix
• multiprofessional collaboration
• nursing of patients in open care
• information by phone
• guiding labor induction patients

Staff responsible for student guidance

Midwives Jenni Rouhiainen and Janica Schulze. E-mail addresses have the form firstname.lastname@varha.fi

The ward harbors 18 patient beds. The patient rooms accommodate either one or two persons. There are 10 single patient rooms and 4 double patient rooms.

The single rooms can be modified into family rooms.