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By Soteekin päiväkirjat (Soteekki diaries) -blog you can have a look into the everyday life of Satakunta University of Applied Sciences' Service Center Soteekki. What  physiotherapy, nursing and social work students want to tell about their journey in  Soteekki? And what is the role of business students in a social and health service center? The blog highlights the special features of Soteekki from students perspective.

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Fall 2023 first Soteekki group

13.9.2023

This post is written by three social work students, and we want to tell what is involved in a multi-professional entrepreneurship internship at Soteekki. In total, 133 hours are allocated to the entrepreneurial internship in the social work sector, including initial information, final feedback, orientation and writing the internship report. At Soteekki, we work in …

World Parkinson Day – 11th April 

20.4.2023

Written by Italian Physiotherapy student Sara Giovanardi April 11th is the birthday of Dr. James Parkinson, the first physician to recognise Parkinson’s as a medical condition.  In 2005 the tulip was adopted as the official symbol of Parkinson’s during the 9th World Parkinson’s disease day conference. However, the flower had been informally associated with the …

World Water Day – 22nd March

22.3.2023

The world water day has been declared in 1992, over 30 years ago, to draw attention to economic and social effects of clean waters availability to populations and its impacts on health, well-being, equality and economy. Nevertheless a third of the global population remains to live without proper drinking water and half of the population …

Down Syndrome Day – 21st March

21.3.2023

“With us not for us” About Down syndrome Down syndrome or Trysomy 21 is a condition in which a person has an extra 21st chromosome in each body cell. A very small percentage of people with Down syndrome have an extra copy of chromosome 21 in only some of the body’s cells and this particular …

Human Rights Day – 10th December – Fundamental and Human Rights

9.12.2022

Written by nursing student Hanna Rauvola International Human Rights Day is celebrated tomorrow 10.12.2022. After the 2nd world war the importance of human rights and world peace emerged and these two things still work as the main goals of the organization. Universal Declaration of Human Rights was accepted in the United Nations General Assembly on 10th of …

Mental Health Week 20th – 27th November 2022 – Mental health of university students

5.12.2022

Written by nursing student Hanna Rauvola On the week 47 (20.11.-27.11.2022) was the celebration of nationwide mental health week. Mental health week has become a national tradition, which has timed on the week 47 since 1974. The week starts yearly with the candle event on Sunday of the week 46. At this event the candles …

In the case of a Transient Ischemic Attack every minute counts 

7.11.2022

Written by nursingstudents Roosa Erkkilä, Minttu Marila & Jutta Hautamäki On Worlds TIA Day, October 29th, we need to be paying more attention to prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of cerebrovascular disorders. Worlds Stroke Organization, WSO, and Aivoliito ry want to affect that fewer and fewer people would suffer from cerebrovascular disease and for all of …

A bone-week brings with it important info about Osteoporosis

25.10.2022

Written by nursingstudents Roosa Erkkilä, Minttu Marila & Jutta Hautamäki On last week 17.10-23.10.2022 was the celebration of bone week and it´s every year in October. On this year, the theme of the bone week is” No Sooner Said Than Done – your choices matter”. The meaning of that week is to advance recognizing of …

International Week of Happiness at Work 19th – 25th September 2022

22.9.2022

This week we celebrate the international Week of Happiness at Work. It was started in 2015 by two Dutch women, Fennande van der Meulen and Maartje Wolff. The purpose of the week is to include happiness in the work environment and in this way improve the well-being of employees. We found out which things in …