CAREFUTURE project examines:
- why the social and health care sector suffers from severe labour shortages and high turnover among care workers
- how bottomup innovations originating from citizens and employees, as well as organizational, AIbased and policydriven topdown innovations, could help alleviate the care work crisis in Finland.
The Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare's (THL) work package (WP4) Sustainable Career Paths in Care Work – A Cohort Study conducts a longitudinal followup study tracking nursing students from the final phase of their studies into working life. This longitudinal study provides new and essential knowledge about a critical career phase in which nurses enter increasingly demanding, digitalizing, and multicultural care work.
Goals
The aim is to identify factors that either facilitate or hinder successful transition and integration into different social and health care environments. The findings will be used to develop innovative solutions and recommendations to support this transition and help secure a sufficient care workforce for the future.
Implementation
The study follows a national cohort of practical nurse and registered nurse students as they transition from education to working life.
Survey and interview data will be collected at three points in time over a period of six years:
- During the final academic year or semester before graduation (autumn 2026)
- Approximately one year after entering working life (autumn 2028)
- 2–3 years after graduation (spring/autumn 2030)
Funding
Strategic Research Council (SRC) established within the Research Council of Finland.
Partners
Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (TTL, consortium lead), Tampere University of Applied Sciences (TAMK), Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT), THL, University of Jyväskylä (JYU)
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