Health Studies at Vestfold University College

Skills for the future

Our nursing training program is designed to give you the skills and knowledge you need to be able to meet the health care needs of the twenty-first century. As a student you will work closely together with committed teachers and highly skilled placement advisers who will help ensure that you develop the right professional and personal skills needed for working as a nurse. We also have exchange agreements with institutions outside of Norway which give you the opportunity to complete part of your studies in Europe, Africa, China, New Zealand or Australia.

Nurses work with people from all age groups and care for ill people as well as working in preventive health care and health promotion. The job market has many exciting opportunities to offer trained nurses – in hospitals, municipal health services, preventive health care, private health services, occupational health services, offshore and aid work.

Become a part of future health care services and choose a course in health studies at Vestfold University College:

• 3-year Training Program in Nursing, bachelor's
• Occupational health services – multidisciplinary course of further training
• ”Inclusive work life” – organisation and management: Health promotion in the workplace
• Courses for foreign nurses to gain Norwegian authorization as nurses
• Refreshment courses for registered nurses
• Master's in health promotion
• Master in mental health care
• Course of further training in law and casework for health and social services personell
• Course of further training in basic acupuncture for midwives
• Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Studies - the Norwegian Planning and Building Act
• Multidisciplinary Postgraduate Studies in Aging and Care of the Elderly
• Postgraduate Studies in Intensive Care Nursing
• Postgraduate Studies in Health Pedagogy
• Postgraduate Studies in Anaesthesia Nursing
• Postgraduate Studies in Cancer Care