Maternity outpatient care

Opening hours and contact information

Visiting address

Tyks Lighthouse Hospital

Savitehtaankatu 5

Turku

B elevators, 6th floor, to the left

Postal address

PO Box 52

20521 Turku

Appointment booking for maternity outpatient services

02 313 1000

Mo–Fr 8:00–12:00

Fax

02 313 1344

We treat women who are planning pregnancy, are currently pregnant and women who have already given birth.

You will need a referral from a public health nurse or a physician. The need and urgency for treatment will be decided on the basis of the referral. You will be informed about your appointment by letter or by telephone.

Antenatal screening appointments are primarily booked online. Book an appointment a couple of days after your nurse has sent your referral to the hospital (the referral must be processed).

You can find the online booking instructions for the induction clinic from prenatal care unit’s page.

Your spouse and support person are welcome to attend the appointments. Unfortunately, children cannot go in the consultation rooms.

In our department, your will be an active participant in our multidisciplinary work team, where everyone in the staff carries responsibility for your guidance.

You will learn much about planning and carrying out treatment and about patient guidance under the guidance of your mentor. Toward the end of your training period and depending on the duration of your training period, you will be able to plan your day-to-day workplace based on your own interests.

With the patient consent, you may be present when the patient is examined and undergoes procedures. You must take patient privacy and confidentiality into account during every patient encounter.

One of our midwives will be named your mentor, and together with her or him we will follow up your progress during the training period.

Before your training period

Please refresh your knowledge of

Normal pregnancy
Fetal screenings
Risk pregnancies, e.g., gestational diabetes, chronic illnesses and pregnancy, and multiple pregnancy
Pregnancy problems, e.g., preeclampsia, obstetric cholestasis, placenta previa, blood group immunizations and threatening preterm labour
The hospital as a learning environment

What you will learn

Pregnancy follow-up and treating problems during pregnancy
Working in a busy outpatient care unit and how to interact with patients in a fast-paced environment
Working as a part of a multidisciplinary team
Working in physician-nurse pairs
Manual skills related to ultrasound examinations (sonography), also learning to understand the information contained in ultrasound views
Principles of fetal screening, of placental biopsies and of amniotic fluid sampling
Examinations and treatment of patients with different cultural backgrounds.

Student contacts

Elina Lummejoki, Viivi Huunonen and Kari-Matti Kaarniharju. E-mail addresses have the form firstname.lastname@varha.fi

Hospitals

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 functions in the Lighthouse hospital.

Opening hours and contact information

Visiting address

Postal address

Appointment booking for maternity outpatient services

Fax

Client fees

For students

Arrival

Hospitals

Tyks Lighthouse hospital