Kela, Oma Kanta, Keva
Kela is the social insurance institute in Finland. Finnish citizens and foreigners who have Finnish citizenship can get help in social security matters and insurance from Kela. Kela support citizens in many different ways. Students get student salary help during studies and they can apply student loans and Kela will guarantee them. Kela helps students with their rents and support low-income citizens with the rent of their apartments and also support them with electricity and water bills. I myself has received Kela’s student allowance and maternity allowance when I was pregnant and child allowance. All children in Finland receive monthly child allowance.
Omakanta is an online service where you can see all your health records and you can log in with your bank credential online. Youi can see all your laboratory results, doctor texts, and care plan.
Reimbursement for m medicine expenses in Kela: you have to pay first 50 euros of covered medicines yourself; reimbursement is available after meeting the initial deductible, maximum annual limitation of medicine expenses is 626.94 euros. After you reach the maximum, you are reimbursed by Kela through the rest of the year.
Health care and insurance system in Iran
I am originally Iranian so i will give a breif information on my country insurance system. Healthcare in Iran is consisting of three branches. Government local health care, private sector and non-government healthcare (NGO), The nongovernmental organization is working on humanitarian or social matters. Ministry of health and medical educations owns in Iran the medical insurance and medical education. More than 90 percent of people who live in Iran are covered by Insurance. But we have a lot of illegal immigrants who are living in Iran without documents and they are not covered by insurance. There is another insurance named Imam Khomeini which covers poor and homeless people. Health insurance covers 70 percent of the cost of medications and 90 percent of hospital expenses and doctor visits.
Keva
Keva is the pension provider in Finland.Its purpose is to improve wellbeing at work and enhance work ability of the employees. From Keva you can calculate when you start getting pension.
Digital shops
I searched couple of online shops such as Amazon, Wish, Teemu. They are much lower prices than buying things from the shops. I have shopped online couple of times, I personally don’t trust them much. Last year I got scammed after I ordered some winter jackets online. After few days I got my salary and all was gone! I tried to get my money back with police help and the bank but it was not possible unfortunately. The money was transferred to a bank account in Israel and police said because it is out of European area it is almost impossible to return it! After that bad experience I don’t trust them. Now if I buy anything online, I only buy if there is possibility to pay it by Klarna. I don’t like chines stuff quality also and most online shops are chines made products. I ordered once few Pet shop dolls for my daughter from Amazon, the post-delivery cost a lot and it took almost a month to arrive so that was the last time I bought anything from Amazon. I lived 6 months in America, Amazon worked very well there, that time I shopped a lot of thing from Amazon sometimes the delivery time was same day or in a day or two. But in Europe it takes too long to get here.
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My digitalized competence test result:
https://digital-competence.eu/dc/en/report/?uri=18b2d15d1a39d9ee2f19f78265aebcba
Digital competence tool
Digital competence tool is an important tool with many definitions. It is not only about our access to technology but it is about how we are able to use the technology in pour every day life and how to get all the advantages and benefits of it in life.
My digital competence areas:
Information: Ability to identify, locate, store, organize and analysis the i9nformation and evaluate their relevance and purpose of the information for me in the wheel test was 82%. Which means to some extend I am able to identify and locate and analysis data. I have experience in doing some research for examp0le on Patellofemoral pain in my previous master education so I did a lot of data collection and learned a lot then. But there is still a lot of for me to learn.
Communication: The ability to communicate, collaborate, interact with and participate virtual teams and networks as well as make use of appropriate media, tone and behavior in the digital competence test what I did was 86%. I use some digital media such as Teams, Facebook, for my personal goals and communication and also for my job. I know how to contact people and interact with them. For example, discuss issues about health plan of a patient with doctor or other health care units. Or as another exam example how to order medicines for the unit.
Production: The ability to create, configure, and edit digital content, solve digital problems and explore new ways to take advantage of technology.
According to the digital competence test result of my productivity was 73%. There are a massive number of new things for me to learn in digital world. In my own working field, there are already many new programs that we use to collect data for patients and analysis them and so on which every unit or almost every state has a different program which I need to learn. For example, when I was working in Jyväskylä we were using Effica and now that I am living in Imatra we use, Hilka and life care and in elderly homes mostly we use Doma care. I think there is no end to new technology and every day coming new ones.
Safety: The ability to use digital technology safely and sustainably in relation to data, identify and work injuries and to pay attention to legal consequences rights and duties according to the competence test I got 81%. Actually, safety is very important we need to know what we put online in media and digital world stays and is stored somewhere for ever so we must be very careful about how we use the technology. We as nurses need to learn a lot about patients’ privacy rules we must be very careful how to handle their data and to whom and what data we are allowed to hand to other parties in out care team so we need to now how to protect our data online and other’s data online.