Sammanfattning
Sauna and socialising can ideally be tied in with a health check, and enable nursing skills to be
acquired in an unconventional setting. This is the setup created by Metropol’s Health Clinic at the
Sjællandsgade baths in the Nørrebro district of Copenhagen. Here the student nurses and a nurse
tutor joined by other professions offer citizens a health check as an extra curricular option for
students.
The article is written on the basis of 12 months’ teaching at a traditional Copenhagen bath house.
The experiential knowledge is supplemented by statements from the student nurses’ evaluations of
the learning activity.
The students experience a new interaction between theory and practice in a practice-led setting.
Learning in a setting characterised by user diversity enables the students to learn to juggle different
communicative tools and wide-ranging skills.
As a tutor, it is stimulating to teach in a high-energy setting, and tutor-student relations are altered.
The students undergo no assessment; they are there on a voluntary basis, as are the users.