About Nordland Hospital
We are situated just north of the Arctic Circle in three locations, both rural and urban. We have highly skilled employees and we promote equal opportunities for men and women.
We like to think of ourselves as being just the right size. Our hospital is large enough to provide varied and interesting clinical experience, yet small enough for us to get to know each other. Nordland Hospital is the second largest in the North of Norway, a modern teaching hospital with 4,000 highly qualified staff and several hundred students, serving a population of 136,000.
Our locations
The city of Bodø, the capital of Nordland County, is the location of the main General and Psychiatric hospitals, and there are two local hospitals in the Lofoten and Vesterålen districts.
Patient care and research
We aim to meet and treat our patients in both general medicine and mental health, in a friendly atmosphere with staff from Norway and 40 other nations. Encouraging research is a major priority for us, and we have several ph.d.-candidates active at any one time. We participate in research projects at both national and international levels, and our ranking for publications is relatively high.
The hospital has its own library, which provides online access to a large number of international journals, and well-qualified library staff ably assist us.
Learning resources and quality
Patient safety and quality of service have been target areas for us for some time, and this has recently been acknowledged through a national award.