{"id":10147,"date":"2025-02-20T15:11:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T13:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weightlossclinic.eu\/team\/teija-toivari\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:25:14","slug":"teija-toivari","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weightlossclinic.eu\/en\/team\/teija-toivari\/","title":{"rendered":"Teija Toivari"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTeija Toivari is a Finnish nurse living in Estonia. She completed her nursing education in Finland and later earned a Master of Health Sciences in Nursing Management from the University of Tartu in Estonia.
To expand her expertise in nutrition, Teija qualified as a nutrition adviser in Estonia in 2020 and as a nutrition therapist in 2024.
Throughout her career, Teija has worked in a wide range of roles, including clinical nursing, service development, management and professional education. In 2017, she received a state decoration from the President of Estonia for her contribution to developing palliative care.
Teija has worked as a bariatric nurse since 2020. She has supported patients preparing for bariatric surgery and the associated lifestyle changes before surgery, during their hospital stay and throughout postoperative recovery.
In recent years, Teija has also worked as a locum nurse in Finland and maintains the medication-administration authorisations required for her nursing work there.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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2025 \u2013 present<\/td>\nHealth Clinic, bariatric nurse and nutrition therapist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024<\/td>\nBariatric Services AS, bariatric nurse and nutrition therapist<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2024 \u2013 present<\/td>\nLocum nurse at Sinisiipi, a care home for people with memory disorders (Kouvola, Finland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2021 \u2013 2024<\/td>\nBariatric Services AS, Director of Nursing and developer of holistic nursing care; bariatric nurse (also a clinical nurse in the surgical ward and recovery room)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020 \u2013 2021<\/td>\nBariatric Services AS, bariatric nurse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019 \u2013 2021<\/td>\nLocum nurse at Sinisiipi, a care home for people with memory disorders (Kouvola, Finland)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2018 \u2013 2020<\/td>\nFertilitas private hospital, nurse in the outpatient clinic, rehabilitation ward and surgical ward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2017<\/td>\nMarjoniemi Hospital (Kouvola, Finland), locum nurse in the palliative care and post-acute care wards<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011 \u2013 2012<\/td>\nUniversity of Tartu, research team member in the RTPC international dementia-care research project<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2010 \u2013 2018<\/td>\nAS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital, Director of Quality and Nursing and Ward Manager of the hospice ward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008 \u2013 2010<\/td>\nAS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital, Director of Nursing and educator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008 \u2013 2009<\/td>\nDiaconal worker at the Finnish Congregation of St Peter in Tallinn, Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2008 \u2013 2009<\/td>\nDEM dementia-care training and development project: contributed to curriculum development and worked as an educator at different care institutions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2007 \u2013 2008<\/td>\nMSH (Norway) project-based practical-nurse training programme: curriculum developer and educator in palliative care and the nursing process<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003 \u2013 2018<\/td>\nNurse educator through various projects and by invitation from training centres at Estonian hospitals. Subjects included palliative care, dementia care and teamwork<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2002 \u2013 2007<\/td>\nAS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital, nurse and Ward Manager in the palliative-care and home-nursing units<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1999 \u2013 2001<\/td>\nAS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital, nurse and training coordinator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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2024<\/td>\r\nTervisekool, Nutrition Therapist training<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2020<\/td>\r\nRahvatervise Akadeemia, Nutrition Adviser training<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2012<\/td>\r\nUniversity of Tartu, Master\u2019s degree in Health Sciences (Nursing Management)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1997<\/td>\r\nLahti University of Applied Sciences, Deaconess-Nurse qualification<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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In addition to the training listed below, I have helped organise and participated in two to four continuing-education courses related to palliative or long-term care each year. From 2021 to 2024, I also worked as an internal educator at Bariatric Services, covering subjects such as nutrition, teamwork, conflict resolution, ethical issues, holistic care and the application of ERAS principles.<\/p>\n

June 2024 \u2013 Baltic and Nordic Bariatric Surgery Conference (participant)<\/p>\n

April 2024 \u2013 Annual Meeting of the Estonian Bariatric Surgery Society (speaker)<\/p>\n

August 2023 \u2013 IFSO World Congress of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery (participant)<\/p>\n

April 2023 \u2013 Annual Meeting of the Estonian Bariatric Surgery Society (participant)<\/p>\n

June 2022 \u2013 Baltic and Nordic Bariatric Surgery Conference (participant)<\/p>\n

2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 \u2013 Estonian Nutrition and Exercise Conference (participant)<\/p>\n

April 2022 \u2013 Joint conference of the Estonian Bariatric Surgery Society and nutrition therapists (speaker)<\/p>\n

2017 and 2024 \u2013 Medication-administration authorisation training and examination in Finland<\/p>\n

2016 and 2017 \u2013 Taina Semi development training: Creating a Person-Centred Culture of Care (participant)<\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 Long-Term Care Research Conference, Barcelona (participant)<\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 MT\u00dc Pallium training day: Teamwork (speaker)<\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 SA EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital, Living with Dementia conference (speaker)<\/p>\n

2014 \u2013 MT\u00dc Pallium Palliative Care Conference (speaker)<\/p>\n

2011 \u2013 EGGA training day: Living with Memory Disorders (speaker)<\/p>\n

2011 \u2013 IAGG VII European Congress (participant)<\/p>\n

2011 \u2013 MT\u00dc Pallium training day: A Dignified Death (speaker)<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 Third Palliative Care Conference at AS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital (speaker)<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 MSH Norway continuing education for adult educators (participant)<\/p>\n

2008 \u2013 Second Palliative Care Conference at AS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital (participant)<\/p>\n

2008 \u2013 IVA Integrative Validation: Communication with People Living with Dementia, training by Nicole Richard (participant)<\/p>\n

2006 \u2013 First Palliative Care Conference at AS EELK Tallinn Diaconal Hospital (speaker)<\/p>\n

2003 \u2013 MSH Norway, basic training in hygiene and palliative care (participant)<\/p>\n

2003 \u2013 Tervisekool, continuing education in home nursing (participant)<\/p>\n

2002 \u2013 E-katedraal occupational safety course, with refresher training in 2008 and 2014 (participant)<\/p>\n

2001 \u2013 Tervisekool, Organisation of Nursing Care (participant)<\/p>\n

Professional memberships<\/strong><\/p>\n

2003\u20132009 \u2013 Palliative Care Association, Finland<\/p>\n

2006\u20132010 \u2013 EGGA, Estonian Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics, Board Member<\/p>\n

2011\u20132017 \u2013 MT\u00dc Pallium, Estonian Palliative Care Association, Board Member<\/p>\n

Honours and awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 Certificate of recognition from the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church for long-standing service at a church-owned institution<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 Medal from the Family Caregivers Association for contributions to developing dementia care, jointly awarded with Jelena Leiburin and Hanna-Stina Heinmets<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 Order of the Estonian Red Cross, Fourth Class, awarded by the President of the Republic of Estonia for contributions to developing palliative care in Estonia<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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