Entry requirement

• the intermediate school leaving certificate or another qualification recognized as equivalents

or

• dthe lower secondary school leaving certificate or another recognized equivalent qualification,

provided:

a) proof of successfully completed vocational training of at least two years.

or

b) a state-recognized or state-examined professional qualification in a state-regulated nursing assistant or helper profession of at least one year duration, which corresponds to the minimum requirements for training for assistant and helper professions in nursing decided by the 2012 Conference of Labor and Social Affairs Ministers and the 2013 Conference of Health Ministers , is proven.

or

c) Proof of training in nursing assistance or geriatric care assistance, which has been successfully completed under state law and started by 1 January 2020 and lasted at least one year.

or

d) a license as a nursing assistant issued on the basis of the 1985 version of the Nursing Act can be proven

or

e) the successful completion of another ten-year general school education. Further requirements: Health and personal fitness to practice the profession, language level B1 (certificate)

Training process

The 3-year training to become a nursing specialist includes both theoretical and practical parts.

You learn the theoretical basics at school, which you can then implement and deepen in practice with your training provider for practical training.

Theory and practice always alternate.

During the practical phases, you will be accompanied, supervised and assessed by our teachers.

The knowledge learned is applied directly in the practice facility. You will learn to perceive, respect and care for people with all dimensions of their lives.

In practice, you experience care as a holistic process with guidance, advice and support.

The practice facility and the Kolping technical school for nursing work together intensively to enable optimal training. Among other things, there is a regular exchange between pupils, practical instructors and teachers.

The theoretical training comprises 2100 hours, the practical training 2500 hours.

Look after and care for

You look after and care for people in a care facility, in a hospital or at home.

This includes personal hygiene and food intake, but also support and advice.

Another aspect of the profession is the implementation of ordered measures:

• Change bandages and tend wounds
• Monitoring therapy
• Checking of the vital parameters and many more activities

Documentation and administration:

So that you have an overview of all care measures and the development of the patient or resident, document them carefully and conscientiously, note any abnormalities and changes and carefully monitor the state of health.

During your training you will learn:

• Planning, organizing, designing, implementing, controlling and evaluating nursing processes and nursing diagnostics in acute and long-term nursing situations
• to design communication and advice in a person- and situation-related manner
• To responsibly shape and help shape intra- and interprofessional action in different systemic contexts
• to reflect and justify their own actions on the basis of laws, regulations and ethical guidelines
• to reflect and justify their own actions on the basis of scientific knowledge and professional ethical values ​​and attitudes

Outpatient care and nursing:

• welfare stations
• outpatient care services
• assisted living
• outpatient intensive care
• in private households

Partial inpatient care and nursing:

• day care
• night care
• respite care
• day clinics

Inpatient care and nursing offers:

• retirement and nursing homes
• hospitals
• rehabilitation clinics
• inpatient hospices

Other fields of activity:

• counseling centers
• At home supervision
• At the medical services
• On cruise ships
• And many more options

Training at the International Nursing School

Training content:

• Design of work and relationship processes
• Support for independent living and self-care
• promote health and development
• Nursing action in curative processes and acute situations
• Nursing actions in selected nursing occasions

With us you will learn:

• Carry out care actions correctly, including the planning and evaluation of care
• Contents of nursing science and research
• Ethics at work and dealing with difficult situations
• Understand the importance of communication in nursing
• advice and guidance in care
• Personal health promotion, stress prevention
• Learning strategies, working methods, time management
• Basics for understanding clinical pictures
• Psychological basics
• Legal framework

Training in the practice facility

Nursing school and practice facilities work closely together.

• You will apply the knowledge you have learned directly in practice and thereby perceive, respect and care for people with all dimensions of their lives.
• Get to know care in practice as a holistic process with guidance, advice and support.
• Apply nursing knowledge (professional competence)
• Apply learned knowledge
• solve problems independently
• assess results
• Sget to know myself (personnel skills)
• motivate yourself
• Recognize and contribute your own strengths
• To take responsibility
• Learning to work together (social and communicative competence)
• work together as a team
• communicate with other professional groups
• Talk to and advise patients, residents and relatives
• Further learning (method and learning skills)
• acquire more knowledge for themselves
• Apply knowledge successfully in practice
• Intercultural Competence
• Perceiving people in their culture and religion and caring for them accordingly
• Reflecting on one's own values ​​and norms and relating them to others

Partner Care Facilities

During the entire training period, there is intensive cooperation between your training center and the International Nursing School.

• A regular exchange between students, practice instructors and teachers is explicitly desired.
• An intensive exchange between school and facility is self-evident
• Visits to the facilities
• personal contacts
• Practical instructor meeting in nursing school