Your advanced training
Intensive care
Duration of advanced training: 20 months for full-time employment, possibly longer for part-time employment
Start of training: annually beginning December
The next advanced training course is expected to start in December 2026.
- Nursing staff with a professional license in accordance with Section 1 of the Nursing Professions Act
- Nursing care staff in intensive care units with at least one year's professional experience, including at least six months in an intensive care unit
Qualification for nursing tasks in intensive care, including
- Participation in the continuous monitoring and implementation of treatment measures for patients with acute disorders of elementary vital functions
- Assisting with resuscitation measures including artificial respiration and external cardiac massage, and initiating these measures independently if necessary
- Supporting medical action in the implementation and monitoring of specialist therapeutic and diagnostic measures
- Providing, operating and monitoring the equipment required to maintain vital functions as well as handling instruments, equipment, products, aids and medicines appropriately, insofar as this is part of the intensive care area of responsibility
- Planning and organizing the nursing workflow in intensive care units
- Providing specialist instruction and training for healthcare and nursing staff, further training participants, healthcare and nursing students, healthcare and pediatric nursing students and other employees
- Compliance with and monitoring of hygiene in the area of responsibility of nursing staff as well as accident prevention regulations and other legal regulations
- Applying quality assurance methods
Total scope: 585 hours, divided into modules
Our state-recognized advanced training is offered in modules. Modules are self-contained learning units. The modules are offered in parts together for the various advanced training courses.
The contents of the basic modules can be credited to other advanced training courses within the scope of their equivalence.
The theoretical lessons take place in block phases (1-2 weeks each) and possibly as study days.
Lesson times: Mon-Fri, 8.30 am - 4.00 pm
Location: classrooms of the Academy for Medical Professions at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg
Basic modules: 170 hours in total
Basic modules provide basic content for the areas of intensive care, IMC and emergency care as well as for nursing care in anesthesia. They address fundamental nursing-relevant topics from the related sciences that are independent of the area of application.
Basic module I | Applying professional basics | 94 hours |
Module unit 1 | Thinking and acting ethically and inclusively | 16 hours |
Module unit 2 | Theory-based nursing care | 32 hours |
Module unit 3 | Incorporating models of health and illness into nursing care | 12 hours |
Module unit 4 | Acting economically in healthcare | 18 hours |
Module unit 5 | Basics of emergency management | 8 hours |
Module unit 6 | Basics of hygiene management | 8 hours |
Basic module II | Initiating and shaping developments | 76 hours |
Module unit 1 | Learning | 36 hours |
Module unit 2 | Planning and designing instruction processes | 16 hours |
Module unit 3 | Quality management - designing work processes in complex situations | 16 hours |
Module unit 4 | Working in projects | 8 hours |
Specialist modules: 415 hours in total
The respective specialist modules cover specific specialist knowledge with different thematic focuses. The module structure is interdisciplinary.
Specialist module I | Performing core tasks in intensive care | 88 hours |
Module unit 1 | Designing structural and organizational processes in intensive care | 8 hours |
Module unit 2 | Treatment situations of patients with impaired hemodynamics | 24 hours |
Module unit 3 | Practical implementation of hygiene guidelines | 6 hours |
Module unit 4 | Considering legal requirements in practice | 8 hours |
Module unit 5 | Performing tasks in diagnostic and therapeutic measures | 24 hours |
Module unit 6 | Implementing supportive concepts in the care of patients | 18 hours |
Specialist module II | Caring for patients with illnesses requiring intensive care and trauma | 120 hours |
Module unit 1 | Assessing treatment situations of patients with respiratory impairments and acting accordingly | 48 hours |
Module unit 2 | Assessing treatment situations of patients with cardiovascular impairment and acting accordingly | 48 hours |
Module unit 3 | Assessing and acting appropriately in the treatment of patients with trauma-related impairments | 24 hours |
Specialist module III | Caring for patients with illnesses requiring intensive care and infections | 96 hours |
Module unit 1 | Assessing treatment situations of patients with gastroenterological diseases, nephrological diseases and metabolic diseases and acting accordingly | 24 hours |
Module unit 2 | Assessing the situation of patients with disorders of the haematopoietic system and acting accordingly | 12 hours |
Module unit 3 | Assessing treatment situations of patients with impaired perception and consciousness and acting accordingly | 48 hours |
Module unit 4 | Assessing the situation of a patient suffering from an infection and acting accordingly | 12 hours |
Specialist module IV | Perceiving life situations and making and supporting decisions | 42 hours |
Module unit 1 | Recognizing and supporting patients in special life situations | 6 hours |
Module unit 2 | Accompanying patients and their caregivers in the last phase of life | 16 hours |
Module unit 3 | Acting in ethical conflict situations | 20 hours |
Specialist module V | Nursing interventions in anesthesia | 40 hours |
Module unit 1 | Applying the basics of anesthesia, interdisciplinary content for intensive and anesthesia care | 20 hours |
Module unit 2 | Performing tasks in the context of specific anesthesia procedures | 10 hours |
Module unit 3 | Performing tasks in the context of case-oriented anesthesia | 10 hours |
Teaching hours at free disposal | For example, free time for in-depth study, excursion Examination | 29 hours |
Total scope: 1550 hours, placement in at least two different intensive care units (internal medicine and surgery). External participants can be deployed in their own hospital after consultation with the head of advanced training.
- Further training title "Health and nursing professional*/health and pediatric nurse*/health and pediatric nurse*/nursing specialist*/senior nurse* for intensive care"
- The advanced training courses are based on the Ordinance of the Ministry of Social Affairs on Advanced Training for Nursing Professions in Baden-Württemberg (WVO-Pflegeberufe) dated October 22, 2020.
- The advanced training concludes with a state examination, which consists of a written, an oral and a practical part.
- Participation is free of charge for employees of the hospital.
- The course fee for external participants is €5,200
- The course comprises a total of 585 teaching units.
- You will receive 40 continuing education points as part of the registration of professional nursing care staff.
Dietmar Noll
Intensive care and anesthesia nurse
Nursing educator
Phone: 0761 270-92550
dietmar.noll@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Bettina Steinhauer
B.A. Vocational teacher for health and social professions
Phone: 0761 270-92669
bettina.steinhauer@uniklinik-freiburg.de