Your advanced training
Intermediate Care
Duration of advanced training: 13 months for full-time employment, longer for part-time employment if necessary
Start of advanced training: As required, starting in February
Focus of advanced training: Adults or pediatrics
The next advanced training course is expected to start in February 2027.
- Nursing care staff with a professional license in accordance with Section 1 of the Nursing Professions Act.
- Nursing care staff in intermediate care units with at least one year's professional experience, including at least six months in an intermediate care area.
- Integration of current scientific nursing, medical and other scientific findings into everyday professional life.
- Development and promotion of professional, personal, social and methodological competence in the professional field.
- Expanding the ability to monitor patients at risk of death using invasive and non-invasive monitoring.
- Recognize therapeutically relevant and life-threatening complications.
- Safe care of patients in the event of life-threatening complications until transfer to subsequent care units.
- Assessment and determination of nursing care needs and planning, organization, implementation, documentation and evaluation of nursing care.
Total scope: 360 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 content of the basic modules can be credited to the advanced training courses in intensive care, emergency care, pediatric intensive care and anesthesia care within the scope of equivalence.
The theoretical lessons take place in block phases (1-2 weeks each) and possibly as study days.
Teaching 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: 100 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.
IMC basic module | Applying professional principles and initiating and shaping developments | 100 hours |
Module unit 1 | Thinking and acting ethically and inclusively | 16 hours |
Module unit 2 | Incorporating models of health and illness into nursing care | 12 hours |
Module unit 3 | Acting economically in healthcare | 18 hours |
Module unit 4 | Basics of emergency management | 8 hours |
Module unit 5 | Basics of hygiene management | 8 hours |
Module unit 6 | Learning | 22 hours |
Module unit 7 | QM - Designing work processes in complex situations | 16 hours |
Specialist modules IMC: total: 260 hours
Specialist modules impart relevant specialized knowledge.
Specialist module I | Performing core tasks in intermediate care nursing care | 100 hours |
Module unit 1 | Designing structural and organizational processes in the intermediate care area and taking legal requirements into account in practice | 16 hours |
Module unit 2 | Monitoring intermediate care patients Recognizing emergency situations and acting appropriately | 24 hours |
Module unit 3 | Implement hygiene guidelines in practice and assess the situation of a patient suffering from an infection and act accordingly | 22 hours |
Module unit 4 | Performing diagnostic and therapeutic tasks in an interdisciplinary team | 20 hours |
Module unit 5 | Implementing concepts in the care of intermediate care patients | 18 hours |
Specialist module II | Competently supporting, implementing and evaluating special nursing care and treatment measures for patients on the intermediate care ward | Focus on adults: | Focus on pediatrics: |
Module unit 1 | Assess the situation of the intermediate care patient with respiratory disorders and act accordingly. | 30 hours | 28 hours |
Module unit 2 | Assess the situation of the intermediate care patient with cardiovascular disorders and act accordingly. | 30 hours | 28 hours |
Module unit 3 | Assess the situation of the intermediate care patient with metabolic and excretory disorders and act accordingly. | 30 hours | 28 hours |
Specialist module III | Managing special nursing care situations in intermediate care | Focus on adults: | Focus on pediatrics: |
Module unit 1 | Assess the situation of the intermediate care patient with neurological disorders and act accordingly. | 34 hours | 28 hours |
Module unit 2 | Recognize the situation of the patient with dementia and provide situational support. | 16 hours | 0 hours |
Module unit 3 | Perceiving the situation in neonatology and providing situational support. | 0 hours | 28 hours |
Module unit 4 | Recognizing patients in special life situations and providing situational support. | 20 hours | 20 hours |
Focus on adults
- 800 hours on two different IMC wards recognized in the bed plan or on an interdisciplinary IMC ward.
- 100 hours on an intensive care unit.
- External participants can also be assigned to their own hospital after consultation with the training supervisor.
Focus on pediatrics
- 800 hours on a ward with IMC beds
- 100 hours in a pediatric or neonatal intensive care unit
- Further training title "Healthcare and nursing professional*/healthcare and pediatric nurse*/healthcare and pediatric nurse*/nursing specialist*/senior nurse* for intermediate care with a focus on adults or pediatrics.
- 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 €4,610.
- The course comprises a total of 360 teaching units.
- You will receive 30 continuing education points as part of the registration of professional nursing care staff.
Andreas Leonhardt
B.A. Vocational Educator in Healthcare
Phone: 0761 270-92551
andreas.leonhardt@uniklinik-freiburg.de