Akademie für Medizinische Berufe

The next advanced training course is expected to start in April 2028.

• Healthcare and nursing staff
• Healthcare and pediatric nurses
• geriatric nurses
• Nurses for people with special needs
• Nursing specialist and nursing specialist

with two years of professional experience after completing their training, including at least one year in psychiatric nursing care.

Qualification for nursing tasks in the field of psychiatry, including

• Integration of current scientific nursing, medical and other scientific findings into everyday professional life
• Development and promotion of professional, personal, social and methodological skills in the professional field
• Orientation of nursing activities towards regaining, improving, maintaining and promoting the mental and physical health of patients
• Involving the patient in the planning of individual life situations and phases
• Assessment and determination of nursing care needs, planning, organization, implementation, documentation and evaluation of nursing care are integrated
• Advice and guidance for people requiring care and their relatives
• Outpatient nursing care
  

See also Continuing Education Ordinance - Psychiatry dated December 19, 2000 ] in the last amended version dated February 04, 2021

Teaching times: Mon-Fri, 8.30 am - 4.15 pm

Location: Classrooms of the Academy for Medical Professions at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg and the Emmendingen Psychiatric Center

Total scope: at least 720 teaching hours

• Basics of the reference sciences relevant to "nursing care in psychiatry" (120 hours)
• Scientific work of nurses in psychiatry (120 hours)
• Professional communication of nurses in psychiatry (120 hours)
• Ethical and legal aspects of nursing care in psychiatry (90 hours)
• Social security and health care (30 hours)
• Professional organization of a relationship in nursing care in psychiatry (120 hrs.)
• Specific treatment settings in nursing care in psychiatry (60 hours)
• Psychiatric nursing care as a combination of ethical, empirical, personal knowledge and intuition (60 hours)

Theoretical and practical teaching takes place in the form of block weeks.

Teaching times: Mon-Fri, 8.30 am - 4.15 pm

Location: classrooms at the Academy for Medical Professions at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg and at the Emmendingen Psychiatric Center

Total scope: at least 2,350 hours with compulsory and optional areas of activity

Compulsory: at least 250 hours must be completed in each of the areas listed

• Care of patients in general psychiatry
• Care of patients suffering from addiction
• Care of geriatric psychiatric patients
• Partial inpatient facilities and institutional outpatient clinics
• Complementary services and facilities

The remaining time of the advanced training must be completed in one or more of the above-mentioned areas.

• Healthcare and pediatric nurses for psychiatry
• Healthcare and pediatric nurses for psychiatry
• Geriatric nurses for psychiatry
• Mental health nurses for psychiatry
• Nursing specialist for psychiatry
• The advanced training concludes with a state examination, which consists of a written, an oral and a practical part.

The course is conducted in accordance with the further training regulations in the field of psychiatry issued by the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Social Affairs.

• Participation is free of charge for employees of the hospital.
• The course fee for external participants is €6,815

• The course comprises a total of 720 teaching units.
• You will receive 40 continuing education points as part of the registration of professional nursing care staff.