Your advanced training
"Pediatric intensive care"
Duration of advanced training: approx. 22 months for full-time employment, possibly longer for part-time employment
Start of advanced training: annually, starting in December
The next advanced training course is expected to start in December 2026.
- Nursing care staff with a professional license in accordance with Section 1 of the Nursing Professions Act.
- Nurses from pediatric or neonatal intensive care units with at least one year's professional experience, including at least six months in a neonatal or pediatric intensive care unit.
Qualification for nursing tasks in pediatric 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.
- Provision, operation and monitoring of the equipment required to maintain vital functions as well as proper handling of instruments, equipment, products, aids and medicines, insofar as this is part of the intensive care area of responsibility.
- Planning and organizing the nursing workflow in intensive care units and anaesthesia departments.
- Providing specialist instruction and training for healthcare and pediatric 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 the nurses as well as accident prevention regulations and other legal regulations.
- Applying quality assurance methods.
Total scope: 720 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 towards the advanced training courses in intensive care, intermediate care, emergency care and anesthesia care.
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: 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 in pediatric intensive care: total: 550 hours
Specialist modules impart relevant specialized knowledge.
Specialist module I | Performing core tasks in pediatric intensive care | 140 hours |
Module unit 1 | Designing structural and organizational processes in paediatric intensive care | 4 hours |
Module unit 2 | Monitoring paediatric patients, evaluating results, recognizing emergency situations and acting appropriately | 24 hours |
Module unit 3 | Implementing hygiene guidelines | 8 hours |
Module unit 4 | Performing diagnostic and therapeutic tasks | 24 hours |
Module unit 5 | Implementing supportive concepts in the care of pediatric patients, e.g. basal stimulation, kinaesthetics | 40 hours |
Module unit 6 | Supporting pediatric patients and their caregivers in the last phase of life | 20 hours |
Module unit 7 | Acting in ethical conflict situations | 20 hours |
Specialist module II | Caring for pediatric patients with illnesses requiring intensive care and trauma | 230 hours |
Module unit 1 | Assessing the situation of the respiratory-impaired pediatric patient and acting accordingly | 60 hours |
Module unit 2 | Assessing the situation of the cardiovascularly impaired pediatric patient and acting accordingly | 50 hours |
Module unit 3 | Assessing the situation of the pediatric patient with metabolic and excretory disorders and acting accordingly (incl. nutrition) | 30 hours |
Module unit 4 | Assessing the situation of the pediatric patient with disorders of the hematopoietic system and acting accordingly | 30 hours |
Module unit 5 | Assessing and acting appropriately in the pediatric patient with neurological disorders | 20 hours |
Module unit 6 | Assessing the situation of the pediatric trauma patient and acting accordingly (pediatric surgery) | 24 hours |
Module unit 7 | Assessing the situation of a pediatric patient suffering from an infection and acting accordingly | 16 hours |
Specialist module III | Performing nursing tasks in anesthesia | 80 hours |
Module unit 1 | Applying the basics of anesthesia | 20 hours |
Module unit 2 | Safely organizing perioperative procedures | 10 hours |
Module unit 3 | Performing tasks in the context of specific anesthesia procedures | 10 hours |
Module unit 4 | Performing tasks in the context of case-oriented anesthesia | 40 hours |
Specialist module IV | Caring for premature and sick newborns | 70 hours |
Module unit 1 | Caring for premature and sick newborns postnatally and acting appropriately in emergency situations | 20 hours |
Module unit 2 | Nursing care for premature and sick newborns in a family-oriented and development-promoting manner | 20 hours |
Module unit 3 | Situational nursing care for premature and sick newborns with complex diseases | 30 hours |
Teaching hours at free disposal | Consolidation, excursion, examination etc. | 30 hours |
Total scope: 2,350 hours with compulsory and optional areas of work
- 600 hours in an interdisciplinary pediatric intensive care unit, of which 100 hours can be spent in an adult intensive care unit (surgical or conservative intensive care units) or in a neonatal intensive care unit with designated pediatric intensive care places.
- 660 hours in a neonatal intensive care unit.
- 350 hours of anesthesia.
- 740 hours to be distributed among the above-mentioned areas.
External participants can be employed in their own hospital after consultation with the head of advanced training.
- Further training title healthcare and nursing professional*/healthcare and pediatric nurse*/pediatric nurse*/nursing specialist*/senior nurse* for pediatric 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 €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.
Tina Lauterbach
MScR Nursing Care, Vocational Educator in Healthcare
Phone: 0761 270-92665
tina.lauterbach@uniklinik-freiburg.de