Your advanced training
Anesthesia care
Duration of advanced training: 13 months for full-time employment, possibly longer for part-time employment
Start of training: annual start in December or January
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 anesthesia departments with at least one year's professional experience, including at least six months in an anesthesia department
Qualification for nursing tasks in anesthesia care, including
- Providing individual, planned, patient-oriented nursing care during the perioperative phase and supporting the patient's relatives/caregivers
- Preparing patients for anesthesia and the recovery room
- Assisting with the induction, maintenance and withdrawal of anesthesia
- Assisting and carrying out medical orders for diagnostic and therapeutic measures in accordance with specified standards
- Caring for patients in the recovery room or on the recovery ward
- Assisting with resuscitation measures including artificial respiration and external cardiac massage, initiating these measures independently if necessary
- Planning and organizing the nursing workflow in anaesthesia departments
- 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: 435 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, 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: 265 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 anaesthesia care | 38 hours |
Module unit 1 | Designing structural and organizational processes in the field of anaesthesia | 6 hours |
Module unit 2 | Treatment situations of patients with impaired hemodynamics | 18 hours |
Module unit 3 | Practical implementation of hygiene guidelines | 6 hours |
Module unit 4 | Considering legal requirements in practice | 8 hours |
Specialist module II | Caring for patients with illnesses requiring intensive care and trauma | 38 hours |
Module unit 1 | Assessing treatment situations of patients with respiratory impairments and acting accordingly | 18 hours |
Module unit 2 | Assessing treatment situations of patients with cardiovascular impairment and acting accordingly | 20 hours |
Specialist module III | Caring for patients with illnesses and infections requiring intensive care | 8 hours |
Module unit 1 | Assessing the situation of patients with disorders of the haematopoietic system and acting accordingly | 8 hours |
Specialist module IV | Perceiving life situations and making and supporting decisions | 10 hours |
Module unit 1 | Supporting patients and their caregivers in the last phase of life | 6 hours |
Module unit 2 | Acting in ethical conflict situations | 4 hours |
Specialist module V | Nursing interventions in anesthesia | 155 hours |
Module unit 1 | Applying the basics of anesthesia | 40 hours |
Module unit 2 | Apply advanced principles of anesthesia | 25 hours |
Module unit 3 | Safely organizing perioperative procedures | 25 hours |
Module unit 4 | Performing tasks in the context of specific anesthesia procedures | 15 hours |
Module unit 5 | Performing tasks in the context of case-oriented anesthesia | 50 hours |
Specialist module | Nursing interventions in anesthesia | 16 hours |
Consolidation, excursion, examination etc. | 16 hours |
Total scope: 800 hours
- Deployment in at least three surgical anesthesia departments.
- External participants can be deployed in their own hospital after consultation with the head of advanced training.
- Further training title "Healthcare and nursing professional*/healthcare and pediatric nurse*/healthcare and pediatric nurse*/nursing specialist*/senior nurse* for anesthesia 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) of 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 435 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
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