Advanced Nursing Practice

Study days
Study days during the semester are limited to two days per week and combine face-to-face and online teaching. One study day takes place online every two weeks, whilst you spend two days on campus every 14 days.

Elective area
During your degree, you will have the opportunity to specialise through an elective area, thereby developing your professional skills in a targeted manner. In doing so, you will deepen your knowledge in particularly relevant and future-oriented areas of care, which are becoming increasingly important due to demographic developments and the growing complexity of the health care system:

• Acute and Critical Care Nursing for anyone wishing to take on responsibility in acute and intensive care settings. Particular emphasis is placed on the management and coordination of complex treatment processes, the implementation of evidence-based Nursing interventions and the optimisation of the quality of care.
• Community Health Nursing for those who wish to play an active role in shaping health promotion and Nursing care outside the hospital setting. The aim is to ensure needs-based care outside acute inpatient settings, to promote health equity and to support vulnerable population groups.

Practical Experience
The degree programme is characterised by a continuous focus on practical application and offers you the opportunity to work part-time in a clinical setting alongside your studies – something that is expressly encouraged. In the department’s skills labs, you can also expect numerous practical exercises where you can practise nursing techniques and concepts under realistic conditions. In this way, you combine theory and practice right from the start and develop the confidence to implement the requirements of advanced Nursing practice competently and confidently. The fifth semester also includes a comprehensive practical module, during which you will have the opportunity to shadow experienced nurses and advanced practice nurses in their day-to-day clinical work.

Study Abroad
In the final semester, you have the opportunity to undertake a study abroad placement and thus gain international experience in a nursing context. This gives you the chance to undertake a placement in countries such as the USA, Canada, Switzerland or the Netherlands, where the role of Advanced Practice Nurses is already firmly established. Gaining an insight into other healthcare systems opens up new perspectives on advanced nursing practice and enables you to expand your professional profile in a targeted manner and benefit from international best practices.

Certificate
You will also receive the ‘Nursing Adviser’ certificate. You will acquire all the necessary skills in the ‘Guidance, Counselling and Case Management’ module, which is based on the recommendations of the GKV-Spitzenverband regarding the required number, qualifications and continuing professional development of nursing advisers.

Completed initial vocational training

Applicants must be able to provide evidence of having successfully completed initial vocational training (in addition to the degree described below). This must have been undertaken in one of the following occupational fields:

• Registered Nurse
• Paediatric and Child Health Nurse
• Health and Medical Nurse
• Geriatric Nurse

Completed degree

Admission to the Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) master's degree programme is generally possible if a relevant first professional university degree has been obtained beforehand.

The degree must be nursing-related and may, for example, have been obtained in one of the following degree programmes:

• Nursing
• Nursing Science
• Nursing Management
• Nursing Education

Other forms of evidence may be accepted

The specialist focus of the first professionally qualifying university degree may, in exceptional cases, also be demonstrated by other documents. These include

• particularly outstanding achievements in professional practice following the first professionally qualifying university degree,
• particularly outstanding achievements in the second half of the first professionally qualifying university degree programme, or
• a thesis of outstanding quality and particularly relevant to the nursing and health care sector from the first professionally qualifying university degree programme.

Important:

The necessary assessments are made by the examination board following the submission of suitable documentation during the application and enrolment process – where necessary, a personal interview may also take place.

German language skills

For applicants who did not obtain their university entrance qualification in Germany or at a German school abroad, proof of sufficient German language skills is required as a further admission requirement. This applies also to German citizens.