Psychiatric nurse

• 2 years

• Care and support for mentally ill people in inpatient, day care, or outpatient settings
• Participation in leisure, discussion, exercise, and activity groups, as well as occupational therapy and assistance with medical and therapeutic measures
• Administration of medically prescribed medication and injections
• Contact person for patients
• Recognizing patients' physical, mental, and social needs and problems relevant to care
• Applying nursing science knowledge and skills
• Putting theoretical approaches into practice
• Collaborating on the development of new mental health care concepts, implementing them in the workplace, and advising people in need of care and their relatives
• Accompanying patients on outpatient visits outside the clinic or ward
• Billing, organizational, and administrative tasks

The advanced training program teaches the following skills:

• Higher qualification of professional competence in all psychiatric nursing fields
• Skills in mediating everyday situations, recognizing overall contexts
• Reflective and self-critical attitude when dealing with patients/clients
• Social skills with regard to communication, cooperation, coordination, and constructive collaboration in a team and with internal and external service providers
• Knowledge of developments, processes, group dynamics, families, and alternative lifestyles, as well as working with relatives

• Successful participation in and completion of a three-year training programme in a nursing profession (health and nursing care, health and paediatric nursing, nursing specialist, geriatric care, curative education)
• Two years of relevant professional experience, including at least one year in a psychiatric field

• 720 hours in a block system

• 2.350 hours of practical training

The practical training components (including 5 mandatory areas of work, each of which must not be less than 250 hours in duration according to the Further Training Ordinance – Psychiatry, 2000) can largely be completed at the MediClin Klinik an der Lindenhöhe or at other cooperation partners.

• The improved qualifications and newly acquired specialist knowledge open up the possibility of acting as a manager in a team of nursing staff, guiding them and ensuring that the quality of the care provided meets the required standards.
• Further qualifications and studies are also possible, e.g., management in healthcare, psychiatric nursing, or applied nursing science, etc.

• 7290,- Euros