Scientific environment

Paracelsus Medical Private University ensures science funding, practice-oriented research competence and both inter-professional and international orientation already from the first semester. The cooperating health care and nursing care schools guarantee comprehensive special competence of their teachers and to didactically high-value teaching. All this together is a guarantee for a pleasant and personal learning environment in which the quality is the highest principle and the individual stands in the centre.

Flexibility and freedom of choice

With the health care and nursing care diploma to postdoctoral graduation!

The graduation from this study offers best possibilities for further development in the healthcare field and a higher qualification is possible at any time.

Professional chances and fields of activity

A leading goal of the university is to educate its graduates as professional and competent healthcare providers with scientific expertise.

The dynamic changes in the field of healthcare and in the society require innovative and competent care in the areas of healthcare, prevention and consulting. This can be ensured only by professional healthcare specialists who have knowledge in both the practical care and the scientific area.

Therefore, the bachelor course of study in the Nursing Science 2in1-Model provides abilities, skills and competences in the healthcare and nursing education as well as a scientific qualification. The versatile professional field of the nursing practice and nursing science opens attractive fields of activity in the healthcare and nursing facilities, health insurance companies, ministries, publishing houses, health-consultant groups and medical companies in the nursing sector and also freelance work.

This education corresponds to the basic understanding of a professional occupation at international level.

After the successful completion of the study, all opportunities for professional activities specified in GuKG 1997 § 35 are open to the graduates in their capacity of graduated healthcare and nursing professionals:

• Freelance
• In employment relationship to a hospital
• Employment relationship to other institutions under physician or nursing management or supervision, which serve for the prevention, diagnosing or treatment of diseases or aftercare, care for the handicapped, for people in need of care, or providing blood or blood components, or offer other healthcare and social services
• In employment relationship to freelance active physicians
• In employment relationship to public or religious institutions offering home care and rehabilitation services
• In employment relationship to a physical person.There are also many possibilities open for specialisation and further education in accordance with GuKG 1997. On the basis of their academic graduation as bachelors of science in nursing, the graduates can work professionally on a freelance basis in the following work fields or in employment relationship – as a rule in the sense of "change agents" – in the healthcare field in:
• Hospitals, old people nursing homes, outpatient healthcare,
• health insurance companies and nursing care institutions,
• ministries,
• consumer bodies, Charity organisations, public health departments,
• publishing houses,
• health-consultant groups or medical companies in the healthcare sector.
• In nursing science fields of activity in the development cooperation areas or in transition countries

Specific features

Internship abroad:
Currently there are cooperation agreements with study courses in nursing and nursing science (schools of nursing) of University of North Florida/USA, the Louisiana College/USA, the Old Dominion University in Virginia/USA, the Brock University in Ontario/Canada, the University of Adelaide/Australia, the Khon Kaen University/Thailand as well as the University of Stirling/Schottland. The university as a whole has also other renowned international cooperation partners.

Optimal student support – mentoring:
The students stand in the centre. The educators should be not only knowledge mediators, but above all also mentors who continuously support the students in acquiring the necessary skills and competences.

Study start

Always in October

Study duration

7 semesters, 210 ECTS

Graduation

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN) – a subsequent master’s degree program is possible at Paracelsus University
• Certificate in the general or the psychiatric healthcare and nursing care

Contents, goals

• Curriculum for healthcare and nursing according to the law
• Science funding
• Practice-oriented research competence

Design

• Competence-oriented learning and teaching
• Practice-oriented education, practice nationally and internationally
• Practice-oriented research
• International exchange of students and lecturers (e.g. with the University of North Florida)
• Individual support through small study groups
  
  

The study is designed as a full-time study program with attendance hours, self-study and internship phases.

The theoretical and practical learning contents are condensed by a consistent interlinking of the contents of the healthcare and nursing care education (in accordance with GuKG 1997) with the nursing science contents This permits to graduate both from the practical care education and the scientific expertise in a study period of only seven semesters.

The study plans for the Nursing Science 2in1-Model

• General diploma in healthcare and nursing care
• Psychiatric care diploma in healthcare and nursing care, and
• Diploma in children and young people healthcare

can be found in the download section.

General university entrance qualifications (higher-school certificate/school-leaving examination or university entrance examination).

The university entrance examination consists of five separate exams: Mathematics, living foreign language, biology and at least one additional selective speciality (depending on the choice of the candidates, ranging from the area of their desired field of study, their professional prerequisites, or the professional fields of activity corresponding to the study).

The study fees are 1,660 Euros per study year (plus an annual valorisation from the second year of study); in addition there is a one-time processing fee of 50 Euros at the start of the study and annual examination fee of 125 Euros.

The students are insured for social security due to their student status at the cooperated schools during the time of the study and receive a monthly allowance depending on the state-based regulations.

The healthcare and nursing schools are integrated in the teaching hospitals. This is because the practical experience has the highest priority in the structure and the orientation of the study: The formulations of questions are generated from the practical everyday work and the results are then transferred there. The Institute of Nursing Science and Practice is particularly proud of having established for the first time nursing science teaching hospitals.

The application takes place through the cooperated healthcare and nursing care schools:

		Landeskrankenhaus Vöcklabruck Contact: Dir. Mag. Dagmar Einschwanger, MBA Tel.: +43 50554 71-21803 schule.vb@gespag.at http://gesundheitsberufe.gespag.at/
		Landeskrankenhaus Steyr Contact: Dir. Mag. Heide Maria Jackel, MBA Tel.: +43 50554 66-21801 schule.sr@gespag.at http://gesundheitsberufe.gespag.at/
		Psychiatrische Gesundheits- und Krankenpflegeschule an der Nervenklinik Linz Wagner-Jauregg Contact: Dir. Mag. Margit Wimberger Tel: +43 5 055462-21841 schule.wj@gespag.at
		Landes-Frauen- und Kinderklinik Linz Ausbildungszentrum Contact: Dir. Martha Böhm Tel: +43 5 055463-21821 schule.kk@gespag.at
		Klinikum Wels-Grieskirchen Contact: Frau Dir. Mag. Karin Zauner Tel.: +43 7242 415-2510 pflegeschule@klinikum-wegr.at http://www.klinikum-wegr.at/
		Kardinal Schwarzenberg’sches Krankenhaus Schwarzach Contact: Frau Dir. Mag. Agnes Wimmer Tel.: +43 6415 7101-2710 krankenpflege.schule@kh-schwarzach.at http://www.kh-schwarzach.at/