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Dual Cooperative Study Program in Nursing (Bachelor of Arts)

With the Dual Cooperative Study Program in Nursing (B.A.), the current three-year vocational training program in adult, pediatric, or geriatric nursing is combined and supplemented with a university of applied sciences education. The program connects three different learning environments: nursing school, university, and on-the-job practical experience. The program has been fully accredited with the official seal of the Accreditation Council and has been offered since Summer Semester 2012.

Program Aim

The program is oriented on the future occupational demands of dynamic and developing professional field of nursing. Students are given a comprehensive theory-driven and evidence-based understanding of the nursing profession and its associated preventative and health-promoting, palliative, and rehabilitative task areas. Further professional qualification in the area of office management or management of a nursing team or functional unit is also offered. In addition to technical, methodological, social-communicative, and personal skills, competency in the scientific method is especially encouraged.

Program Organization and Structure

This eight-semester program includes a total of ten modules. Each module concludes with a final module exam.

The first phase of the program (semesters 1-5) is integrated with student’s vocational training or work. During this phase, students attend courses at the university for one set day per week. The focus lies in deepening the educational/program content in the areas of nursing, health, and social sciences. In addition, students acquire the basics in taking patient information, counseling, and educating patients (“Patient Education”), health promotion, and (care) prevention.

After the completion of the student’s vocational training program in nursing, the second phase of the program (semesters 6-8) is comprised of full-time studies. The focus lies in advancing and furthering the program content learned during the first phase, as well as in conducting nursing and health-related research projects, obtaining qualification in the areas of office management, nursing- or functional team management, as well as writing the Bachelor’s thesis.

Degree

After successfully completing the program with 180 ECTS credit points, graduates are awarded the academic title of “Bachelor of Arts” (B.A.). The program qualifies students for the following career fields:

  • Specialist in nursing care.
  • Direct care: assessment, diagnostics, evidence-based intervention, and evaluation in complex nursing situations.
  • Development and implementation of programs for specific clinical issues / standards and guidelines.
  • Application-related nursing issues, e.g. pain, nutrition, continence and incontinence.
  • Educating and counseling people from all age groups, including patients, residents, and caregivers.
  • (Care) prevention and health promotion.
  • Health Care Management (case and discharge management).


Elective Module with Certificate

Elective Module W1: Nurse Instructor

or

Elective Module W2: Nursing or Functional Unit Management

The requirements of the Rheinland-Pfalz regulations governing the further educational training of medical office managers and/or managers of nursing teams or functional units are fulfilled with the respective module.

Study Goal

The course of study is oriented towards the future requirements of the nursing profession in dynamically developing fields of work. Students are enabled to perform the nursing, preventive, health-promoting, palliative and rehabilitative tasks associated with the nursing professions in a comprehensive, theory-guided and evidence-based manner. In addition, further professional qualification is made possible in the area of practice guidance or the management of a nursing or functional unit. Beyond professional competence, methodological competence, social-communicative and personal competence, especially scientific methodological competence is promoted. 

The Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences offers a consecutive master's degree program for graduates of the bachelor's degree program in nursing (dual): Innovative Care Practice in Nursing and Midwifery

Study organization and structure

The program is designed as an 8-semester course of study comprising a total of ten modules (see module handbook in the right-hand column). Each module concludes with a module examination.

The first part of the study program (1st to 5th semester) is integrated into training or part-time with one fixed study day per week. The focus is on the academic consolidation of nursing, health and social science training/study content and additionally on the development of basics of information, counseling and training of patients ("patient education"), health promotion and (nursing) prevention.

The second study section (6th to 8th semesters) is completed as a full-time course of study after completion of the nursing training. The focus is on the deepening and further development of the study contents of the first study section, the self-selected implementation of nursing and health-related research projects, the qualification in the field of practice initiation or management of a nursing or functional unit as well as the preparation of a bachelor thesis.

Conclusion

Upon successful completion of the program, graduates are awarded the academic degree "Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)" with 180 credit points (ECTS). The degree program qualifies students for the following fields of work, for example:

  • Specialist in nursing;
  • Direct care: assessment, nursing diagnostics, evidence-based intervention & evaluation in complex care situations ;
  • Development and implementation of programs to deal with specific clinical problems/standards and guidelines ;
  • Application-related issues: e.g. pain, nutrition, continence/incontinence;
  • Information, training and counseling of people of all ages, patients, residents and caregivers;
  • (Nursing) prevention and health promotion;
  • Care management (case management, discharge management).

Elective modules with certificate

Elective module 1: Practical guidance

or

Elective module 2: Management of a nursing or functional unit ("ward management")

Contact

Simone Hartmann-Eisele

Studiengangskoordination

Maxstr. 29
67059 Ludwigshafen

+49 172 7166429