Our school logo says it all – we offer modern training to become a female nurse (Pflegefachfrau) or a male nurse (Pflegefachmann), in which you matter and you are at the centre!
With our training you can work internationally in all kinds of care settings. In a hospital, but also in a children's hospital, in a hospice, in care homes for older people, in home care services, in rehabilitation clinics and in many other places.
Our generalist professional qualification is the route into every field of nursing!
- Our training concept is based on current knowledge in nursing science and related disciplines.
- At the same time, we have many years of experience – our school has existed for 100 years.
- Our training is individual. If you wish, you can complement it with a parallel degree programme. And you have many choices in your practical training!
- We are diverse! Our learners are of different ages and have different educational backgrounds or previous experience.
- Very important: we work in small classes with a maximum of 20 learners. We have time and space for each and every one of you!
- Our dedicated team of five nursing teachers and around 20 lecturers goes the extra mile for you!
- Nursing matters to us. That is why it needs practice-oriented, modern, comprehensive and well-founded training!
- Together with our cooperation partners, we have created an attractive training network
- Ask around – the "Diakoniekrankenhaus" stands for good training!
Application
Training starts on 01 April every year – you can apply at any time, there is no deadline! As soon as we have received your documents, we will get in touch with you!
The following statutory entry requirements also apply with us:
- Medical fitness
- Good knowledge of the German language
If German is not your native language, you need knowledge corresponding to level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages. - An intermediate school-leaving certificate (mittlerer Schulabschluss) or another qualification recognised as equivalent, or successful completion of another ten-year general school education.
- If you have a lower secondary school-leaving certificate (Hauptschulabschluss) , you additionally need proof of a) successfully completed vocational training lasting at least two years, or b) successfully completed state-regulated assistant or auxiliary training in nursing lasting at least one year, or c) a licence as a nursing assistant.
- If your certificates from abroad need to be recognised, please contact https://rp.baden-wuerttemberg.de/rps/abt7/zeugnisanerkennungsstelle
Your application:
- Cover letter
- tabular CV
- School-leaving certificate / most recent school report
- Employer references or proof of internships, if available
by e-mail (attachments as PDF) to pflegeschule@diak-fr.de
by post to
Berufsfachschule für Pflege
am Evangelischen Diakoniekrankenhaus
Alexander Fuhr
Wirthstr. 11
79110 Freiburg
For the bachelor’s degree programme APPLIED NURSING SCIENCE (Angewandte Pflegewissenschaft), you also need a confirmed study place from the Katholische Hochschule Freiburg.
If you have any questions, please feel free to call us on 0761 1301-9600 (office).
Open school
With us, you learn in a pleasant and personal atmosphere.
We respect you as a partner. Your experiences, questions and commitment matter to us. We ensure a good school climate. Our learners take responsible part in numerous decisions. And they always have a contact person with us. Our doors are always open to them.
School as a place of learning
Our school's own curriculum focuses on selected learning situations with practice-oriented content. In these, we combine nursing, medical and other aspects into one overarching topic. Our learning situations build on each other in complexity, so that you can gradually expand your skills.
Through the use of a wide variety of methods and time for revision, you will achieve your training goals with enjoyment and success. The modern facilities of our school help you with this. In the media library you will find extensive learning materials, and all lesson materials are digitally accessible in our cloud.
Learning in practice
The focus of our training is on nursing in hospital. With its recognised high standards, our hospital, with its departments of
- Internal Medicine
- Surgery
- Anaesthesiology / Intensive Care Medicine
- Gynaecology / Obstetrics
offers ideal conditions for practice-oriented training.
You will get to know hospital nursing on the wards and, if you wish, also
- in the outpatient clinics
- in the operating theatre
- in anaesthesia
- in the intensive care unit
- in the endoscopy department
- in discharge management
Further placements in outpatient care, care of older people and in a psychiatric facility are also part of the training. For this purpose, we have formed a cooperation network with the Evang. Sozialstation Freiburg, our Gerontopsychiatrisches Pflegezentrum Landwasser (gerontopsychiatric care centre) and our rehabilitation facility for young people, Haus Landwasser.
Learning in practice is of very special importance. There is no more immediate way to learn nursing than through direct contact. At every placement, experienced practice instructors will help you. With our learning tools, developed individually by the school and the practice settings, we provide practical training that is recognised as being of high quality.
Philosophy
For us, our hospital's mission statement is not an empty phrase but a programme. Nurses are close to people and therefore need a high level of professional competence.
For us, this includes:
Cognitive competence
with comprehensive, evidence-based and up-to-date specialist knowledge in all areas of knowledge required for individual nursing care.
Linguistic and communicative competence
as the ability to communicate constructively and as equals with patients and relatives, with team colleagues and with other professional groups.
Moral competence
in order to assess nursing situations according to ethical standards and to act responsibly towards other people.
Psychomotor competence
with comprehensive practical skills in order to provide person-centred care to patients.
Emotional competence
in order to perceive and express feelings in oneself and in other people.
With these competences, you can experience professional nursing as a modern profession in all its fields of work.
Pay and other benefits
The training allowance is governed by the TVöD collective agreement and currently amounts to the following gross monthly sums:
in the 1st year of training € 1415,69
in the 2nd year of training € 1477,07
in the 3rd year of training € 1578,38
In addition, there are supplements, e.g. for work on Sundays or public holidays, an attractive company supplementary pension scheme with the EZVK in Darmstadt and, on application, capital-forming benefits (vermögenswirksame Leistungen).
Holidays
You have 30 days of annual leave per year, which we do not schedule in advance. Within a certain framework, you are free to plan your leave.
Training materials
Work clothing and all other training materials are provided by us. You can also take part in staff catering in our cafeteria.
Award-winning employer
Benefit from what we offer as an award-winning employer: in addition to a very positive working atmosphere, there are many offers such as staff outings, Christmas parties, Hansefit, health promotion, staff appraisal meetings and much more. And if you would like to stay with us after your training – like almost all of our "newly qualified" nurses – we look forward to welcoming you as a new registered nurse!
Internship
An internship before the start of training is possible, but is not a requirement for admission. If you are interested in an internship, please feel free to contact us.
Internship during your studies
Are you studying nursing education / vocational education for health professions and looking for an internship placement? For this, we cooperate with the Katholische Hochschule Freiburg and other universities – get in touch, we will be glad to help!
Do you have any further questions?
...that you have not found an answer to here? Call us or send us an e-mail – we will be happy to answer you!
Bachelor's degree programme in Applied Nursing Science
We are one of the first cooperation partners of the Katholische Hochschule Freiburg for the bachelor’s degree programme APPLIED NURSING SCIENCE. This combines training at our school with university studies. You can complete both at the same time or one after the other. We will be happy to tell you more about this way of learning and studying nursing!
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