Nursing

Nursing? Isn't that just washing patients, giving them food and injections, and applying some bandages? No! Fortunately that went out a long time ago. The nurse of 2010 has a fascinating, multifaceted job with lots of responsibility. As a nurse, you're an enterprising manager of complex patient care. You work with your head, heart and hands in a team comprising a variety of disciplines.

The Nursing bachelor programme is profession-oriented and scientific, and combines theoretical and clinical education. The theoretical part includes, nursing, biomedical and social scientific programme elements. The clinical education teaches you practical nursing and communicative skills, and also includes work placements. This allows you to gain the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes. So that you can give high-quality, integral care to patients.

During the course, you can set your own areas of emphasis at various points of your learning process. You can choose from various work placements. And even go on work placements abroad or exchanges with other programmes, and deepen your knowledge via one of the five study options.

• Our society is ageing, so care for the elderly is becoming more and more important. Do you want to help improve the quality of life of elderly people who need care, allowing them to maintain their sense of self-worth and their independence? Then you'll certainly find something to suit you in the option in Geriatrics.
• In paediatrics, the child and his or her environment are the central focus. If you want to provide complex and specialist care to children of all ages, in addition to basic care, then Paediatrics may be for you.
• Do you want to learn to support patients with psychological problems in a professional way, until they can once again take responsibility for themselves? Then you should choose the option in Psychiatric Nursing.
• Do you want to help people to once again find a meaningful place in society, and support them so that they can stay healthy and comfortable? Or would you prefer to work in the preventive health sector? Then the option in Social Nursing should be right up your street.
• Or would you prefer to provide care to patients undergoing complex surgery, critically ill patients or transplant patients? Then, in the option in Hospital Nursing, you can choose the clinical option path. If you want to place more emphasis on the provision of care in the operating theatre or in a more high-tech medical environment, then the medical technology option path may be the right choice for you.