Intensive and Emergency Care (in Dutch only)

The advanced bachelor in Intensive and Emergency Care is a specialisation course comprising 60 study points. You can complete it in one year or spread it over a maximum of four years.
The programme is geared towards the sector dealing with critically ill patients or people in urgent need of health care. It provides a solid theoretical foundation. And you can gain experience in intensive and emergency care departments. You learn to provide care and treatment in a structure, ethical and scientifically sound way.

Is this programme right for you?

Do you have a bachelor degree in Nursing or Midwifery and are you interested in the acute health care sector? Are you interested in the combination of nursing and technical and electronic support for monitoring, treatment and care? Then this programme's for you.
With this diploma, you obtain a special professional title as a nurse. You become a nurse specialising in intensive and emergency care as recognised by the federal public service Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment.

What will you learn?

The programme covers a wide range of topics relating to clinical nursing and biomedical sciences. This allows you to recognise and treat or solve patients' life-threatening or urgent problems quickly and effectively. You also learn how to provide psychosocial support in specific situations and how to take an ethical approach. We cover aspects of policy in the theoretical package. During work placements, you learn to adapt to the different areas of emergency and intensive care, including care for critically ill children.

Where can you work?

You'll find a warm welcome in all intensive care departments, recovery rooms and emergency care departments. In these environments, half the members of staff must have the special professional title in intensive and emergency care. But the advanced bachelor offers added value in every department of the hospital.
You can work as a nurse for the fire service. This requires some additional tests and training.
Finally, you can study for a master's degree in Nursing Sciences, and will receive exemptions if you have completed the advanced bachelor's programme.

Study programme

The study programme comprises two basic modules: a module in emergency care and a module specifically geared towards children and the dissertation. The biomedical sciences, clinical nursing and work placements focus on life-threatening conditions: breathing, circulation, neurological, metabolic and immunological problems. In emergency care, you receive training in specific areas. This teaches you to act in an effective and structured way in urgent situations and pre-hospital care.

You can view the study programme for this course here.

Exemptions

Candidates with a master's degree in Nursing are exempted from the lessons dealing with scientific research, the dissertation and the policy and ethics lessons. Candidates who have been employed for several years in intensive and/or emergency care may receive exemptions on the basis of an EVC procedure (accreditation of prior experiential learning).

Click here for more info on exemptions and short-track programmes at Leuven University College.

Enrolment

The cost of this programme for candidates following the 1-year course is € 540, excluding books and course notes. 

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