Geriatric Nursing
Course content
Due to the aging of our population an important part of care will have to be provided for the elderly. An adequate programme is therefore a real necessity. Nurses must not only rely on experience when caring for elderly people. A theoretical and evidence based approach is a must.
Work placement
Work placements are an important part of the curriculum. Overall half of the curriculum is work placement. The first year there will be about 1/3 of work placements. The second year, it will be 1/2 and in the third year, it will be up to 2/3. During the work placement, the students are tutored by lecturers from the department and also by mentors from the wards and health care institutions.
A lot of attention is paid to the preparation, introduction, and evaluation of the work placements. The average amount of hours per week is 34.
In the first year, students don’t have work placements during the weekends. In the second and third year four weekends are part of the work placements. In the third year students have four nights of work placements.
During Christmas, Easter and summer holidays there are no work placements. The work placements are tutored either as bedside tutoring, tutoring of the student’s learning process or supervision.
Job opportunities
A nursing bachelor means that you are polyvalent and that you can apply for a job in almost every health caring sector all over Europe: hospitals, geriatric nursing, revalidation, mental healthcare, healthcare at home, disability healthcare, but also in an independent practice, company life and schooling.
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