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Bachelor in Pedagogics of Nursing at Fachhochschule Ravensburg Weingarten

The Social Work, Health and Nursing Faculty trains teachers in nursing, obstetrics and geriatric and paediatric nursing with the bachelor’s in Pedagogics of Nursing and provides academic training on the path to becoming a nursing teacher. With this bachelor’s course, the University is providing a specific academic offer in nursing teacher training.

The educational goal of the course is to qualify nurses systematically for vocational teaching and teaching-relevant nursing tasks. A modern understanding of training and independent training goals are taken into account, along with integrative practical relevance (lectures and nursing practicals) of the profession in vocational training.

Therefore, the course qualifies for two fields of nursing activity. On the one hand for a teaching role in training and further training in the nursing profession and, on the other, for application-oriented nursing science. To strengthen the action orientation and to guarantee the highest possible practical relevance, on the teaching side the course incorporates an accompanied practical phase over 20 weeks in a later working field and practicals in the teaching-learning lab. On the nursing science side, a project is undertaken with healthcare institutions from the Lake Constance and Upper Swabia region. In addition to the pedagogical-didactical, educational and professional teaching, there is a particular focus with the main subjects on a subject-oriented consideration of nursing and teaching. Accordingly, there are detailed seminars to promote personal and social competence (e.g. conversation, rhetoric, mediation).

30 students a year are enrolled in the winter semester. The full-time Pedagogics of Nursing course lasts seven semesters, including a practical semester and concludes with the internationally recognized Bachelor of Arts (B.A.). The course admission requirements are a certificate of eligibility for university entrance (e.g. University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg Weingarten Bachelor’s in Pedagogics of Nursing The Social Work, Health and Nursing Faculty trains teachers in nursing, obstetrics and geriatric and paediatric nursing with the bachelor’s in Pedagogics of Nursing and provides academic training on the path to becoming a nursing teacher. With this bachelor’s course, the University is providing a specific academic offer in nursing teacher training. The educational goal of the course is to qualify nurses systematically for vocational teaching and teaching-relevaiversity entrance examination) and professional training in nursing, paediatric or geriatric nursing, or as a midwife.

Core modules:
Public Health and Health Promotion
Social Epidemiology
Partnership working and management
Public Health Practice

Optional modules include: (dependent on area of practice)
Mental Health Promotion
Mental Health in Primary Care
Social Research: Principles and Practice
Evaluating Research and Evidence Based Practice
Community Development
Issues in Contemporary Health Policy
Family Support and Child protection
Health & Safety at Work
Health in the City

Assessment

You will be assessed via essays, written examination and reports.

Career opportunities

On successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma - which carries professional body recognition - students can ‘top up’ their qualification to an MSc in Public Health. This offers improved career opportunities within professional practice.

Aims of the course
The Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing will be delivered in line with the standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses [SCPHN], NMC 2004, for health visiting, school nursing and occupational health nursing. The course will address the new competencies as they relate to public health. Key issues will address contemporary public health challenges of the 21st century, including the reduction of health inequalities, partnership and mutual responsibility, economic and social factors.
Entry requirements
You must be a registered nurse with a live NMC registration on the appropriate part/s of the NMC register for your chosen branch, for example, health visiting. Normally two years post-registration experience is required and a good Honours degree in a relevant subject. You will require an appropriate clinical placement and a suitably qualified mentor to undertake this course. There are information sessions throughout the year for candidates to learn more about the course.
Course structure

Core modules:
Public Health and Health Promotion
Social Epidemiology
Partnership working and management
Public Health Practice

Optional modules include: (dependent on area of practice)
Mental Health Promotion
Mental Health in Primary Care
Social Research: Principles and Practice
Evaluating Research and Evidence Based Practice
Community Development
Issues in Contemporary Health Policy
Family Support and Child protection
Health & Safety at Work
Health in the City
Assessment

You will be assessed via essays, written examination and reports.
Career opportunities

On successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma - which carries professional body recognition - students can ‘top up’ their qualification to an MSc in Public Health. This offers improved career opportunities within professional practice.

The Faculty of Social Work, Health and Nursing was part of the independent Esslingen University of Social Sciences until 30.9.2006. On 1.10.2006 the Esslingen University of Social Sciences and the Esslingen University of Engineering were merged.

The former Esslingen University of Social Sciences, and thus the faculty, has its roots in Stuttgart. In 1917, the Social Women’s School of the Swabian Women’s Union was founded in Stuttgart on the basis of a trust instituted by Queen Charlotte of Württemberg. A second institution supported by this trust was the Seminar for Female Youth Leaders, founded in 1930. After their transformation into higher vocational schools in the 1960s, both institutions merged to form the University of Social Sciences in 1972. For many decades, the University, in addition to the Mannheim University for Social Sciences and the Alice Salomon University in Berlin, was one of the three independent, state-run universities with a specific focus on social and health sciences. At Esslingen University as well, the faculty sees its particular responsibility in playing an exemplary role in representing the field of social care and health care as a university subject in Baden-Württemberg. Within the faculties it has an exceptional position, since, according to the founding law of Esslingen University, a vice president has to be appointed from amongst the professors for a certain transitional period.

Study Programmes
By the 1st September 2004 the former Esslingen University of Social Sciences had adapted its whole course programme in accordance with the Bologna Declaration of the European Ministers of Education to conform to the so-called two-level system offering the “Bachelor” and “Master” degrees. It offers the following study programmes:

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Social Work (accredited until 31st March 2011)

2011) - Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Nursing / Nursing Management (accredited until 31st March 2011)
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Nursing Education (accredited until 31st March 2011)

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Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Childhood Education (accredited until 30 th September 2012)
Master of Arts (M.A.) Social Work (accredited until 31st March 2011)
Master of Arts (M.A.) Nursing Sciences (accredited until 31st March 2011).