Advanced Nursing Practice, Bachelor of Science

Admission requirements

For admission to the Bachelor’s degree programme Advanced Nursing Practice, the following admission requirements apply:

• General university entrance qualification (Abitur) or university of applied sciences entrance qualification or subject-specific or equivalent university entrance qualification according to § 37 HmbHG or
• special access for working professionals according to § 38 HmbHG via an entrance examination in accordance with the entrance examination regulations of the university of applied sciences and an interview and
• completed vocational training as a health and nursing specialist or paediatric nursing specialist and elderly care nurse and
• at least two years of professional experience before admission to the bachelor’s examination
• possibility of further study according to § 39 HmbHG

Studies at the MSH Medical School Hamburg are free from numerus clausus (NC). Performance, talent, motivation and discipline count more than the grade average on the certificate. However, for admission to the Bachelor’s degree programme Advanced Nursing Practice, you must have, in addition to the university entrance qualification, completed vocational training in the nursing sector and two years of professional experience.

Details

To meet the steadily increasing challenges of health professions, MSH offers the Bachelor's degree programme Advanced Nursing Practice. Advanced Nursing Practice describes the working methods of university-educated and practically experienced nursing professionals. The aim of the Bachelor's degree programme at the Faculty of Health Sciences (University of Applied Sciences) at MSH is to train students to become versatile specialists. Therefore, you will be trained not only in the areas of intensive care medicine and intensive nursing, anaesthesiology and anaesthesia nursing, as well as emergency medicine and emergency management. Fundamentals of economics and business administration as well as management knowledge are also taught. In addition, you will expand your practical nursing skills and get to know new research approaches.  

MSH places great value on small working groups. There, students learn to think critically and reflectively, independently and creatively, as well as to solve problems. Your methodical and analytical skills will benefit you in your professional everyday life. To prepare students for their jobs in interdisciplinary teams, they partly learn together with fellow students from the Bachelor's degree programmes Medical Controlling and Management as well as Rescue Management. Through these joint modules, you gain an insight into the work and tasks of the respective professional groups and thus strengthen team skills and experience in interdisciplinary collaboration.

The Bachelor's degree programme is nationally recognised and professionally accredited.