Master’s Program (CE)
Advanced Nursing Counseling
part-time³
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Academic Expert in Gerontological Health Care and Nursing
Tuition fee
once payment € 6.3001
+ ÖH contribution + costs for optional additional services, if applicable2 / semester
Currently no application possible
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1 You can find an alternative model for semester payments under ‘Costs’.
2 The costs depend on the additional services selected from the University of Applied Sciences Campus Vienna, such as work clothing, licenses, tutorials, or excursions.
You are already working in the higher service for health care and nursing and would like to deepen your skills in geriatric and gerontopsychiatric care. Your goal is to take on a key role in geriatric care and use your expertise to help optimize the quality of treatment and care. In addition, your focus is on the evidence-based further development of nursing standards and the promotion of health prevention and promotion in a gerontological context. You are seeking to deepen your research skills in the areas of epidemiological monitoring, data-based care analyses, and scientifically sound geriatric health care and nursing.
For admission, you need
If you submit a diploma, you must also have proof of
A defined level of professional experience is not required. Both first-time entrants and those switching in health care and nursing can apply.
The required language level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is at least
Applicants may require legalization of documents from countries other than Austria in order for them to have the evidential value of domestic public documents. Information on the required legalizations can be found here in PDF format.
For documents that are neither in German nor English, a translation by a sworn and court-certified interpreter is required. Your original documents should have all the necessary legalization stamps before translation so that the stamps are also translated. The translation must be firmly attached to the original document or a legalized copy.
As part of your online application, upload scans of your original documents including all required legalization stamps. For documents not issued in German or English, scans of the corresponding translations must also be uploaded. The head of the study program decides on the equivalence of international (higher) education qualifications. Therefore, your documents can only be checked as part of the ongoing application process.
Your path to studying at Hochschule Campus Wien (HCW) begins with your registration on our application platform. In your online account, you can start your application directly or activate a reminder if the application phase has not yet started.
Proof of identity
Change of name - proof
Proof of fulfillment of the relevant admission requirement
bachelor's degree in Health Care and Nursing
or
Proof of language skills German B2
For admission, German language skills of at least level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) must be provided.
The following applies as proof:
Proof of a higher language level is also valid.
Your application is valid once you have completely uploaded the required documents. If you do not have all the documents at the time of your online application, please submit them immediately upon receipt by email to the administration of your study program (see section “Contact”).
After completing your online application, you will receive an email confirmation with information on the next steps.
Do you still have questions about the study program?
Make an appointment with our administration office phcn@hcw.ac.at and you will receive a personal consultation via Zoom with Head of the Academic Course.
The course fee is based on actual costs. To pay it, you can choose between two options, each with different payment arrangements. In addition to the course fee, you must pay the ÖH contribution each semester.
This model assumes that you will complete and pay for the entire program. The cost of € 6.300 is due in full at the start of the program and is non-refundable in the event of early termination of the program, unless HCW is at fault.
One-time payment: € 6.300
(due approximately four weeks before the start of the first semester)
This option allows you to pay the course fee in two installments of € 3.300 each. If you withdraw from the program early, you must still pay the full course fee. Installments already paid will not be refunded.
Semester installment: € 3.300
(due approximately four weeks before the start of each semester)
Total amount: € 6.600
You can apply for financial support for Academic Expert Programs, Master’s programs, as well as for courses and seminars.
Information on funding bodies can be found under Funding and Scholarships
Hochschule Campus Wien (HCW) is now the largest university of applied sciences for nursing and health sciences in Austria. We were the first university of applied sciences in Austria to launch the bachelor's degree program Health Care and Nursing more than 15 years ago, and we have continuously built up a large network in the health sector. Our students benefit from this network and from our many years of teaching expertise. Our cooperation partners also include the University of Vienna, with which we collaborate as part of a teaching network.
Important educational partners include the Vienna Healthcare Group, the Vinzenz Group, and the Barmherzige Brüder, with whom we jointly offer the bachelor's degree program Health Care and Nursing.
With our master's programs (continuing education) Advanced Nursing Counseling, Advanced Nursing Education, and Advanced Nursing Practice (focus on nursing management) we cover a broad spectrum of advanced qualifications for the higher service for health care and nursing.
In addition to teaching, we are actively involved in research and development. R&D projects at the Center for Applied Nursing Research offer you the opportunity to learn about application-oriented research in practice.
The program in continuing education is designed so that you can continue to work while studying. This allows you to immediately transfer what you have learned to your field of practice.
These modules integrate theoretical and practical learning methods and prepare you for a key role in geriatric health care and nursing.
As a graduate of this program, you will have access to a wide range of professional fields and career opportunities, including on a global level. As an expert in gerontological health care and nursing, you will actively work to improve health care for older people and ensure continuous and coordinated care by using your expertise to identify the needs and requirements of older people and integrate them into their care and support.
The know-how you acquire during your training will enable you to perform tasks such as:
As a graduate, you will use your expertise to help build and continuously develop this new professional field.
Graduates work as employees in mobile, non-inpatient, semi-inpatient, and in-patient health care and nursing with a focus on geriatric psychiatry and/or in freelance positions.
In addition, in positions as:
We closely cooperate with the Vienna Healthcare Group, the Vinzentinum Vienna, the Barmherzige Brüder Vienna, the University of Vienna, the Professional Association and other health care institutions. Our cooperations ensure that you have points of contact for your career or your participation in research and development activities. You will find many of our cooperations in the Campusnetzwerk. A look at them is always worthwhile and may lead you to a new job or to an interesting event of our cooperation partners!
Head of Program Primary Health Care Nursing
+43 1 606 68 77-4081
marius.contor@hcw.ac.at
Favoritenstraße 222, F.1.29
1100 Wien
gerguk@hcw.ac.at