These are the admission requirements for the Nursing Bachelor's degree

You can enroll in the Nursing distance learning programme at IU under the following conditions:

• You have a high school diploma (general higher education entrance qualification), a technical college entrance qualification (technical college entrance qualification), or a subject-specific higher education entrance qualification.
• You have successfully completed training as a geriatric nurse or geriatric nurse, as a childcare worker or childcare worker, or as a healthcare and nursing assistant or healthcare and nursing assistant, or as a nursing specialist or nursing specialist.

Access without a high school diploma is possible if you have worked in the training occupation for at least 3 years after your vocational training. You will start with a trial study first before we enroll you regularly. With the trial study, you do not lose any time because with your regular enrollment, we will credit you for all modules you completed in the trial study.

Study Contents & Modules: This is the Study Schedule in the Nursing Bachelor's Degree

As we fully recognize the content of your nursing education, you save a total of 20 modules from the regular course of study. In full-time studies, you save the first 3 semesters.

Therefore, exclusively relevant for you are the modules of semesters 4, 5, 6, which you can find in the following full-time study plan:

• 1-3 Semester (recognized for you): Health, Health Promotion, Prevention, Clinical Fundamentals 1, Practice Module 1, Practice Module 2, Nursing Interventions 1, Clinical Fundamentals 2, Practice Module 3, Practice Module 4, Clinical Fundamentals 3, Practice Module 5, Practice Module 6, Nursing Interventions 2, Care in Acute Care, Care in Long-Term Care, Clinical Fundamentals 4, Practice Module 7, Nursing Interventions 3, Clinical Fundamentals 5
• 4th Semester: Introduction to Scientific Work, Nursing as a Profession, Introduction to Nursing Management, Nursing Law, Quality Management in Nursing, Interaction and Communication in Organizations
• 5th Semester: Conditions of the Health Market, Sociology, Psychology, Seminar: Nursing Process, Elements of Highly Complex Nursing, Fields of Activity in Highly Complex Nursing
• 6th Semester: Elective Subject A, Elective Subject B, Bachelor's Thesis

What's special about studying at IU: the many possibilities to delve into interesting elective modules during your studies. In the Nursing Bachelor's, you choose a total of 2 specialization modules:

Your first specialization module can be chosen from these topics: Billing and Financing Systems, Controlling and Conflicts, Pedagogy and General Didactics, Gerontology and Gerontosociology, Evidence-Based Practice.

Your second specialization module can be chosen from these topics: Leadership and Controlling in Nursing, Lifelong Learning, Gerontopsychiatry and Psychology, Research Methods, General Studies, Sign Language.

Study Concept: How the Part-Time Nursing Studies at IU Work

You can adapt the online nursing study at the IU International University to your life and daily routine as it suits you best. For example, you can choose one of 3 study models: In the full-time study, you need a total of 3 semesters, i.e., 18 months, to complete your bachelor's degree. In part-time study I, you study for 4 semesters until completion. Or you opt for part-time study II and take 6 semesters to complete your bachelor's.

With each module enrollment at IU, you receive study materials as printed study booklets. All materials are also available digitally. The IU Interactive Books are innovative study scripts enriched with video clips and quiz questions at the end of a lesson. Depending on the module, study materials are complemented by podcasts, live tutorials, and video content in the form of shortcasts. You can access the IU Interactive Books via the convenient IU Learn App.

In many modules, virtual lectures are also offered, allowing you to interactively engage with your peers and instructors.

Convenient and flexible: the option to take module exams in the form of online exams. You can take an online exam 7 days a week, 24 hours a day whenever you feel best prepared for the exam, for example, in construction theory. Additionally, we operate about 40 exam centers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland where you can also take your exams in a traditional on-site setting.