Intensive Care

Job description

Intensive care comprises the observation, support, monitoring and care of seriously-ill patients, as well as involvement in anaesthesia and kidney replacement therapy. The focus of intensive care is primarily on the care and/or intensive long-term care, as well as the mobilisation of seriously-ill people and patients with respiratory insufficiency. While doing so the intensive care personnel are also involved in reanimation- and shock therapy, bronchial hygiene and intubation as well as in anaesthesia and acute dialysis.

How do you become an intensive care nurse?

Anyone wanting to specialise in intensive care after completing a bachelor's degree or diploma in healthcare and nursing can visit the higher education course (job-enabling) in intensive care at the University of Applied Sciences for Health Professions Upper Austria at the Med Campus V. Linz. The two-semester programme finishes with the title “Academic Expert in Intensive Care.” The course focuses on special care in different intensive care areas, special medical basics, and related sciences (e.g., medicine, psychology, sociology). Internships enable an optimal transfer of theory into practice.