Palliative Care

Palliative care is a holistic care concept for patients who are in the advanced stages of an incurable illness. The aim is to improve and maintain the quality of life of these people and their families for as long as possible. According to the WHO, this is achieved by preventing and alleviating suffering through early detection, careful assessment and treatment of pain and other physical, psychosocial and spiritual problems.

For caregivers, this requires not only sound specialist knowledge, but also patient-oriented, creative and symptom-oriented care as well as an individual approach to dying, death and grief.

In this course, nurses are introduced to the concept of palliative care so that they can deal professionally with the complex problems of seriously ill and dying people and their relatives in their nursing practice.

The course meets the legal requirements of outpatient and inpatient hospice work and palliative medicine (§§ 39a I S.4, II S.6, 132d in conjunction with § 37b SGB V) and is certified by the German Society for Palliative Medicine (DGP).

• Learning the basics and areas of application of palliative medicine, palliative care and hospice work
• Theory and practical knowledge of palliative pain and symptom therapy
• Competence in holistic care
• Reflection on one's own attitude to dying, death and grief
• Training in communication and perception with seriously ill people
• Self-care and sensitization of one's own perception in order to cope with difficult situations more calmly
• Strengthening teamwork skills
• Social law aspects in a palliative context
• Case supervision in groups: individual situations are reflected upon in order to strengthen the ability to act in everyday professional life.
• Intensive work on a self-chosen topic from the field of palliative care and presentation of the project work as part of a colloquium at the end of the course
• Personal development

• Three-year training with a state examination in health and nursing care

  or with a state examination in geriatric nursing

• At least two years of professional experience in nursing care
• In individual cases, nursing and geriatric care assistants can also be admitted to the course.

Please send us a CV and proof of professional qualification in a nursing profession.

Block 1: Mon 03.02. - Fri 07.02.25
Block 2: Mon 02.06. - Fri 06.06.25
Block 3: Mon 08.09. - Fri 12.09.25
Block 4: Mon 24.11. - Fri 28.11.25

Case discussions on Wednesdays from 17.00 - 19.30 or Saturdays from 9.00 - 12.30.
05.03.25, 09.04.25, 07.05.25, 07.06.25, 09.07.25, 24.09.25, 22.10.25
Individual cases are discussed intensively with the course leaders in small groups. Participation in four of the seven case discussions is mandatory.