Know-how about counseling concepts and techniques create an important foundation for successful and proactive health care and nursing. The certificate Master program for further education in Advanced Nursing Counseling will qualify you to provide health and nursing counseling with a focus on preventive, solution and resource oriented counseling for patients, clients and families. This certificate Master program focuses on advanced clinical nursing skills combined with evidence-based care, nursing science and research.
Program in accordance with § 64 GuKG
Master of Science (Continuing Education) MSc (CE)
Tuition fee
once payment € 13.127,-1
+ ÖH premium / semester
Application winter semester 2025/26
01. October 2024 - 15. September 2025
1 Alternative model for installments can be found under "Costs". Details on tuition fees can be found in the general fee regulations.
You have a professional picture of health care and nursing that incorporates proven methods as well as the development towards health promotion and counseling. For this reason, you want to combine and round out your previous nursing experience with science and research. You see evidence-based care as the impetus to improve nursing. Your personal strength lies in communication and negotiation skills. However, you are aware that this alone is not enough. You need special techniques and concepts for professional counseling. Overall, you show strong initiative and have the ambition to help establish an emerging professional field and to further develop structures in health care facilities that both make possible and promote counseling.
The relevant admission requirement according to §9 para. 7 FHG is
and at least two years of professional experience in healthcare and nursing (practical relevance).
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 FH Campus Wien 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.
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 to the secretary's office by email as soon as you receive them.
After completing your online application, you will receive an email confirmation with information on the next steps.
The admission procedure consists of an admission interview, in which we would like to learn more about your motives, skills and knowledge.
Do you still have questions about the program?
Make an appointment with our office at anp@fh-campuswien.ac.at and arrange a personal consultation with programme director Sabine Schweiger via Zoom.
The program managers also provide information and advice in regular (online) info sessions and at live events.
Link for all online sessions via Zoom:https://fh-campuswien.zoom.us/j/96571849262 (Meeting-ID: 965 7184 9262)
If you have any questions regarding the online info sessions, please contact anp@fh-campuswien.ac.at
The tuition fee is determined according to the actual costs. In addition to the tuition fee, you will also have to pay the ÖH student union fee each semester. There is a 10 % discount on payment options A, B and C for graduates of FH Campus Wien Health Care and Nursing. You can choose between three models with different payment options:
Variant A assumes that you will complete and pay for the entire program. In this model, you will pay the entire fee prior to the start of the program in a single payment of € 13.127,-.
Single payment: € 13.127,-
(Due approximately four weeks before the start of the first semester.)
This model offers you the possibility to pay the tuition fee in four installments of € 3.445,75. If you decide to leave the program early, you will still have to pay the entire fee.
Installment per semester: € 3.445,75
(Each due approximately four weeks before the semester begins.)
Total amount: € 13.783,-
This model takes into account the possibility of leaving the program after each semester and is ideal for those who want to keep the option open to leave the program early.
First, second, third semester: each € 4.226,-
Fourth semester: € 2.415,20
(Each due approximately four weeks before the semester begins.)
Total amount: € 15.095,-
Financial aid is available for academic courses, master courses and for courses and seminars.
You can find information about funding agencies under grants and scholarships.
FH Campus Wien is now the largest university of applied sciences for health in Austria. Since being the first university of applied arts in Austria to establish a bachelor's degree program in nursing already in 2008, we now possess extensive expertise and a large network of partners. This includes the University of Vienna, with whom we have a teaching network. Important partners from the industry include the Vienna Healthcare Group, with whom we work closely to organize our extensive internships for the bachelor's degree program, and the Vinzenz Group. In addition to teaching, we are also involved in research and development. R&D projects in the field of health care and nursing offer you the opportunity to participate in application-oriented practical research and to make valuable contacts for your future career. Based on evaluation studies, we further develop the contents of the program or examine issues such as what do "simulation patients" offer as a third place of learning. There is great potential in multi-site research projects. Practical relevance is also guaranteed at our Campus Lecture evenings, which are open to all and feature contributions from prominent experts.
The certificate Master program in Advanced Nursing Counseling combines the following three core areas:
Times
One or two times per month in blocks on Thursday afternoons or all day Friday and Saturday
Academic year schedule AN-27 (PDF 112 KB, content only available in German)
Number of teaching weeks
14 per semester
Language of instruction
German
As a graduate of this program, a wide range of occupational fields and career opportunities are open to you. Find out here where your path can take you.
You have already gained experience in upper grade health care and nursing. With this Certificate Master program for further education you can help shape this emerging professional field as a health and nursing counselor and support evidence-based nursing. You are an expert when it comes to providing counseling in public and private health care facilities. You will be involved in the areas of inpatient, day-patient and out-patient care. You will be responsible for discharge management in hospitals, nursing facilities or clinics. At nursing support or counseling centers you will be involved in case and care management. Your counseling will also take the social environment into account. You will not only counsel patients and their families, but also entire organizations and nursing teams. You will take on case counseling, process or project consulting and coaching. You will not only be active face to face, but also online. In addition, you will be responsible for knowledge management. You will also apply your knowledge in research projects at universities and colleges.
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 Programs Advanced Nursing Counseling, Advanced Nursing Education, Advanced Nursing Practice, Nursing Education; Academic Staff
+43 1 606 68 77-4040
sabine.schweiger@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Application management
Favoritenstraße 222, F.1.16
1100 Vienna
+43 1 606 68 77-4040
+43 1 606 68 77-4009
anp@fh-campuswien.ac.at
Office hours
Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 8.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m.
Tuesday: 8.00 a.m. to 3.30 p.m.
Thursday: 8.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m.
Deputy Head of Programs Advanced Nursing Counseling, Advanced Nursing Education, Advanced Nursing Practice, Nursing Education
theresa.amon@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-4963
Head of Program Division 4 Health Care and Nursing
hans_peter.koellner@fh-campuswien.ac.at
+43 1 606 68 77-4015
