Hans Peter Köllner, BSc MSc
Head of Academic Course Healthcare and Nursing, Practice Mentoring, Primary Health Care Nursing, Public Health
+43 1 606 68 77-4081
hans_peter.koellner@fh-campuswien.ac.at
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A paradigm shift has already taken place in the nursing and health sciences in recent years. In addition to the disease orientation, the focus is also on maintaining and shaping health. The two poles “health” and “illness” are already the focus in the basic training for nursing and health sciences. The academic course offers people with professional experience in this area focused training for new professional fields in public health. By completing the course, you will be qualified take on an independent role in primary, secondary and tertiary prevention and health promotion. The potential for professional development emerges from the demographic development of the population, which brings with it an increasing need for measures for the long-term maintenance and improvement of health and quality of life.
Academic Expert in Public Health
tuition fee
once payment € 5.600,-1
+ ÖH premium/semester
Application
Application is continuously possible
22
1 Alternative modell in semester installments € 2.940,-/semester
You already work in the practical field of health care and nursing or in other health professions such as midwifery and would like to deepen and expand your expertise. Health promotion and prevention are very important to you and you want to work in this area in a target group-oriented manner. You would like to provide health counseling and support families, communities, schools or companies in expanding their health skills and improving their quality of life. You are interested in further developing your professional field and opening up new fields of application with your newly acquired skills.
You will be learning in real-life situations right from the start: either with our cooperation partners or in our well-equipped functional rooms.
You will gain experience and learn from others in interdisciplinary research projects.
Continue your basic education with unique continuing education opportunities for new career fields.
Do you still have questions about the study program?
Make an appointment with our secretary's office pflege@fh-campuswien.ac.at and you will receive a personal consultation via Zoom with Head of the Academic Course Hans Peter Köllner.
Before the start of the first semester, you have the opportunity to catch up on knowledge from the areas of nursing science and research as part of a preparatory course in order to fulfill the admission requirements for the degree program or to simply refresh your knowledge. The next dates are in June 2022.
Information for applicants with non-Austrian (school) certificates (PDF 145 KB)
Please note:
It is not possible to save incomplete online applications. You must complete your application in one session. Your application will be valid as soon as you upload all of the required documents and certificates. In the event that some documents (e.g. references) are not available at the time you apply, you may submit these later via email, mail or in person by no later than the start of the degree program.
The occupational field of public health is still in its infancy in Austria. Social skills as well as educational and conceptual skills are just as much in demand in this area as health care and nursing science know-how. The course covers all the necessary requirements to actively help shape and develop the new professions.
As a public health expert, you will independently promote the health literacy of individuals, families, communities and the general population through tailor-made training and education programs, following a targeted survey of needs and resources.
The know-how acquired during your training will enable you to:
In addition, you will acquire knowledge of epidemiological monitoring and data analysis in the context of health research, health statistics and epidemiology. These skills are essential building blocks in the development of health promotion and prevention programs in companies and communities. This area of activity focuses on:
Lector: Mag. Martin Salvenmoser
- Central terms of counselling, training and guidance
- Legal basis of counselling according to GuKG
- Understanding and roles of counselling in health care and nursing
- Counselling science: Selected theories and models of counselling (person-centred counselling, systemic counselling)
- Selected counselling approaches and methods (person-centred, systemic, solution-oriented, resource-oriented, etc.)
- Selected nursing-relevant counselling methods
- Counselling processes
- Counselling settings with different target groups and settings
- Conversational techniques in counselling - counselling communication and relationship building
- Self-reflection and metacommunication in counselling
- Use of educational materials (diabetes, stoma, injections)
Final exam
Final written or oral examination at the end of the course
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag. Martin Salvenmoser
- Counselling Level I: Individual (collegial counselling, conflict counselling, coaching)
- Consulting level II: Group (development phases, team processes, role positions, moderation)
- Consulting level III: Organization (organizational development and opportunity management, organizational structures, organizational cultures, organizational learning)
Final exam
Final written or oral examination at the end of the course
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: MPH Stefan Doubek
- Definition of health promotion and prevention in adolescence, incl. objectives
- School health care from the 5th grade; tasks and (international) examples from practice
- Influence of health promotion practiced in adolescence on the health care system
- Critical discourse of health promotion and prevention in adolescence on health systems and health policy
Module exam
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag.a Astrid Sobczak
- Definition of health - disease - chronic disease
- Subjective theories of health and illness
- Significance of chronic illness for society and for the health care system
- Changes in norms and acceptance in the context of chronic illness
- Importance of health literacy and participatory decision making as an aspect of public health and people with chronic disease.
- Chronic Disease Self- Management Program
- Chronic disease and health literacy
- Health literacy in health care facilities and hospitals and healthcare organizations at the community level.
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Elisabeth Kupka-Klepsch, MSc
- Definition of health promotion and prevention in childhood, incl. objectives
- School health care in kindergarten and primary school; tasks and (international) examples from practice;
- Influence of health promotion practiced in childhood on the health care system
- Critical discourse of the interaction of health promotion and prevention on health systems and health policy
Module exam
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Dr.rer.soc.oec. Mag.(FH) Maria Schulze
- Health literacy - Definition of terms
- Areas of health literacy
- Health literacy of the Austrian population
- Health as a social challenge
- The promotion of health literacy among different target groups - measures and fields of action
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Dr.rer.soc.oec. Mag.(FH) Maria Schulze
- Different health care systems worldwide (country examples: Switzerland, Singapore, USA, Austria, England...) - including their financing.
- Comparative analysis of the individual health care systems including their advantages and disadvantages from the point of view of the states and the beneficiaries.
- Health policy in the EU and in an international context
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag.a Martina Rosenberger
- Lifestyle - Definition of terms
- Determinants of health
- Influence of lifestyles on health behaviour and health
- Determinants of health at the individual level, social and community level, level of living and working conditions, and overall policy level
- Health behaviour and lifestyles in different target groups
- Social inequality and health
- Theories and models of health behaviour - e.g. Health Belief Model
- Targeted health promotion measures for the discussed target groups/settings
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: FH-Prof.in Mag.a Dr.in Simone Grandy
- Basics of qualitative research
- Planning and procedure of the qualitative research process
- Overview of qualitative research methods (focus group, narrative interview, episodic interview, ero-epic interview, observation -auto-ethnographic writing)
- Overview of selected qualitative evaluation methods (grounded theory, content analysis, thematic analysis)
- Introduction to MAXQDA: importing transcripts, coding texts, outputting codes and importing them into word processing programs, outputting code findings
- Presentation of results in qualitative research
Continuous assessment
Immanent performance review
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Wolfgang Korbel-Schindler, BScN, MSc
- Basic concepts of empirical social research
- Basic rules of questionnaire construction
- Basics of quantitative survey methods
- Research designs
- Research design
- Samples
Module exam
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Anna Burton, BSc, MSc
Fundamentals of descriptive statistics:
- Statistical characteristics and measures of dispersion.
- Frequency tables, cross tabulations
Basics of inferential statistics:
- Significance
- Correlations
- Group comparison tests (t-test, U-test, ANOVA etc.)
- Statistical data analysis with SPSS
Module exam
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag. Helmut Beichler
- Criteria of scientific work
- Correct citation (focus: requirement at the Department of Applied Nursing Science)
- Planning of a scientific paper - the exposé
- Topic identification & concretization
- Literature research and procurement (online research in theory and practice)
- Material selection, material evaluation
- Presentation of results
- Structure of a scientific publication (focus: scientific essays)
Continuous assessment
Immanent performance review
Mainly activating methods
German
- Health, illness, quality of life and well-being in old age
- Aims, tasks and guiding principles of community health promotion and prevention among older people
- Areas of prevention for older people
- Actors in community health promotion for older people
- Models of health promotion and prevention (e.g. community readiness model) and their applicability to problems and needs of older people
- Best practice models from the field
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag.a Michaela Bilir
- Basics of family theories and their concepts
- Goals, tasks and guiding principles of community health promotion and prevention for expectant and young families
- Actors in community health promotion for expectant and young families
- Models of health promotion and prevention (e.g. community readiness model) and their applicability to challenges and needs of expectant and young families
- Assessment tools for family health assessment
- Concepts of resilience within young and expectant families
- Interface management
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Hans Peter Köllner, BSc MSc
- Examination of basic literature in the field of project management, planning and evaluation of health promotion projects for different settings/target groups.
- Critical examination of the own project concept
- Specification of the project concept in a written elaboration (final paper)
Final exam
Written elaboration of the specified project concept incl. evaluation concept (final paper)
Individual work, feedback, peer feedback, discussion
German
Lector: Miriam Moser, MSc.
- Definition and practical examples of eCounseling and eHealth methods
- Relationship process, e.g. according to Peplau, and the role of the caregiver
- Exemplary instruments for implementation (ICT, applications and software)
- Data protection in the digital work environment
- Influence of environmental conditions on health behaviour and participation in eCounseling and eHealth offers
- Preventive and health-promoting offers by means of eCounseling and eHealth; examples from practice
- Benefits and limitations of eHealth and eCounseling offers, e.g. Ambient Assisted Living
Module exam
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag.a Elisabeth Potzmann
- Health literacy- Clarification of terms,
- Connection with health
- Figures/data/facts from Austria and internationally
- Areas of health literacy:- Health information conveyed by media (written, websites, apps, social media,...) using the example of current health communication topics (e.g. vaccination)- Quality criteria of "Good Health Information" ("Good Health Information Austria")
- Preparation of method papers on the organisational level
- Checklist for assessing the quality of health information
- Risk communication and fake news
- open questions in the field of health information
- Intercultural aspects
- Quality of conversation in health care- Quality characteristics in the area of personal conversations between members of the health care professions and patients
- building a patient-centred communication culture
- Communication training
- Citizen and patient empowerment as a transversal field of action- more participation, more self-determination through health literacy
- Patients' rights
- The health literate organization - a short insight- Creating frameworks and structures for more health literacy
- Examples of health literate organizations
Module exam
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: MPH Anna-Maria Schille, MSc
- Basic concepts, terms and definitions of population development and its processes.
- Overview of past, present and future population trends
- Implications of the projected population development for Austrian health policy in general and the financial viability of the Austrian social security system in particular.
- Overview and interpretation of basic epidemiological terms
- Overview of the most important national and international health organisations and their respective focus on epidemiology (e.g. WHO, ECDC, RKI, Ministries of Health)
- Presentation and analysis of data from different databases on sub-areas of epidemiology such as care epidemiology, social epidemiology, environmental epidemiology and discussion of the impact on the individual and collective health of people and groups of people
- Apply different epidemiological data to create target group-specific and evidence-based health and care interventions, or evidence-based counselling content.
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
Lecture, presentations, group work, discussion
German
Lector: Mag.a PhD Theresa Bengough, Hans Peter Köllner, BSc MSc
- Theoretical foundations of evaluation
- Methodological foundations of evaluation
- Design of evaluation projects in health promotion
- Basic principles of HTA and HIA
- Importance and application of HTA and HIA in Austria and Europe
- Components of and methods in HTA and HIA
- Conception of HTA and HIA
Final exam
LV-final written or oral final examination
Mainly activating methods, lecture, presentations, group work, discussion
German
Lector: Claudia Kasamas, MSc
- Practical counselling exercises with a focus on the counselling content level on selected topics such as
-Stoma,
diabetes
-medication management -adherence,
-disease management,
-amputation,
-Chronic Illness,
-relatives of the chronically ill
- Practical counseling exercises focusing on conversational techniques in counseling:
-Paraphrasing,
-Reframing,
-verbalizing,
-mirroring
-Formulating questions (solution-focused, hypnosystemic, analytic, hypothetical, circular questions, aggravation questions, scaling questions, miracle questions).
Continuous assessment
Immanent performance review
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Dr.rer.soc.oec. Mag.(FH) Maria Schulze
- Workplace health promotion in specific fields of intervention
- Project examples of different settings
Continuous assessment
Immanent performance assessment (written/oral)
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Angela Cohen, MSc
- Suicide prevention: risk groups, risk screening
- Addiction prevention
- Stress management and crisis intervention
- Stigmatisation (public & cultural, structural, personal) - focus on health care
- Destigmatisation (empowerment, recovery, participation) - Peer support
Final exam
LV-final oral or written final examination
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Dr.rer.soc.oec. Mag.(FH) Maria Schulze
- Definition of Workplace Health Promotion and Workplace Health Management
- Models of workplace health management / workplace health promotion
- Characteristics of healthy and unhealthy organizations
- Structures and processes of workplace health management / workplace health promotion
- Planning workplace health promotion projects
Continuous assessment
Mainly activating methods
German
Lector: Mag. Helmut Beichler
- Analysis phase with the use of assessment instruments (fatigue, delirium, pain) in the context of counselling
- Selected examples of counselling at content level (pain, migration and illness, psychiatric issues, fall prevention, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic wounds,)
- Selected lifestyle factors at content level (nutrition, exercise)
- Basic principles of crisis counselling (BELLA concept)
Continuous assessment
Immanent performance review
Mainly activating methods
German
- Presentation of the key points of the thesis
- Examination discussion and proof of in-depth knowledge of a related topic relevant to the final thesis
- Cross-connections to integrated forms of care for selected age groups
Final exam
Commission final examination
Commission final examination
German
Lector: Daniel Peter Gressl
- Deepening of the basic concepts of project management and health promotion.
- Examination of basic literature in the field of project management, planning and evaluation of health promotion projects for different settings/target groups
- Elaboration of own project outlines of the students
- Elaboration and presentation of a project concept based on the elaborated project outline
- Discussion of the presented project concepts in the plenum
- Critical discussion of the project concepts
Continuous assessment
Immanent performance assessment (written/oral).
2 partial performances: (1) Written elaboration of a project outline, (2) Presentation of the project concept.
Mainly activating methods
German
Number of teaching weeks
14
Teaching times
1-2 times a month blocked:
Thursday afternoon
Friday and Saturday all day
Schedule of the academic year subject to change: Academic year schedule (PDF 85 KB, content only available in German)
Electives
Selection and participation according to available places. There may be separate selection procedures.
As a graduate of this program, a wide range of professional fields and career opportunities are open to you. Find out where your path can lead you.
As a graduate, you will contribute your expertise to the exciting task of helping to build up and continuously develop this emerging professional field.
A maximum of 30 ECTS of the completed academic course modules can be credited for the Master "Advanced Nursing Practice" and "Advanced Nursing Counseling" in order to enter the 2nd semester, after a successful admission interview with the head of the program.
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 Academic Course Healthcare and Nursing, Practice Mentoring, Primary Health Care Nursing, Public Health
+43 1 606 68 77-4081
hans_peter.koellner@fh-campuswien.ac.at
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