Name of qualification Diplomirana medicinska sestra (vs)/diplomirani zdravstvenik (vs)Add to comparison [1]
Translated title (no legal status) Graduate nurse
Type of qualification Diploma prve stopnje (VS)
Category of qualification Izobrazba
Type of education Professional bachelor's education
Duration
3 years
Credits 180 credits
Admission requirements
  • Matura or
  • vocational matura, or
  • final examination (before 1 June 1995) for any four-year secondary school programme.
ISCED field Field
Zdravstvo in socialna varnost
ISCED subfield subfield zdravstvena nega in babištvo
Qualification level

SQF 7
EQF 6
First level

The qualification holder  will be able to:
(general competences)

  • demonstrate knowledge and observance of the principles of professional ethics,
  • integrate theoretical knowledge from various fields with practical experience in work with patients,
  • demonstrate mastery of theoretical and practical knowledge for the autonomous performance of care interventions and work in an interdisciplinary team in the performance of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures,
  • evaluate knowledge from related disciplines (sciences and humanities) and integrate it with nursing care,
  • demonstrate communication skills, including communication in an international environment,
  • adopt educational work for education and training of own staff and research,
  • undertake self-education and organised postgraduate education and understand the value of lifelong learning

(subject-specific competences)

  • undertake promotion of health, health education and learning for understanding the connections between lifestyle and health, for understanding health problems and processes for strengthening, achieving and maintaining health,
  • provide nursing care on the basis of medical history, nursing diagnosis and the set aims of nursing care,
  • participate in the treatment process as part of a medical team and carry out diagnostic and therapeutic programmes,
  • monitor the outcomes and effects of nursing interventions and document them,
  • carry out interdisciplinary and multisectoral liaison to ensure quality treatment of the patient,
  • provide nursing care as part of emergency medical aid,
  • organise, lead and supervise activities and the nursing care service,
  • lead a nursing team,
  • undertake educational work to renew own staff,
  • undertake nursing research and quality assurance.

Examination performance is scored as follows: 10 (excellent); 9 (very good: above-average knowledge but with some mistakes); 8 (very good: solid results); 7 (good); 6 (adequate: knowledge satisfies minimum criteria); 5–1 (inadequate). In order to pass an examination, the candidate must achieve a grade between adequate (6) and excellent (10). 

Students may enrol in a higher year if by the end of the academic year they have met all requirements defined by the study programme for enrolment in a higher year.

Second-cycle master's study programmes (SQF level 8)

Students complete their studies when they have met all prescribed requirements of the study programme.

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Health Sciences

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