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  1. Mark your learning goals

    Your course adapts to your goals and work schedule.

  2. Access your course program

  3. Book optional private classes

    Contact a teacher for a first trial class.

Course details

German for Nurses: Language Preparation for Recognition and Employment in Germany (aligned with Fachsprachprüfung Pflege)

Who is this course for?

  • Nurses trained outside Germany who intend to work in German hospitals, clinics, or care institutions.
  • Nurses undergoing Anerkennung procedures with German authorities.
  • EU and non-EU healthcare professionals required to demonstrate German language competence for nursing practice.
  • Nurses preparing for official language exams such as telc Deutsch B1–B2 Pflege, Fachsprachprüfung Pflege, or Goethe-Zertifikat B2.

What you will learn

  • Understand the structure of the German healthcare system and the role of hospitals, clinics, and care facilities.
  • Prepare for language requirements connected to nursing recognition (Anerkennung) with German authorities such as regional recognition offices.
  • Train for recognised German nursing language exams, including telc Deutsch B1–B2 Pflege and the Fachsprachprüfung Pflege.
  • Prepare for job interviews and professional communication with German employers.
  • Use German confidently in everyday nursing situations such as handovers, emergencies, documentation, and teamwork.

This course in short

  • You gain the language skills required to work as a nurse in Germany.
  • Learning combines guided self-study, practical assignments, and targeted conversation classes.
  • Your personal teacher adapts the programme to your recognition pathway and professional goals.
  • You monitor your progress through our online learning portal.

Pricing

How do you want to learn?

Course schedule

No fixed group times: study when you want, and book a teacher around your work.

  • Learn from the comfort of your home
  • Learn whenever you want, with the book and portal
  • Schedule conversation classes when you want

How you learn

You learn with a structured course portal and optional conversation classes when you want.

  • Online study

    Audio, video, AI corrections

  • PDF downloads or printed book

    PDF downloads included with any course. Printed book sold separately.

  • Optional conversation classes

    Book a teacher when you want.

Curriculum

Profession-specific modules to combine with any level course (A1–B2).

Learning objectives

  • Describe your educational background
  • Describe your workplace and departments
  • Explaining Hospital Equipment and Getting Your Bearings
  • Vocabulary: hospital departments, furniture and rooms, equipment, workwear and shoes

Learning objectives

  • Describe your daily tasks, responsibilities and schedule
  • Explain shift work and working in a team
  • Describe hospital organisation and planning
  • Vocabulary: planning and shift scheduling

Learning objectives

  • Observe changes in condition and behaviour
  • Measure and record vital signs accurately
  • Report any unusual observations to your supervisor
  • Vocabulary: observation terminology (colour, consistency, temperature, quantity), vital signs, documentation dates, breathing, pulse, level of consciousness

Learning objectives

  • Read and write brief care reports
  • Ask questions about the patient’s condition
  • Use clear, objective language in your report
  • Vocabulary: report structure, administrative terminology, report writing language, patient status terminology

Learning objectives

  • Take part in multidisciplinary meetings
  • Give your opinion
  • Understanding other professionals’ roles
  • Vocabulary: Healthcare job titles and hierarchy, roles in multidisciplinary teams

Learning objectives

  • Follow hygiene and safety rules
  • Describe infection prevention measures.
  • Describe your responsibilities during an epidemic or pandemic
  • Vocabulary: Hygiene, infection prevention, PPE (personal protective equipment), hand hygiene, cleaning routines, waste segregation and recycling in healthcare

Learning objectives

  • Describe skin conditions, wounds and hygiene
  • Recognising and reporting pressure ulcers (bedsores)
  • Vocabulary: skin condition, wounds, pressure ulcers, risk factors, pressure points, skin assessment terminology

Learning objectives

  • Recognise conditions such as diabetes, COPD, dementia and Parkinson’s disease.
  • Adapt care based on symptoms and treatment plans
  • Recognise symptoms of left- and right-sided heart failure (decompensation) and rheumatic conditions
  • Chronic conditions, flare-ups vs a stable state, heart failure (left- or right-sided decompensation), rheumatic diseases

Learning objectives

  • Ask about their daily routine (sleep, meals, mobility)
  • Encourage patients to do gentle exercise
  • Offer mobility support
  • Vocabulary: personal care, daily routines, bodily functions, fall prevention

Learning objectives

  • Recognising symptoms after a stroke or injury
  • Describe a rehabilitation plan.
  • Attend an evaluation meeting
  • Support with safe repositioning, transfers and the use of mobility aids
  • Rehabilitation, physiotherapy, mobility, assistive devices, stroke symptoms, recovery goals, assessment terminology, repositioning, bed mobility, transfer techniques

Learning objectives

  • Recognising incidents and aggressive behaviour
  • Report and keep accurate records
  • Use de-escalation strategies
  • Respond confidently to basic emergencies such as hypoglycaemia, seizures, allergic reactions and shock
  • Vocabulary: Aggression, Incident Reporting, De-escalation Strategies, Conflict Management, Safety Terminology, Hypo-/Hyperglycaemia, Seizure, Allergic Reaction, Shock, AED Awareness

Learning objectives

  • Discuss patients’ wishes for end-of-life care
  • Expressing condolences and offering emotional support
  • Respect cultural and religious differences
  • Vocabulary: palliative care, hospice care, death and religion, emotions, empathy, condolence phrases

Learning objectives

  • Explaining prescribed medicines and self-medication
  • Give clear dosage instructions.
  • Reading and interpreting medication summaries
  • Dosage, pharmacology basics, packaging symbols, waste management, instructions for use

Learning objectives

  • Difficulty eating or swallowing
  • Complete the fluid or food intake list
  • Monitor hydration status and understand the basics of fluid balance (intake and output)
  • Healthy eating, aspiration prevention, eating aids, dietary restrictions, dysphagia vocabulary, fluid balance, intake and output (I&O), signs of dehydration, hydration monitoring

Learning objectives

  • Explain meal and diet options
  • Discuss preferences and adapt menus for specific needs
  • Vocabulary: meals and drinks in care settings, diabetes-related nutrition terms, nutrition for chronic conditions, menu adjustments

Learning objectives

  • Help with passing urine and stools (using bedpans and urine bottles)
  • Provide hygienic incontinence care
  • Describe the colour, consistency and amount of urine and stool.
  • Excretion: urination/bowel movements, incontinence care, bedpans and urinals, personal hygiene, describing colour/consistency/amount

Learning objectives

  • Organising activities for residents
  • Public holidays and social events
  • Join in small talk and family discussions
  • Social events, public holidays, small talk, family get-togethers, celebrations

Learning objectives

  • Describe informal care and family roles
  • How to support volunteers
  • Fill in the care records
  • Family roles, relationships, informal care, voluntary support, and documenting care at home

Learning objectives

  • Recognise the symptoms of schizophrenia, psychotic disorders and severe mental illness
  • Communicating effectively with clients who are experiencing hallucinations, delusions or confusion
  • Supporting clients with learning disabilities and neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g. Rett syndrome)
  • Schizophrenia, psychosis, hallucinations, delusions, intellectual disability, Rett syndrome, crisis warning signs

Learning objectives

  • Use the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) and other pain assessment tools, including non-verbal signs of pain.
  • Describe the WHO classification system and Gordon’s functional health patterns.
  • Explain Machteld Huber’s “Positive Health” model and the content–process–interaction–subsistence levels.
  • Use the SBARR method to communicate clearly and in a structured way
  • Vocabulary: NRS, pain assessment tools, the WHO system, Gordon’s functional health patterns, Positive Health, SBARR, assessment vocabulary, non-verbal pain indicators

Learning objectives

  • Identify common groups of medicines, such as beta-blockers, and explain their effects and risks.
  • Choose the right intramuscular (IM) injection site based on age, muscle mass and safety.
  • Recognise the signs of malnutrition and support clients who are struggling to stick to their diet.
  • Vocabulary: beta-blockers, intramuscular injection sites (deltoid muscle, ventrogluteal site, vastus lateralis muscle), signs of malnutrition, diet adherence

Learning objectives

  • Prepare patients for surgery, including fasting guidelines, hygiene and transport arrangements.
  • Providing emotional and physical support to patients before, during and after surgery
  • Explain the difference between sedation, anaesthesia and palliative sedation.
  • Preoperative checklist, anaesthesia, palliative sedation, sterile field, postoperative care terminology

Learning objectives

  • Learn about care homes and referrals
  • Distinguish between inpatient and outpatient care
  • Explain outreach and community-based care services.
  • Healthcare settings (GPs, care homes), referrals, inpatient and outpatient care, home care, community nursing, insurance

Learning objectives

  • Learning how to use new hygiene products and technologies
  • Apply ergonomic techniques safely
  • Describe preventive nursing measures (falls, thrombosis)
  • Care equipment, ergonomic techniques, personal care tools, preventative care, mobility belts and non-slip materials

Learning objectives

  • Communicate with customers from different cultures
  • Support for residents with hearing or memory issues
  • Cultural differences, communication styles, hearing and memory difficulties, and supportive communication strategies

Learning objectives

  • Managing ethical dilemmas in day-to-day nursing practice
  • Apply principles of data protection, autonomy and respect in patient communication
  • Follow professional norms, values and legal standards
  • Privacy, autonomy, respect, professional standards and values, legal requirements, quality of care

All levels

Includes access to all levels

German A1
German A1
German A2
German A2
German B1
German B1

Course certificate — Progress report of mastered topics. Teacher verification in classes. Aligned with Goethe.

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Personalized tasks and hand-ins

Your teacher sets personalized tasks—and the app adapts exercises to your level and the areas you find hardest.

Learning portal

Study online or offline with PDF downloads, interactive exercises, audio, video, and AI-powered writing feedback.

Structured learning paths

Follow clear paths from A1 to C1, plus professional courses tailored to your goals.

Conversation classes

Every teacher is personally screened and trained to teach with our learning portal—so your classes match your course and progress.

Offline worksheets (PDF, translated)

Download the full e-book as PDF, or print any lesson as a translated worksheet.

Quality guarantee

We partner with universities and align every course with official learning programs—for reliable, recognized learning.

Learn with real content (news, podcasts…)

Practice with real news articles and podcasts—immersive content that prepares you for everyday language.

Full-skill training: listening, reading, writing, speaking

Train all four skills: listening and pronunciation with audio, reading with authentic texts, writing with AI feedback, and speaking in your classes.

Course materials trusted by official libraries and bookshops

Our books are sold in bookshops across Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Switzerland, Poland, Austria, and beyond—and approved by public libraries.

Academic collaboration with universities

Course plans are co-developed from our Valencian office with multiple European universities.

Student reviews of our German lessons

  • 4.6/5
4.6 out of 5 based on 12 ratings

Clear structure from A1 upward. AI corrections in the portal save time; I still work through the printed units.

Rachel E.
Helsinki, Finland
Self-study
  • 4.8/5

Studying offline with the book, online for corrections. Works for EU adults who cannot attend fixed classroom hours.

Claire D.
Lyon, France
Blended learning
  • 4.6/5

Flexible enough for family life. I download lessons, use translated audio, and book a teacher when I need feedback.

David R.
Berlin, Germany
Blended learning
  • 4.3/5

Our partners

We thank our partners for the support we receive for developing our online school.

We proudly work with Lanzadera, a Spanish accelerator program in Valencia.

The university of Siegen helps us to develop and design our education systems and programs.

Our IT systems are powered and supported by the Google Cloud team

We collaborate with universities all across the European Union to develop our course materials, thanks to the Erasmus+ Program.

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