Portrait OST - Ostschweizer Fachhochschule, Departement Gesundheit

For all those who take responsibility. The challenges in the healthcare sector are complex and demanding. With a degree in healthcare, you will prepare yourself for a wide range of tasks in nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy in a practical and scientifically sound manner, while never losing sight of the individual.

• Bachelor Nursing
  In the Bachelor's degree course in Nursing, you will acquire all the professional and social skills you need to correctly recognize symptoms and make scientifically sound decisions. Whether for physical or mental health: you will accompany patients professionally and improve their quality of life in the long term.
• Bachelor Physiotherapy
  There is more to studying physiotherapy at the OST: more than just drawing up training plans and instructing exercises. It's about the therapeutic relationship with patients, with which you play a key role in shaping the success of treatment, promote their self-management and accompany them through challenging change processes. You will learn how to use movement and training in a targeted way to improve physical and mental health in the long term.
• Bachelor Occupational Therapy 
  Occupational therapists strengthen the independence and ability to act of people who are restricted in their everyday lives due to illness, accidents or impairments. The aim is to (re)enable meaningful activities - such as personal hygiene, housekeeping or social participation - and thus sustainably improve quality of life. They learn to understand people holistically in their everyday life and environment. They actively incorporate the social, material and cultural environment into the therapy and work with clients to develop individual solutions.
• Master of Nursing Science
  Nursing science for individuality by learning to understand diversity, to use diversity, to live diversity and to care for diversity. Advanced Nursing Practice is diverse and colorful. You have the opportunity to complete a Master's degree in Nursing Science with90 ECTSto obtain. This general degree qualifies you to take on responsibility in practice, research, training and continuing education, further training in the nursing and healthcare sector. You will contribute to the change and further development of the system. In addition, we offer an extended Master's degree program with120 ECTSprogram. This provides you with in-depth specialist skills in clinical nursing practice so that you can perform roles as a nursing expert in Advanced Practice Nursing with a focus on Chronic Care.