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Do you work in the care sector and would you like to prove or expand your skills with further training?

The CAS Clinical Specialist course offers you the opportunity to do so. Here you will find offers from universities and useful information about continuing education:

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In the CAS Clinical Specialist, participants acquire skills that enable them to take on various demanding and responsible tasks within a delegation by a doctor and in collaboration with the medical profession. This includes the following activities:

  • The medical history based on the physical examination
  • Making a diagnosis or considering and taking into account a possible consultative diagnosis in collaboration with the doctor
  • The design and implementation of a treatment plan
  • Assisting with operations
  • Performing minor procedures on the doctor's orders
  • Responsibility for the appropriate forwarding to the addressee
  • Ordering and organizing transfers and referrals
  • The creation of documentation, reports and protocols

The CAS Clinical Specialist is divided into three modules, with the first module containing seven topics, all of which are completed in a written examination (laboratory and imaging diagnostics, pharmacology, pneumology, cardiology, pain management and dealing with emergencies).

The second module focuses on organization, planning, consulting, communication, information flow and presentation skills.

The third module can be completed either with a focus on oncology or administration and organization in healthcare.

The CAS Clinical Specialist is aimed at nursing professionals HF or FH, as well as assistant doctors who have just completed their studies or clinical specialists who would like to have their skills confirmed in a degree.

Questions and answers

The activities of clinical specialist jobs in hospitals and clinics include all tasks that are assigned to the medical service on a ward. This includes the following areas:

  • Daily rounds
  • Anamnesis by means of body examination
  • Diagnosis in consultation with doctors
  • Checking wounds and dressings
  • Progress documentation
  • Transfers and relocations
  • Exit reports
  • Coordination between nursing care and doctors
  • Treatment planning
  • and much more.

 

The Clinical Specialist course is divided into three modules and lasts 1 year, whereby 450 hours of learning must be expected for the three modules. Of these, approx. 150 hours are classroom teaching. It is also possible to complete only individual modules.

The costs for the Clinical Specialist training are made up as follows:

  • 3 modules of CHF 2,750 each (total CHF 8,250)
  • Voluntary additional courses: 350 francs / course day
  • Individual examinations: 70 francs per subject
  • Registration fee: 300 francs
  • Dossier check when registering "sur-Dossier": 200 francs

Like specialists in the entire healthcare sector, graduates of the CAS Clinical Specialist are in high demand. A look at the job portals from all over German-speaking Switzerland shows that the chances of being able to choose from various clinical specialist positions are not slim.

The clinical specialist salary is clearly much higher than that of nursing staff without further training. On average, you can expect a salary increase of around CHF 1,500 per month after completing the CAS Clinical Specialist. Of course, this depends on various conditions set by the employer.

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