Welcome

Welcome at the Provinciaal Instituut voor Verpleegkunde.

This page is especially for international exchanges. If you want to visit our regular site (in Dutch) click here.

Our nursing-school tries to go beyond their borders. It's our goal to learn from other cultures and techniques applied in other countries. Therefore we organize each year international projects in Europe and Africa.

These are some of the places we've been:

Of course we also gladly recieve foreign nursing-students.

If you would like to have more information, please contact miss Els Driessen (coordinator international projects)



General information about the school

The Provinciale Secundaire School van Hasselt (Belgium) has 2 departments : education for arts and for nurses. The education for nurses is oriented at the level of high vocational education 5 (HBO5) and has a modular structure. To become a nurse the student has to succeed in 5 modules for example: module 1 initiation in nursing (20 weeks), module 2 basic competences in nursing (20 weeks), module 3 orientation in elderly and mental care (20 weeks), module 4 orientation in general nursing (20 weeks) and module 5 applied nursing (40 weeks) (in the last module the student has to choose between the direction general care, elderly care or psychiatric care). The duration of the education is 3 years. In the school in 2010 are approximately 420 students and 100 professional staff.

The school has a lot of experience in mobility project in Europe within the framework of Leonardo da Vinci (Finland, Austria, Germany, Romania and Greece) and outside Europe (Senegal, Mali)

The last mobility project took place in Patras (Greece).

Technical and knowledge exchange for nurses students in the health and patient care Greece. (2008-LDV-IVT-084)

The students did a practical training in the Olympion Clinic of Patras (4 weeks). A private hospital meets high standards and quality care. The 3 students of the module applied nursing (general care) did a practical training on several wards for example: internal medicine, surgery, intensive care and operating room, emergency and consultations. One student of the module 3 orientation elderly and mental care did a practical training on revalidation ward instead of intensive care and operating room.

They saw how a high standard of quality care was given to the patients and how the doctors, nurses and other disciplines participated in the multidisciplinary team.

They integrated them well in the team.

They did also some cultural visits for example to Olympia, Delphi, Athens, They integrated them well in the culture of Greece and they had worthwhile contacts with the citizens of Patras.

If you would like to have more information, please contact miss Els Driessen (coordinator international projects)