Kenntnisprüfung Pflege — your route to German nursing recognition
Built around the German Pflegeprozess. Our mocks model the care scenarios, documentation and communication the Anerkennungsprüfung assesses — in clinical German.
- Modelled on the Pflegeprozess
- Care scenarios in clinical German
- Anerkennung als Pflegefachkraft
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The nursing equivalency exam for German recognition
Required when the recognition application returns a deficit notice. Conducted by the Landesbehörde / approved Pflegeschulen.
- Conducting body: Landesbehörde / approved nursing schools (Pflegeschulen).
- Trigger: a deficit notice after the recognition check (Anerkennungsverfahren).
- Alternative: an Anpassungslehrgang (adaptation course) — the exam route is usually faster.
- Framework: the German nursing process (Pflegeprozess) and core care competencies.
- Format: a practical exam with patients plus an oral component, often up to ~3 hours.
- Language: conducted in German; recognition typically needs B1-B2.
- Outcome: a pass grants Anerkennung als Pflegefachfrau/-mann.
- Fee & cycle: set per state — confirm with your Landesbehörde.
- 1General German B1–B2telc / Goethe certificate
- 2AnerkennungsantragSubmit qualification for the equivalency check
- 3DefizitbescheidAuthority identifies substantial differences
- 4Kenntnisprüfung (this exam)Practical + oral nursing exam
- 5AnerkennungRegistered to work as a Pflegefachkraft
Routes, fees and language thresholds vary by Bundesland — always confirm with your Landesbehörde.
Pflegeprozess-built, scenario-driven
Care scenarios
Realistic Fallsituationen — fall risk, diabetes, post-op care — structured the way the practical exam frames them.
Pflegeprozess drills
Assessment → planning → implementation → evaluation, with the German documentation vocabulary you'll be marked on.
Communication + Übergabe
Patient and colleague communication prompts in clinical German — the part that trips up strong nurses.
Competency heatmap
See which care domains are lagging and target your final revision where it matters most.
Mock packs · pay-as-you-go
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What's possible online for the KP Pflege
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What's possible online for KP — Kenntnisprüfung für Pflegekräfte
The real KP Pflege has two in-person parts: an oral case-study viva and a practical patient simulation in a clinical ward. We can fully replicate the oral viva and the documentation; the physical care delivery has to happen in real life.
What you get online
- AI examiner oral viva — German voice Q&A covering Kompetenzbereiche (Pflegeplanung, Kommunikation, Ethik, Wundversorgung, Notfallversorgung)
- Pflegeplanung editor — structured care-plan templates with AI rubric grading against state nursing competency frameworks
- Virtual ward simulation — branching multi-step scenario: ward handover → assessment → care plan → execute → handover (decision-tree based; no physical procedures)
- Drug calculations + dosage scenarios with the on-screen calculator
- Per-section pass/fail breakdown matching the real exam's modular structure
What stays in-person only
- Drawing blood, inserting catheters, executing physical hygiene care, manual mobilisation of patients — these require a physical ward
- The instructor's real-time supervision during the practical exam
- The official Pflege Approbation — issued only after the in-person practical
Why this prep still helps you pass
The clinical reasoning, prioritisation and Pflegeplanung documentation make up roughly 70% of what's graded in the practical exam — all of these are fully drillable online. Combine our prep with hands-on ward placement (Anerkennungspraktikum), and you'll arrive at the real exam much better prepared than peers who only do bedside practice.
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Practise the care situations the exam puts in front of you
German nursing-process scenarios, documentation and communication — with feedback that builds your clinical German.