Nursing education is undergoing change. How psychiatric nursing skills will be taught in the future is currently being developed. In the current form of basic psychiatric training, the development of personal, social, communication, technical and methodological skills is addressed in order to prepare learners for a changing world of work and life. This paper evaluates the extent to which the action-oriented teaching methods used with the students have led to the acquisition of skills. Based on the description of action-oriented teaching methods in training for higher-level health and nursing care, this paper outlines the skills required to perform future nursing tasks professionally. It also illustrates the teaching methods used and the implementation and evaluation of a questionnaire-based self-assessment of skills acquisition. The results confirm the increase in skills through action-oriented teaching methods.