Prof. Dr. Helma Bleses

+49 661 9640-6021
+49 661 9640-6490

Nursing Sciences and Clinical Nursing

Director of Studies Nursing Management

Fulda University of Applied Sciences
Building 53, Room 327
Leipziger Straße 123
36037 Fulda

Consultation hours: By appointment by e-mail

CV

  • Since 10/2006 Professor of Nursing Science and Clinical Nursing at the Faculty of Nursing and Health at Fulda University of Applied Sciences.
  • 2009 - 2011 Training in sense-oriented psychotherapy (logotherapy and existential analysis, DGLE)
  • 2006 Head of the Department of Organisational Development at the Koblenz - Mayen Joint Hospital, Kemperhof Koblenz site
  • 2005 Doctorate in Nursing Science at the Centre for Human and Health Sciences, Institute for Medical/Nursing Pedagogy and Nursing Science at the Medical Faculty Charité - University Medicine Berlin
  • 1996 - 2005 Personnel development and public relations officer at St. Elisabeth Krankenhaus Mayen GmbH / Gemeinschaftsklinikum Koblenz - Mayen, Kemperhof Koblenz site
  • 2002 - 2003 Training as DGQ Quality Manager in Health Care/ EOQ Quality Systems Manager in Health Care
  • 1992 - 1994 Further training in nursing management
  • 1991 - 1996 Nursing studies at the Institute for Medicine/Nursing Education and Nursing Science at the Medical Faculty of the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, degree: Diploma
  • 1988 Guest internships USA, Citenella Hospital Los Angeles, California, San Bernadino County Medical Center, San Bernadino, California
  • Examination as paediatric nurse

Teaching Areas

  • Nursing Science
  • Ethics in research
  • Research in health care settings
  • Quality management in health care
  • Care and case management
  • Communication and critical thinking

Areas of Research

  • Patient/personnel orientation
  • Human resource development
  • Organisational development
  • Networks in the health care system
  • Quality management in the health sector
  • Human-machine interaction in the health sector

Research Projects

Third-party funded projects

  • EthiKo
    Ethical
    competenceand moral stress of nurses in the field of action
    Duration: 01/04/2021 - 30/09/2022

  • Akt-on
    Aspectsandpotentials ofdistance care giving intimes of pandemics
    Duration: 01.08.2020 - 31.07.2022

  • RoboLand
    Telepresencerobots in the home living and care arrangement of persons with dementia in ruralareas.
    Collaborative partners: Prof. Dr. Erwin Praßler, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Chair of Autonomous Systems, Department of Computer Science;
    Cooperations : Dr. Thomas Beer, University of St. Gallen (CH);
    Prof. Dr. Ronald Hitzler, University of Dortmund;
    Practice partners: Vogelsbergkreis district and Trendelburg town
    Funded: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as part of the SILQUA-FH call for proposals Funding code: 13FH008SA6 (HFD) /
    13FH006SA3 (HS-BRS)
    Duration:12/2016 - 7/2020

  • EmoRobot
    Emotion-stimulatingassistancerobots in the care and support of people suffering from dementia in inpatient long-term care
    Collaborative partners: Prof. Dr. Erwin Praßler, Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences, Chair of Autonomous Systems, Department of Computer Science
    Collaborations: Dr. Thomas Beer, University of St. Gallen (CH), Prof. Dr. Ronald Hitzler, University of Dortmund and
    Practice partner: Katharinenstift Wiesbaden.
    Funded: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding line SILQUA-FH 2013, funding code: 03FH006SA3
    Duration: 6/2013 - 11/2016

  • EMOTi-KOMM
    Impact analysis of emotion-orientedcommunication approachesin the care of people with dementia in institutional care situations
    Together with Prof. Dr. Daphne Hahn
    Funded : Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding line SILQUA-FH 2010, FKZ: 17S04X09 Third-party funded project
    Duration: 6/2010 - 5/2013

  • KomPP
    Competence NetworkCareand PharmacotherapyNorth Hesse.
    Networking of outpatient and inpatient care to reduce drug-related morbidity in elderly and very elderly people in the region
    Together with Prof. Dr. Henny Annette Grewe and Prof. Dr. Beate Blättner
    Funded: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the funding line SILQUA-FH 2009
    Duration: 4/2009 - 6/2012

  • Palliative Care at the University of Applied Sciences
    "Continuing Certificate Programme Palliative Care" at the University of Applied Sciences Fulda (HS)

  • PIK InterWork
    Management of processes, informationand competencesin regional networks - sub-project "Survey of women's information needs on the Central Rhine Breast Centre"
    Funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation for Innovation

 

Student projects (duration 2 semesters)

  • Project "Poetry in Management"
    Study programme Management in Health Care (MIG)
    Project duration: WS 2021/2022 & SoSe 2022

  • Project "Secondary Data Analysis "
    Nursing Management degree programme
    Project duration: WS 2020/2021 & SoSe 2021

  • Project "Students in RoboLand II "
    Nursing Management programme
    Project duration: WS 2029/2020 & SoSe 2020

  • Project "Students in RoboLand I"
    Nursing Management programme
    Project duration: WS 2018/2019 & SoSe 2019

  • Secondary analysis of the data corpus from the projects Gutes Leben mit Demenz im Vogelsbergkreis I - III
    Study programme Nursing Management
    Project duration: WS 2017/2018 - SoSe 2018

  • Good Livingwith Dementia in the Vogelsberg District III
    Nursing Management degree programme
    Project duration: WS 2015/2016 - SoSe 2017

  • Gutes Leben mit Demenz im Vogelsbergkreis II
    Study programme Nursing Management
    Project duration: WS 2014/2015 and SoSe 2016

  • Gutes Leben mit Demenz im Vogelsbergkreis I
    Course of studies in Care Management
    Project duration: WS 2014/2015 and SoSe 2015

  • Students in the EmoRobot project (I)
    Nursing Management degree programme
    Implications for the (potential) use of robotic assistance systems in the nursing care of people with dementia in different settings. A systematic literature analysis and qualitative study
    Project duration: WS 2013/2014 and SoSe 2014

  • eLLap
    Nursing management degree programme
    Evaluation project of the established teaching/learning station for Bachelor students of the university degree programme in nursing
    Project duration: WS 2012/2013 and SoSe 2013

  • ImpuLLse
    Study programme Nursing Management
    Concept presentation for the teaching/learning station at the HJK in cooperation with Fulda University of Applied Sciences Students of the project group
    Project duration: WS 2011/2012 and SoSe 2012

  • ImpuLLs
    Study programme in nursing management
    Implementation of a teaching/learning station in cooperation with an academic nursing teaching institution at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
    Project duration: WS 2010/2011 and SoSe 2011

  • WEG- Weiterentwicklung gestalten
    Study programme Nursing Management
    Evaluation of the clinical-practical training phase II using the example of the one-year professional (post-)qualification of graduates of the primary qualifying study programme Nursing B.Sc. at Kreisklinikum Siegen GmbH
    Project duration: Summer Semester 2009 and Winter Semester 2009/2010

  • OPTIMAL
    Nursing management course
    Evaluation of clinical-practical training phase I using the example of the one-year professional (post-)qualification of graduates of the primary qualifying nursing B.Sc. course at Kreisklinikum Siegen GmbH
    Project duration: Summer semester 2008 and winter semester 2008/2009

  • Clinical-practical training
    Nursing management degree programme
    Evaluation of the clinical-practical training of students of the nursing degree programme (B.Sc.) in the nursing laboratories of the Department of Nursing and Health Care

Memberships

  • Member of the Evaluation Commission of Fulda University of Applied Sciences (2007 - 12/2013)
  • Member of the Faculty Council for Nursing and Health
  • Member of the Centre for Academic Continuing Education at Fulda University of Applied Sciences
  • Member of the working group "Improvement of end-of-life care", HAGE - Hessische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gesundheitserziehung e.V. (Hessian Association for Health Education)
  • Member of the German Society for Nursing Science (DGP), Duisburg
  • Member Plantree e.V., Bonn
  • Deputy Member of the Institute Council of the Hessian Institute for Nursing Research (HessIP), Frankfurt/Main
  • Member of the Federal Dean's Conference on Nursing Science
  • Member of the State Nursing Committee

Publications

Status 01.05.2022

  • Dammert, M.; Steinacker, A.; Bleses, H. M . (2021): Intrapersonal conflicts of researchers in the context of an investigation on the use of telepresence robotics in the home living and care arrangement of persons with dementia. In: Nover, S; Panke-Kochinke, B.: Qualitative nursing research. Stubbornness, morphology and appropriateness. Baden-Baden: Nomos. S. 7-18
  • Beer T.; Bleses H.M.; Hirt, J. (2020): Eventised in-between times. Technologies in the care-free everyday life of persons with dementia. In: Pfannstiel, M.; Krammer, S.; Swoboda, W. (eds.): Innovations und Innovationsmanagement im Gesundheitswesen. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
  • Dammert, M.; Ziegler, S.; Beer, T.; Bleses, H. M. (2020): On exploring human-machine interaction in the use of telepresence robotics with persons with dementia - Aspects of field entry. In: Hergesell, Jannis, Maibaum, Arne, Meister, Martin (eds.) (2020). Genesis and consequences of caregiver robotics. The constitution of an interdisciplinary research field. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa. S. 253-275.
  • Bleses, H. M.; Dammert, M. (2020): New technologies from the perspective of nursing science. In: Hanika, H. (ed.): Künstliche Intelligenz, Robotik und autonome Systeme in der Gesundheitsversorgung, pp. 55-85. Berlin: Verlag Wissenschaft & Praxis.
  • Beer, T., Bleses, H., Buhtz, C., Hirt, J., Krause, J., Meyer, G. et al. (2019). Robotics in nursing - a status review and implications for future research initiatives. In Deutsches Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin e.V. (Ed.), EbM-Kongress. Abstract volume. Available at https://www.egms.de/static/en/meetings/ebm2019/19ebm144.shtml
  • Bleses, H.M. (2019). Editorial Pflege 4.0: On the complexity of digitalisation. Pflege, 32 (6), 1 - 3.
  • Ziegler, Sven / Dammert, Matthias / Bleses, Helma M. (2018): Telepresence robots in the home of persons with dementia in rural areas. Presentation at the C1. Cluster Conference Innovative Technologies for Care. Published In: Proceedings of the 1st Cluster Conference 2018. Available online: https://srvg03.offis.uni-oldenburg.de/piz/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Zukunft-der-Pflege-Tagungsband-der-Clusterkonferenz-2018.pdf
  • Dammert, Matthias; Bleses, Helma M.; Beer, Thomas (2017). Closeness or distance - Who wants what? Communication with persons with dementia. Disabled People. Journal for Living, Learning and Working Together (40) 3, pp. 55 - 61.
  • Bleses, Helma M./Ziegler, Sven/Füller, Matthias/Beer, Thomas (2017): Persons with dementia and telepresence robots: virtual encounters in everyday situations. In: Pfannstiel, Mario A./Krammer, Sandra/Swoboda, Walter (eds.): Digitale Transformation von Dienstleistungen im Gesundheitswesen III. Impulses for nursing practice. Wiesbaden: Springer Gabler.
  • Ziegler, Sven/Bleses, Helma M. (2017): Interpretations in and to encounter situations of persons with dementia and robots. In: Burzan, Nicole/Hitzler, Ronald (eds.): Theoretical Insights: In the context of empirical work. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 125-146.
  • Dammert, Matthias/Keller, Christine/Beer, Thomas/BlesesHelma M.: (2016): Person-Sein zwischen Anspruch und Wirklichkeit: Eine Untersuchung zur Anwendung der Integrativen Validation und der Basalen Stimulation in der Begleitung von Personen mit Demenz. Weinheim: Beltz Juventa
  • Ziegler, Sven/Beer, Thomas/Füller, Matthias/Bleses, Helma M. (2015): The alienation of the stranger. Exploring strangeness and person orientation in the use of robotics in the care of persons with dementia. In: Pflegezeitschrift 68 (12), 716 - 720.
    Awarded the 1st prize of the Pflegezeitschrift 2015 and provided by the Josef and Luise Kraft Foundation.
  • Hülsken-Giesler, Manfred/Bleses, Helma M. (2015): Focus: New technologies in care. In: Pflege & Gesellschaft, 20 (1), 3 - 4.
  • Beer, Thomas/Bleses, Helma M./Ziegler, Sven (2015): "Persons with Dementia and Robotic Assistance Systems - Ethnographic Explorations of Marginal Actors in Care". In: Pflege & Gesellschaft 20 (1), 20 - 36.
  • Ziegler, Sven/Treffurth, Tanja/Bleses, Helma M. (2015): According to the (presumed) will!? Ethical requirements in the involvement of vulnerable persons (using the example of persons with dementia) in scientific projects to research emotion-oriented care and support with robotic assistance systems. In: Pflege & Gesellschaft 20 (1), 37 - 52.
  • Beer Thomas/Ziegler, Sven/Bleses, Helma M. (2015): Technical assistance systems as caregiver collaborators. The robot as friend and companion, In Curaviva 86 (1), 22 - 25.
  • Beer, Thomas/Bleses, Helma (2014): People with dementia and robotic assistance systems - agents on the margin of society? Abstract volume of the 29th International Conference of Alzheimer's Disease International. [PDF at: www.alz.co.uk/sites/default/files/conf2014/OC011.pdf, accessed: 30.10.2014]
  • Beer. Thomas/Bleses, Helma M./Ziegler, Sven (2014): Persons with dementia and robotic assistance systems - Robotic assistance systems in emotion-oriented care and support. In: Püllen, Rupert/Simm, Andreas (eds.): Stress und Altern - Chancen und Risiken. Abstract volume of the 12th Congress of the DGGG, the 26th Annual Congress of the DGG, the 4th Joint Congress of the DGGG and the SGG SSG, the 2nd Joint Congress of the DGGG and the SFGG*SPSG and the 9th Joint German-Austrian Geriatrics Congress from 24-27 September 2014 in Halle (Saale), p. 111. [PDF at: www.dggeriatrie.de/images/stories/pdf/abstractband_halle2014.pdf, accessed: 01.12.2016]
  • Keogh, Johann.J./Loewenhardt, Christine/Herchet, Daniela/Bleses, Helma (2012): Nurse education in Fulda: Simulation as a means to attain clinical competence. In: Poikela, Esa/Poikela, Paula (eds.): Towards simulation pedagogy: Developing Nursing simulation in a European network. Rovaniemi: Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences Publications, 62-71.
  • Bleses, Helma M. (2010): Clinic - Networks: Initiated from outside - designed from within. Reflections on the design of networking. In: Hass, Berthold/Jung, RüdigerH./Simon, Carlo (eds.) in cooperation with Helma M. Bleses: Managementin regional networks. Fundamentals, Applications, Perspectives. Aachen: Shaker, 83-102.
  • Bleses, Helma M./Lindermann, Nadine/Heming, Markus (2010): Insights and Prospects - Clinic Network at a Glance. The Middle Rhine Breast Centre in the Development Process. In: Hass, Berthold/Jung, Rüdiger .H/Simon, Carlo (ed.) in cooperation with Helma M. Bleses: Management in Regional Networks. Fundamentals, Applications, Perspectives Aachen: Shaker, 103-123.
  • Loewenhardt, Christine/Bleses, Helma M.; Behrens, Johann (2009): Evaluation of clinical-practical training of nursing students in the laboratories of the university learning site. The primary qualifying study programme Nursing B.Sc. at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, PrIntNet First! (E). [Available online at www.printernet.info/show.asp, Accessed: 30.04.2009]
  • Loewenhardt, Christine/Bleses, Helma M.; Behrens, Johann (2009): Evaluation of clinical-practical training of nursing students in the laboratories of the university learning site. The primary qualifying study programme Nursing B.Sc. at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, PrIntNet 2009 (9).
  • Bleses, Helma M. (2008): Personnel planning and control. In: Greiner, Wolfgang/Schulenburg, Matthias J. Graf v. d./Vauth, Christoph (eds.): Gesundheitsbetriebslehre, Management von Gesundheitsunternehmen. Textbook Health Sciences. Introduction to business administration for companies operating in the health care sector. Bern: Huber.
  • Bleses, Helma M. (2005):Patientenorientierung als Qualitätsmerkmal. Dissertation at the Institute for Medical/Nursing Education and Nursing Science at the Medical Faculty Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Berlin. [Available online at: edoc.hu-berlin.de/dissertationen/bleses-helma-2005-01-24/PDF/Bleses.pdf, accessed: 14.06.2017]
  • Bleses, Helma M. (2001): Patient orientation - a utopia? In: Landenberger, Margarete; Münch, Matthias (eds.) Innovation in Nursing. Bern/Göttingen/ Toronto/Seattle: Huber, 61-69.
  • Bleses, Helma (1998): Ist- Analyse: Ziel und Notwendigkeit, In: Prognos (ed.) Patientenorientierung eine Utopie? Model experiences in the nursing service of St. Elisabeth Krankenhaus Mayen GmbH. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 91 -104.
  • Bleses, Helma (1998): Gestaltungsfelder für eine patientenorientierte Pflegeorganisation, In: Prognos (ed.): Patientenorientierung eine Utopie? Model experiences in the nursing service of St. Elisabeth Krankenhaus Mayen GmbH. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, 181 - 208.
  • Bleses, Helma (1998): Nursing concept. In: Prognos (ed.). Patient Orientation a Utopia? Model experiences in the nursing service of St. Elisabeth Krankenhaus Mayen GmbH. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag, pp. 157 -169.
  • Bleses, Helma (1998): Patient-oriented care is neither inconsequential nor unsuccessful. In: Die Schwester/Der Pfleger 37 (3), 372 - 378.
  • Bleses, Helma (1998): Nursing concept. Supplement in: Pflegefachzeitschrift 50 (2), pp. 1-11.
  • Bleses, Helma (1997): Changing values in nursing, or: the basic dilemma of nurses. In: PflegeManagement 5 (6), - 17.
  • Bleses, Helma (1997): Entwicklung und Erprobung eines ganzheitlichen Pflegesystems. In: Büssing, André (ed.). From functional to holistic nursing. Reorganisation of service processes in hospitals. Göttingen: Verlag für Angewandte Psychologie, 269 - 288.
  • Bleses, Helma (1997): Personalentwicklung im Krankenhaus. In: PflegeManagement 5 (2), 21 - 25.
  • Bleses, Helma (1996): Personnel development and fluctuation in nursing. Diploma thesis submitted on 15 February 1996 to the Humboldt University of Berlin, Charité Medical Faculty, Institute for Medical/Nursing Education and Nursing Science (unpublished).
  • Bleses, Helma (1996): Holistic nursing model to improve nursing care. In: Pflegefachzeitschrift 49 (2), 116 - 118.
  • Bleses, Helma M./Heuvelmann, Maria/Mogendorf, Jörg (1996): Bundespflegemodell ...vom Mount Everest zum Siebengebirge.... In: Bellabarba, Julia/Schnappauf, Detlef.: Organisationsentwicklung im Krankenhaus. Stuttgart: Publishing House for Applied Psychology. Hogrefe, 63 - 83.
  • Bleses, Helma (1995): Model project at St. Elisabeth Hospital, Mayen. In: Balk-Info issue, 6 (20), 48.
  • Bleses, Helma (1995): Ambulantes Operieren im Krankenhaus - Auswirkungen des Gesundheitsstrukturgesetzes auf die vor- und nachstationäre Behandlung. In: Beier, Jutta/Bodin, Monika/Fichtner, Karl-Heinz/Schwarze, Holger, Bazak, Wilhelm Jahrbuch der Pflege- und Gesundheitsberufe 1995/1996, Reinbek: LAU- Ausbildungssysteme GmbH, Verlag für Medizin und Technik, 15 - 39.
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