KoenIG - Conception and implementation of a dual, primary qualifying, generalist study programme in nursing according to the Nursing Profession Act (Pflegeberufsgesetz - PflBG)
Funding by: Hessian Ministry of Economics and Art within the framework of the study structure programme, funding 2016, chapter 15 02, funding accounting code 2995, funding product 7, programme A. File reference: 460/43/00,016(0002)
Project management:<link departments care-and-health about-us professorships details person prof-dr-helma-bleses-43 contactbox _blank internal link in current>Prof. Dr. Helma M. Bleses
Research assistant: Ina Löber M.Sc. PPG
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Duration:01.10.2016 - 30.09.2018
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With the new Nursing Professions Act, the Faculty of Nursing and Health intends to convert its existing primary qualifica (PflBG) to convert its previous primary qualifying Bachelor's programme in Nursing (B.Sc.), which has existed since 2004, into a dual, generalist and training-integrated independent study programme.
The anchoring of academic qualification in the new Nursing Professions Act (PflBG) opens up fundamental development opportunities for the universities for the first time. The Fulda University of Applied Sciences intends - insofar as the legal regulations permit - to offer a completely redesigned study programme that:
- leads to a generalised nursing profession (health and children's nursing, health and nursing care as well as geriatric nursing)
- leads graduates to professional accreditation under the university's own responsibility
- is designed in such a way that graduates have competences to perform reserved activities.
In the most recent assessment of the development in the health care system, the German Council of Economic Experts (SVR 2014: 543) explicitly refers to the special report of the German Council of Science and Humanities of 2012, which explicitly calls for a 20% academisation rate in undergraduate degree programmes "in patient-oriented nursing science" in order to achieve a 10-20% penetration of academically trained nurses in the future (WR 2012: 85).