The reform of the nursing professions that came into force in 2020 is having an effect. The number of applicants for an apprenticeship position has increased noticeably since then, according to the municipal company of the district of Würzburg (KU), under whose roof the Ochsenfurter Main Clinic and seven senior facilities in the city and district of Würzburg are operated. With its own nursing school, the Main Clinic now wants to use this positive effect to improve not only its own offspring, but also the overall nursing staff situation. The nursing school will start with 25 trainees per year at the start of the next training year. In the coming year a school building is to be built for around three million euros.
Nursing professions have become more attractive
As a result of the professional reform, the previously separate training courses in nursing, elderly and children’s nursing were combined into so-called generalist nursing training. With a professional qualification as a “nurse” or “nurse”, graduates can work in all nursing areas and no longer have to make an early decision about a field of work, explains the municipal company’s HR manager, Juliane Selsam. In addition to the greater flexibility, the EU-wide recognition of the professional qualification is another advantage of the new nursing training. “The reform has simply made the nursing professions more attractive,” says Selsam. This can be clearly seen in the number of applicants.
Before that, smaller hospitals like the Main Clinic in particular faced high hurdles when it came to raising their own offspring. The training was only allowed in hospitals with their own nursing school, says clinic manager Christian Schell. The Main Clinic was therefore dependent on cooperation, including with the nursing school in Scheinfeld. “We first had to look for vocational school positions before we could look after the trainees,” says Schnell. The distance between the workplace and the school location also made the training unattractive, which is why potential training positions remained unfilled.
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In future ten training positions per year at the Main Clinic
The number of trainees was too small for an own nursing school, Schell continued. That has changed with the vocational reform and the standardization of training. The Main Clinic plans to employ ten trainees per year in the future, says Schell, a good twice as many as the average in previous years. Another ten of their total of 20 trainees want to have the senior facilities in the district taught at the nursing school in Ochsenfurt. The remaining five school places are free for trainees from other care facilities.
The fundamental decision to found a nursing school was made two years ago, according to District Administrator Thomas Eberth. “Since then, there has been a consensus that nursing school is a good way to counteract the shortage of nurses,” he says. “It is not about recruiting nursing staff for the municipal company, but about the question of how we can strengthen the nursing situation in the region as a whole.”
Future school management prepares the start of lessons
Last year, the legal and organizational prerequisites for founding the nursing school had been created, says KU board member Alexander Schraml. In mid-November the government of Lower Franconia expressed its appreciation and thus created the conditions for state funding. The designated headmistress Dagmar Hetzel and the future teacher Claudia Hain started their work at the turn of the year. The nursing graduate and the nursing professions teacher are initially charged with preparing the teaching for the first year. In the end, the nursing school is to grow to three year classes, which are taught by four full-time teachers and a number of specialist lecturers.
The school building on the edge of the clinic premises is to be built in prefabricated construction and will cost an estimated 3.1 million euros. However, it will not be completed until the beginning of the training year 2022. The first year of the nursing school will therefore initially be taught in the rooms of the Ochsenfurt vocational school, Schraml continues.
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