Contents of research practice and research interests: Practical education and training of nurses, practice guidance, theory-practice transfer, critical questions on academization, health economic issues in midwifery care, extended roles of nurses e.g. in terms of ANP / Community Health Care Nursing, questions on gender and caring in nursing and midwifery, aspiration and reality in nursing: coolout studies / nursing pedagogy, ethics of helping professions, professional ethics, education, pedagogy, health science.

Research projects:

• The theory of coolout and its significance for nursing education (completed) - Prof. Dr. Karin Kersting
• Formal and informal learning in continuing vocational training under the aspect of practical guidance (completed) - Prof. Dr. Armin Leibig
• Project E to the power of B - Care and Health (completed) "further information " - Dr. Doris Arnold, previously Prof. Dr. Ellen Bareis and Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Löser-Priester
• Needs assessment E to the power of B II - Nursing and Health (completed) "further information " - Dr. Hans-Ulrich Dallmann, previously Dr. Doris Arnold
• Open study model in the dual Bachelor's degree program in Midwifery (completed) - Prof. Nina Knape, (Ph.D.) and Imke Buß