With the reform of the Nursing Professions Act (PflBG) in 2020, universities in Germany were given the task of training nursing professionals at universities for the first time and thus qualifying them for the nursing profession. Accordingly, the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU) will be offering the Bachelor's degree course in Nursing (B.Sc.) for the first time from the winter semester 2022/2023. Prof. Dr. Joachim von der Heide, who has held the professorship for Nursing Science at the Department of Social and Health Sciences since February 2022, is in charge of the degree programs.
About the Nursing degree program:
The Bachelor's degree program in Nursing (B.Sc.) leads to two degrees in seven semesters: state certification as a nursing specialist and the academic degree Bachelor of Science. The program is aimed at people with a qualification for university entrance and an interest in studying nursing at a university. The full-time course is practice-integrated, i.e. theoretical and practical phases alternate. Students learn at the university, in a so-called skills lab and in cooperating healthcare facilities.
The degree programs are designed to be generalist, i.e. nurses are trained for all forms of process-oriented care: from paediatric care to nursing to geriatric care. The study programme is thus oriented towards international developments for academicized nursing. "The HWG LU is taking an important step towards the professionalization of nursing by establishing primary qualification degree programs in nursing. High-quality nursing requires a theory-based academic education in order to meet the requirements of the highly complex nursing professions and the responsibility in the field of public health," explains course director Prof. Dr. Joachim von der Heide and adds: "Students learn to transfer current findings from nursing research directly to their work with the people they care for, to question the common understanding of nursing and its theories and to find innovative solutions for complex, unforeseeable problems in nursing practice."
It will be possible to apply to start the course in the winter semester 2022/2023 from May 2022. The next online information events for prospective students will take place on March 15 and April 14.
Further information on the degree programs can be found at: www.hwg-lu.de/studium/bachelor/pflege
Personal details: Prof. Dr. Joachim von der Heide
Prof. Dr. Joachim von der Heide, 49, is a qualified nurse and studied Nursing Education at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen, now the Department of Social and Health Care at HWG LU, from 2001 to 2005 after graduating in 1996. This was followed by teaching positions at various healthcare and nursing schools, while Joachim von der Heide also completed a master's degree in human resources development. In 2011, he took over the management of a healthcare and nursing school and moved to Paracelsus Medical Private University Salzburg/Austria in 2014 as head of a dual Bachelor's degree program and the Master's degree program in Advanced Nursing Practice. In 2020, the Karlsruhe native obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Nursing Science. Since February 2022, Dr. Joachim von der Heide has been Professor of Nursing Science at the HWG LU and Head of the primary qualifying Bachelor's degree course in Nursing (B.Sc.).
Professional contact:
Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
Department of Social and Health Care
Prof. Dr. Joachim von der Heide
Professor of Nursing Science
Head of the primary qualifying Bachelor's degree course in Nursing (B.Sc.)
Tel. 0621/5203-550
Email: Joachim.vonderheide@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de
