There is a shortage of nurses throughout Germany. At the same time, nursing professionals are exposed to high health risks. In order to guarantee safe nursing care, it is important to keep them healthy in their profession. This is where the PRO*PFLEGE project comes in, which is being carried out by the HWG LU's Health Research Network in collaboration with the Graduate School Rhine-Neckar (GSRN). The PRO*PFLEGE certificate course includes ethical and professional support, peer counseling and supervision, prevention of violence and psychological stress, health promotion and relationship work, personnel development and occupational health management.
"From April, we will be making the new PRO*PFLEGE training program available to nursing professionals in Rhineland-Palatinate, which combines nursing ethics, health promotion and professionalism. Strengthening the triad of professional nursing action enables nurses to better deal with the challenges of everyday nursing care, strengthen their own health and contribute to securing nursing care," explains project manager Andrea Kuhn.
The certificate course is aimed at nursing professionals in direct nursing practice. The course, consisting of five three-day modules, will take place over the course of 2023, mostly online to save resources. Cooperation partners for the pilot course are Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH and cusanus trägerschaft trier mbH. They are providing participants for the first hour. The PRO*PFLEGE symposium in Ludwigshafen will conclude the pilot run on November 6, 2023 at the university in Ludwigshafen.
The project is financially supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Transfer and Digitization (MASTD), the Rhineland-Palatinate Accident Insurance Fund and the Franziskus Foundation for Care. Proven experts have been recruited as lecturers. As cooperation partners, they support the implementation and sustainable continuation of the PRO*PFLEGE certificate course. The Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland is an international cooperation partner. PRO*PFLEGE also receives broad support from the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chamber of Nursing, the Dachverband der Pflegeorganisationen e.V., the Bundesverband Pflegemanagement and the DBfK Südwest.
"We are delighted that the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society, in particular our Health Research Network, has been able to win over another important project in the field of health and care and is now implementing it for the benefit of nursing professionals. The PRO*PFLEGE project shows once again that Ludwigshafen is rightly a health focus of the state government," says University President Professor Dr. Gunther Piller.
Detailed information on PRO*PFLEGE can be found at https://forschungsnetzwerk-gesundheit.hwg-lu.de/forschung/propflege. Pre-registration for the second round in 2024 is already possible.
Specialist contact:
Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society
Health Research Network
Andrea Kuhn - Project Manager
E-mail: andrea.kuhn@ 8< SPAM protection, please remove >8 hwg-lu.de
Phone: +49 621 5203 244
