Austrian Health and Nursing Association
The Austrian Health and Nursing Association is a professional representation of nurses as an association with voluntary membership.
membership
The majority of the members are qualified nurses with three years of training, who in Austria are referred to by law as senior service . There are also nursing assistants with one-year training as members . There is also membership for the medical aid services . Nursing students can also be members.
The association was re-established after the Second World War
Lilli Petschnigg, Austrian welfare worker, midwife and nurse, attended the International Training School of the League of the Red Cross Society in London and then worked there in the headquarters of the World Association of Nurses. She then worked in Geneva in the League of Red Cross Societies and was sent from Geneva to Austria in 1947, which was still divided into four occupation zones, in order to rebuild the Austrian Nursing Association, which was banned and destroyed in the course of the annexation of Austria to Hitler's Germany. On April 12, 1948, the Association of Graduated Nurses and Nurses of Austria was re-established in Vienna. Marie Therese Strobl, then head nurse and later school superior at the Rudolfspital in Vienna, became president. Therese Fleischhacker, superior in Graz, became vice-president. Sister Superior Siegmara Bachmann became the representative of the nuns. There was a written reaction from the Austrian trade union federation against the establishment of a new professional representation of the nurses, with the opinion that the nursing profession already has an interest representation in the trade union federation and in the Chamber of Labor . The first annual conference with 350 participants was in Linz in September 1948. It was decided to form nine federal state associations. Student nurses were now able to join provisionally in their second year of training. A Nursing Act was unanimously passed by the National Council, which came into force on March 30, 1949. At the 4th International Congress of the World Association of Nursing in 1949, the first congress after the war, 2,400 sisters from all over the world took part, and the Austrian Association and the German Sister Community were again accepted into the World Association.
Interests of the association
The aims of the association are all matters of education and training and the rights and obligations of the professional profession within the framework of the relevant laws. Another goal is to participate in the development of international quality standards in the field of nursing and the establishment of nursing as a science at university level.
Association magazine
The magazine was started in 1948 under the name The Nurse , and in 1967 it was renamed Österreichische Schwesternzeitung . Today the association's newspaper is called Österreichische Pflegezeitschrift and appears monthly.
Individual evidence
- ^ Specialized Committee for Health Professions Specialized Committee for Health Professions of the Chamber of Labor and the ÖGB, accessed on October 9, 2009
- ↑ ÖGKV ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wir über uns / Chronik / 1945-1954, accessed on October 9, 2009
