German Society for Specialized Nursing and Functional Services
| German Society for Specialized Nursing and Functional Services (DGF) |
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| purpose | Promotion of basic, advanced and advanced training for professional technical care and technical assistance |
| Chair: | Lothar Ullrich |
| Establishment date: | 1974 |
| Seat : | Gütersloh (Office: Berlin) |
| Website: | www.dgf-online.de |
The German Society for Specialized Nursing and Functional Services eV (DGF) is a German professional association for health workers and nurses with the aim of promoting advanced training in specialist nursing . It was founded on October 26, 1974 by the founding and later honorary chairwoman Therese Valerius in Mainz and has been a registered , non-profit association since the beginning of 1975 .
She is a member of the German Nursing Council , the European Federation of Critical Care Nursing Associations (EfCCNa) and the International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists (IFNA) and offers an additional membership in the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI) with which she works together.
History and goals
The founding history of the association is closely linked to the development of advanced training to become a specialist nurse for intensive care and anesthesia . With the advancement of intensive care medicine and anesthesiology , demands arose from the participating doctors for targeted further training for nurses in these areas.
Corresponding offers already existed in Scandinavian countries, the United States and Switzerland at the beginning of the 1960s. In Germany, clinics in Munich and Freiburg and the Bundeswehr Central Hospital in Koblenz carried out the first anesthesia courses for nurses. Therese Valerius, head nurse at the Mainz University Clinic , had found out about such courses abroad and began with the anesthesiology professors Miklós Halmágyi and Hans Nolte in Mainz in 1964 to carry out the first systematic specialist training lasting two years. In 1966, the first seven female graduates took their final exams there. In 1972 she opened a further training course at the same hospital under the title "Anesthesia and Intensive Therapy", which corresponded to the recommendations of the German Society for Anesthesia and Resuscitation (DGAW) at the time.
The German Society for Specialized Nursing was subsequently founded in 1974 as a representation of interests independent of medical associations and trade unions with the aim of introducing further specialist training throughout Germany. At the end of the 1990s she played a major role in the revision of the DKG recommendation for further training of nurses in intensive care . In 2004 the name of the association was supplemented by the word “functional services” and the DGF's claim to representation was expanded. Today it extends to specialist nursing in other areas such as B. oncology , surgical nursing and, if not primarily, nursing in psychiatry .
The DGF is active in professional policy at ministries and specialist committees and makes demands with regard to the improvement of working and further training conditions, collective bargaining and staffing in specialist nursing.
Information for members
The association initially subscribed for its members, the magazine 's sister, the nurse and gave four times a year a newsletter out, which later appeared in booklet form and in the magazine in 2001 intensively opened.
literature
- Therese Valerius: From the life of a nurse . Frieling-Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-89009-532-1 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e 30 years of the German Society for Specialized Nursing and Functional Services eV, keynote lecture by Dieter Bassauer on June 24, 2005 at the 2nd European Anesthesia Care Congress in Weimar. Retrieved January 30, 2012 .
- ↑ a b c Angelika Abt-Zegelin (Ed.): Focus: Intensive Care: Nursing-scientific findings on Critical Care Nursing, p. 279 ff. Schlütersche Verlagbuchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 978-3-89993-108-2 . Online: limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Lothar Ullrich, Dietmar Stolecki, Matthias Grünewald (eds.): Thiemes Intensive Care and Anesthesia, p. 6 . 1st edition. Georg Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-13-130910-5 . Online: limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ a b Homepage of the DGF: Goals. Retrieved February 23, 2012 .
- ↑ Stephanie Amberger, Sibylle C. Roll: Psychiatriepflege und Psychotherapie, p. 204 . Thieme Verlag, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-13-148821-3 . Online: limited preview in Google Book search
- ^ Bulletin of the DGF at the German National Library. Retrieved January 27, 2012 .