Nursing school
A nursing school , today also a health and nursing school , historically a nursing school (because of the job title nurse ), is a vocational school for training in certain nursing professions . There are both private and government nursing schools.
Schools for health and nursing in Germany
The framework conditions for the design of a state-recognized school for health and nursing are regulated in Germany in the Nursing Act. If the training in nursing is not further regulated in the school law of a country and has been established at other types of schools (e.g. vocational schools for nursing ), these must be attached to a hospital or at least be connected to it (e.g. through cooperation agreements ).
To gain state recognition, schools for health and nursing must meet the following minimum requirements:
- Full-time school management by a suitably qualified specialist with a university degree,
- Proof of a sufficient number of technically and pedagogically qualified teachers with a corresponding university education for theoretical and practical lessons in relation to the number of training places,
- Provision of the rooms and facilities required for the training as well as sufficient teaching and learning materials,
- Ensuring the implementation of practical training in accordance with the training and examination regulations for professions in nursing (KrPflAPrV) with appropriate facilities (including hospitals , outpatient nursing services ).
In addition, each state government can set up further state legal regulations that determine the details of the minimum requirements. This can relate, for example, to the size and equipment of the school (usually in the form of a state educational institution law ), the binding application of a certain framework curriculum and the selection and definition of certain courses of study to achieve the higher education qualification required by the management or teaching staff.
Health and nursing schools in Austria
School for Health and Nursing / Health and Nursing School (GKPS / GuKPS) special form |
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Country | Austria |
Type of school (general) | Nursing school |
ISCED level | 3 |
Classification (national) | Vocational schools / Other vocational schools ( statute ) / Schools and academies of the health system / Training in the higher service for health and nursing (2944.1–3 ff) |
requirement | 17/18 years |
Duration | 3 years Levels : 11–13 (1st – 3rd grade) Standard age 15–18 |
Graduation | Diploma examination |
Types | general GuKP; psychiatric GuKP; Child and youth care; several special trainings |
number | 65 (2016, approx.) |
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In Austria, the essential framework conditions for the operation of health and nursing schools are laid down in the Health and Nursing Training Ordinance (GuK-AV). Depending on the professional orientation, a distinction is made between
- School of General Health and Nursing
- School of Mental Health and Nursing
- School for child and youth care
The qualification reads qualified [psychiatric] health and nurse / qualified [psychiatric] health and nurse or qualified pediatric nurse. The training lasts 3 years and ends with a diploma examination (the only one in the school sector in Austria).
There are special training courses
- in intensive care
- in anesthesia care
- in the care of renal replacement therapy
- for the operation area ( nurse / nurse)
- for hospital hygiene
These are each 1 year, as well as further training in general health and nursing care in the other two forms.
All of the 65 schools are run by public hospitals , including some religious hospitals ; a few other providers ( WIFI , BFI , private) train in association with hospitals.
The director of a school for health and nursing is responsible for the technical and organizational management of the educational institution. In addition, there is also the medical-scientific management, which serves in particular to ensure the quality of the subjects taught by doctors.
Further specifications of the GuK-AV include a. Basic didactic principles and minimum spatial requirements. In addition to a sufficient number of classrooms, a school must have a library, work, common and social rooms for teachers and specialists, common and social rooms for the pupils and rooms for administration.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Austrian school system , status 2015/16
- ↑ a b Qualified health and nurse / qualified health and nurse AMS vocational lexicon ,
- ↑ a b c d Schools for Health and Nursing , Austrian Health and Nursing Association (on oegkv.at; link to list, pdf).