Department of Nursing Science at UW/H welcomes the coalition agreement on the ‘Community Health Nurse’

The School of Nursing Science at Witten/Herdecke University (UW/H) welcomes the introduction of the "Community Health Nurse" occupational profile in the coalition agreement. In its draft of the coalition agreement presented yesterday, the coalition government affirms that the new government intends to create the profession of "Community Health Nurse" in Germany and thus expand professional nursing care to include curative activities. To this end, it wants to introduce a "general health professions act" and further develop the electronic health professions register. The coalition agreement also plans to strengthen the Prevention Act as well as primary and secondary prevention. The latter is a key area of activity for Community Health Nursing.

These plans are expressly welcomed by the School of Nursing Science, as they lay the foundations for the further development of the health care system, which is overdue and urgently needed. In recent years, the School of Nursing Science has already developed the Master's degree programme in Community Health Nursing, which was launched in the winter semester 2021/22. The aim of this degree programme is to develop the roles and tasks of the nursing profession in the context of primary care and to identify ways of implementing them. With the plans of the future government, it could be possible to both advance the necessary strengthening and further development of professional nursing and to reorganise healthcare provision. "As an innovative School of Nursing Science at Witten/Herdecke University, we are delighted to be making an important contribution to this redesign of our healthcare system with this degree programme," says Helmut Budroni, who helped develop the course.