On 4/13/2023, an article on the PRO*PFLEGE certificate course appeared, highlighting: 

"A new pilot course will address health in care. Among other things, it is intended to help people cope better with the challenges of everyday nursing care. Registrations for 2024 are already open."

de complete article can be read at https://www.hcm-magazin.de/neues-bildungsangebot-zur-gesundheitsfoerderung-fuer-pflegefach-personen-340566/.

Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 03.04.2023: There is a shortage of nurses throughout Germany. At the same time, nurses in the profession are exposed to high health risks. To ensure 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 Health Research Network of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society in cooperation with the Graduate School Rhein-Neckar. 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 conserve resources. Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH and cusanus träger-schaft trier mbH are the cooperation partners for the pilot course. They are providing participants for the first hour. The PRO*PFLEGE symposium in Ludwigshafen on 06.11.23 at the university in Ludwigshafen will conclude the pilot run.
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 carrying it out 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 Prof. Dr. Gunther Piller.
Detailed information on PRO*PFLEGE can be found at forschungsnetzwerk-gesund-heit.hwg-lu.de/forschung/propflege Pre-registrations for the second run in 2024 are already welcome.

You can download the press release here
 

The March issue of the chamber magazine contained two articles on PRO*PFLEGE

"Strengthening confidence - PRO*PFLEGE certificate course

Confidence and hope - as this focus shows - are not easy to achieve. Especially as far too little attention is paid in Germany to the mental stress in the nursing profession. Westpfalz-Klinikum GmbH and cusanus trägerschaft trier, together with the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the Rhineland-Palatinate Accident Insurance Fund and the Franziskus Foundation for Nursing, want to change this as part of occupational health management (BGM): with the PRO*PFLEGE (nursing ethics - health promotion - professionalism) training course run by the Health Research Network of the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society (HWG LU). It starts in April, consists of five modules and concludes on November 6 with a final event. All places are already fully booked for this year, but
can already be pre-registered for 2024.

The State Chamber of Nursing, the umbrella organization of nursing organizations and other professional organizations support the project. The Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland is an international cooperation partner. The certificate course is aimed at nursing staff working in direct nursing practice, as well as ward and residential area managers. Contents include professionalism, nursing relationships, challenging situations, ethics, supervision and health promotion." (S. 25)

"PRO*PFLEGE resilience project

The PRO*PFLEGE project was launched at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society at the end of 2022 as a health education program for nursing professionals. The aim of the project in the field of occupational health management is to strengthen the resilience of nursing staff. The state government is funding the Health Research Network's resilience project with up to 90,000 euros from the "Health and Care" future program. PRO*PFLEGE is also supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chamber of Nursing. The project will initially run until the end of 2023." (page 31)

Both articles and much more information about the nursing profession can be found in the  March 2023 issue of the chamber magazine

On Feb. 17, 2023, an interview by Anna Kiefer with Andrea Kuhn, PRO*PFLEGE project manager, appeared in the weekly magazine CAREkonkret.

Mainz, January 23, 2023
No. 010-2/23

The PRO*PFLEGE project launches a health education program for nursing professionals at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences. The aim of the project in the field of occupational health management is to strengthen the resilience of nursing professionals. The state government is funding the Health Research Network's resilience project with up to 90,000 euros from the "Health and Care" program for the future.
"Nursing professionals are exposed to great physical and psychological stress in their everyday work. Occupational health management and the prevention of physical and mental overload are therefore of great importance for securing skilled workers in the care sector. With our Skilled Workers and Qualification Initiative for Nursing (FQI) 2.1., we have already set important priorities in this area in order to support and maintain the health and ability to work of nursing staff. Our goal is to ensure that caregivers remain motivated and healthy in their jobs for as long as possible. Strengthening the resilience of nursing professionals is a very important approach here. The PRO*PFLEGE project of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences makes an important contribution to strengthening nursing in this regard," emphasized Labor and Social Affairs Minister Alexander Schweitzer.
"Studies show that professional ethical challenges have a considerable share in the development of psychological stress in nursing, but have been neglected so far. With the PRO*PFLEGE project, we are addressing precisely this issue. In the new combination of professional ethics, nursing expertise and health, the program strengthens the health of nursing professionals," said project manager Andrea Kuhn, explaining the triad of professional nursing actions. Strengthening resilience enables nurses to cope better with the challenges of everyday nursing care.
More information about the project can be found here.

You can download the PM here

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