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 nursing professionals throughout Germany. At the same time, nursing professionals 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 Applied Sciences in cooperation with the Graduate School Rhein-Neckar. The PRO*PFLEGE certificate course covers, among other things, ethical and professional support, collegial counseling and supervision, prevention from violence and psychological stress, health promotion and relationship work, human resources development and occupational health management.
"Starting in April, we will provide nursing professionals in Rhineland-Palatinate with the new educational offering PRO*PFLEGE, which combines nursing ethics, health promotion and professionalism. Strengthening the triad of professional nursing action enables nursing professionals to better deal with the challenges of everyday nursing care, to strengthen their own health and to 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, takes place, distributed over the year 2023, resource-saving mostly online. Cooperation partners of the pilot course are the Westpfalz Klinikum GmbH and the cusanus träger-schaft trier mbH. They provide participants of the first hour free of charge. The expert conference PRO*PFLEGE in Ludwigshafen concludes the pilot run on 06.11.23 at the university in Ludwigshafen.
The project is financially supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Transfer and Digitalization (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 very pleased that the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences, namely 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 happily.
Detailed information about 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.

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In the March issue of the chamber magazine there were two articles on PRO*PFLEGE

"Strengthening confidence - PRO*PFLEGE certificate course

Confidence and hope - as this focus shows - are not easy to come by. Especially since far too little attention is paid in Germany to the psychological stresses 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 Care, want to change that within the framework of company health management (BGM): with the PRO*PFLEGE (Nursing Ethics - Health Promotion - Professionalism) continuing education program of the Health Research Network of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences (HWG LU). It starts in April, consists of five modules and concludes on November 6 with a closing event. For this year all places are already fully booked,
pre-registrations for 2024 are however already possible now.

The regional nursing chamber, the umbrella organization of the care organizations registered association and further occupation organizations support the project. The international cooperation partner is the Bern University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland. The certificate course is aimed at nursing professionals who work in direct nursing practice, as well as ward and living area managers. Contents include professionalism, nursing relationships, challenging situations, ethics, supervision, and health promotion." (S. 25)

"Resilience Project PRO*PFLEGE.

The PRO*PFLEGE project launched a health education program for nursing professionals at the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences in late 2022. The goal of the project in the area 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. PRO*PFLEGE is also supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate State Chamber of Nursing. The project is initially scheduled to 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 /fileadmin/user_upload/forschung-transfer/Forschungsnetzwerk_Gesundheit/Forschung/PRO_PFLEGE/PFL_2023_Ausgabe_32_ES_15.pdf.

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.

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