PRO*PFLEGE (Nursing Ethics - Health Promotion - Professionalism) is a corporate health management (BGM) project to strengthen the resilience of nursing professionals in Rhineland-Palatinate. The project is funded within the framework of the future program "Health and Care" of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is located in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Transformation and Digitalization (MASTD) - Projects in the field of Occupational Health Management (BGM). PRO*PFLEGE is funded from November 2022 to December 2023.

From the MASTD press release: "With the PRO*PFLEGE project, a health education program for nursing professionals is starting 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," emphasized Labor and Social Affairs Minister Alexander Schweitzer. ..." You can find the full PM here

Financial supporter is also the Franziskus Foundation for Care

"The Franziskus-Stiftung für Pflege" acts under the motto: RECOGNIZE - PROMOTE - RESPOND. The Franziskus Foundation for Care was established on 28.11.2016.
The purpose of the Foundation is to promote the tasks of Caritas as an expression of life and essence of the Catholic Church, in particular, the communication of Christian values. This is done primarily through:
- The promotion of nursing professionals
- The promotion of the further development of the nursing professions in research, teaching and practice
- The promotion of professionalism within the health and social care system
- The recognition of current emergencies and the promotion of the development, testing and implementation of new offers of help." (Francis Foundation for Nursing 2022)

The concern of the PRO*PFLEGE project (Nursing Ethics - Health Promotion - Professionalism) as an intervention to increase the resilience of nursing professionals conforms to the foundation purposes of the Franziskus-Stiftung für Pflege. Therefore, the board of directors has gladly agreed to support the BGM project PRO*PFLEGE.

The implementation of the project is financially supported by the Rhineland-Palatinate Accident Insurance Fund. As an accident insurer, the Rhineland-Palatinate Accident Insurance Fund (Unfallkasse Rheinland-Pfalz) is very concerned to keep employees in health care facilities healthy and to support their ability to work. The preventive, health-promoting mandate of the accident insurers is anchored in § 1 of the German Social Code Book IIV. The accident insurance fund is happy to fulfill this mandate with the PRO*PFLEGE project.