Nursing management

Director of Nursing (PDL ) is a job title for a managerial position in German nursing homes.

Duties of a Director of Nursing

This is known in German nursing homes commonly the person who is responsible for the nursing service as a task area and runs as a nursing service line ( PDL). The nursing management thus bears the entire responsibility for the nursing service and executes it. She is a single professionally qualified person usually, but can also consist of a management team of several people. Functionally the nursing management is assigned to the middle management in many operational organizations. It is a link between nurse manager or department head (upper management ) and management ( top management ), the highest authority on all matters relevant to nursing. In large hospitals and care facilities of the nursing service manager is often referred to as a nursing director. The PDL is usually reports directly to the institution management or management and has the disciplinary and professional supervision of the nurses and nursing assistants on interns in the voluntary social year, about Bufdis ( voluntary social service providers ) and all other staff in the nursing service. You are responsible for the entire staff planning and control of their care range. These include human resource planning and workforce development. Select employees, set it to assess and promote it. Not everywhere exerts the PDL independent recruitment or redundancies from, but they are significantly involved in these decisions usually. The final coordination of internal training and continuing education activities and with external training providers, such as the (child) nursing school, the responsibility of the Director of Patient Care. In addition, it is their job, service plans, service instructions and work orders to create for the nursing staff. It is authorized to give orders directly to their subordinate employees. She regularly performs a substantive technical supervision and organizational disciplinary authority on behalf of the employer, such as the institution of a hospital, outpatient service or nursing home, from.

In addition to personnel management tasks Nursing Director at the quality assurance and control of finances are involved. As part of the quality assurance they develop nursing concepts, models of care set by design and quality management measures. In the finance and controlling, they expect, for example, care rates with health insurance from. They also provide budgets to write annual reports and monitor the budget. They act according to chance with also in the promotion of their facility. The remit of the PDL typically includes contact with the patients, their relatives, customers, residents, clients or employees, cooperation with other working areas of the employer and the cooperation with other external service providers, such as pharmacies, meals on wheels, doctors and therapists. Director of Patient Care be integrated to support the care, so that in the event of illness of employees or lack of skilled workers, to ensure the safeguarding of Vorsorgung

Prerequisite for access to the profession of nursing management

Access to the profession of nursing management is usually a degree in nursing requires either in the form of a university degree or as part of a Weiterbildung.Die Job Title Director of Patient Care or Nursing Director is not legally protected. The training for nursing services is subject to state regulations, there is but regulated only rudimentary. Developments are offered in Germany mainly by private educational institutions.

Care services, which carry in outpatient or inpatient care facilities as so-called trained nurse permanently responsible for the establishment, must according to § 71 paragraph 3 of SGB XI alongside the government 's audited financial statements as health and nursing or health and pediatric nurses or geriatric nurses have at least two years of professional experience in the respective nursing education profession have. In addition, two years of professional practice must not be older than 8 years ( before the start of the PDL training) and the respective PDL training must be a minimum number of hours of 460 Hours. The contents of a PDL training remains any private educational institution up to you. A nationwide audit of financial statements (such as the master craftsman ) does not exist in Germany.

Study

Because there are no uniform national training for the activity of a PDL in Germany, most employers prefer now only candidates who can demonstrate a completed college degree in nursing management. Various professional organizations, in particular the German Pflegerat for years strive for a mandatory academic university studies for the complex activity of a Director of Nursing.

Qualification profile

In 2001, about 50 percent of all PDL had completed a further education, 16 percent reported a college degree before. Among these, 16 percent were, however, not all managers graduates of the nursing management, but came from areas such as nursing education, or business administration. The situation in the new Länder differs from the old in the provinces, as in the GDR for decades existing courses of study for the qualification of nurses ensured a higher proportion of academically trained PDLs. In 6.2 percent of surveyed hospitals no PDL was used.

Gender distribution

Within the care, socio-psychological and system-theoretical analysis based on care for the elderly shown in careers of women and men in the elderly, about 85 percent of the employees are female. About 60 percent of management positions occupied by men. The male nurses benefited in particular from the typical woman in the domains karriereverhindernden factors for women, for example, the costs of their childcare time outs or the disproportionate number of women in part-time employment.

Merit

The content of a PDL is located in Germany on average about 3200 € to 3800 € gross per month for full-time employees (100 % point ). Depending on the size of the institution, there are enormous salary ranges, Director of Patient Care in university hospitals, for example, usually have a personal responsibility from 100 to 500 nurses. When working as a PDL on this scale salaries are negotiated tariff personally except between employees and employers and can be up to 6000 € gross per month. Between male and female executives, there is no significant difference in pay.

There are neither in nor out-patient in the inpatient area unique ( Germany uniformly ) regulated standards, such as nursing service management is remunerated or grouped. This is again due to the different companies and their cost rates, on the other hand at different existing or not existing collective agreements, as well as various factors that influence the classification ( size of the company, responsibilities and hierarchical structure in the company, number of subordinate employees, type of qualification or further training or study, duration of work experience, etc.).