Nursing school

Among nursing schools are understood educational institutions for learning of the nursing profession. There are both private and state schools of nursing.

Schools for health and medical care in Germany

The framework for the design of a state-approved schools for health and medical care are regulated in Germany in the Nursing Act. If the training in nursing is not regulated in the school law of a country further and was reintroduced in other types of schools ( for example, vocational schools for nursing ), they must be connected to a hospital or at least associated with, (eg through cooperation agreements).

In order to obtain state recognition schools must meet the following minimum requirements for health and medical care:

Moreover, each state government set up further regional regulations that determine the further to the minimum requirements. This can ( usually in the form of a country lyceum Act) relating for example to the school size and equipment, the mandatory application of a specific curriculum framework and the selection and definition of certain courses of study for obtaining any necessary top higher education qualification of the line or teachers.

Nursing Schools in Austria

In Austria the essential conditions for the operation of health and nursing schools in the Health and Nursing Education Regulation ( GuK AV) are fixed. Depending on the subject orientation distinction is made in

The director of a school for health and nursing holds the subject-specific and organizational management of the educational institution. There are also medical and scientific management, which serves in particular to ensure the quality of carried forward by doctors subjects.

Further specifications of the GuK AV include, inter alia, didactic principles and spatial minimum requirements. So must a school next to a sufficient number of classrooms, a library, kept in work, residence and social rooms binding on the teaching and specialist, residence and buildings for students, offices for administration.