Unlicensed assistive personnel
The health and nursing assistants, formerly nurse assistant is a health care profession and a former one-year study of the subregion in the German health care. 2007, this occupation was replaced by the two-year training for nursing assistant.
Nursing assistants are part of the professional health care team and assist the nurses of health and nursing or child nursing at their tasks. Nursing assistants provide care activities in ownership or in consultation with the nurses, especially basic nursing tasks such as storage, assistance with feeding, toileting, monitoring, personal care, made beds and paperwork, documentation, employment services, home help and hygiene.
The two-year training occupation health and care assistant replaced since August 1, 2007 in some states, the former nursing assistant training. Colloquially referred to as nursing assistants, the graduates of the training programs for everyday companion in the dementia care in accordance with § 87b SGB XI, but they have usually attended a six-month training program with other priorities. In Switzerland, a significantly shorter training for nursing assistants is offered in Austria, there is a similarly structured two-year training, the graduates are also called nursing assistants.
Training
The two -year training course for health and nursing assistants to the knowledge, abilities and skills for the care of the sick, and the associated domestic help and other assistance tasks in station, function, and other areas of the healthcare provide (training target). The training usually includes more than 500 hours of theoretical training and over 1,100 hours of practical training in a hospital. At the end of the training a practical and oral examination will be held before a state board of examiners.
Students are given a training allowance at a level above about 750 euros per month.
This training is vocational politically controversial.
Since January 2004, the training is subject to health and nursing aide to state law, that is, each state decides whether the training is offered and how it is structured. Previously, she was regulated federally by the Nursing Act. Such laws exist in Baden- Württemberg, Bavaria, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Hesse, Lower Saxony, Rhineland -Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony and Saxony- Anhalt. In Berlin, Bremen, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and Schleswig -Holstein, the training is, however, no longer available or has been replaced by other designs.
In the states of Hesse and North Rhine -Westphalia has been around since 2006, a year of professional training as a " nationally recognized geriatric care helpers". The training essentially corresponds to the training as a nursing assistant.
In any case, the job title is protected and recognized nationwide, that is, also in the provinces, where no health and nursing aid training is offered, nursing assistants can be employed. Partially different job titles are used in the different states:
- Health and Nursing Assistant in North Rhine -Westphalia
- Health and care assistant in Hamburg ( two-year training )
- Nursing assistants in Hesse, Lower Saxony, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt
- Nursing assistants ( nursing) in Bavaria