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Berlin – A nursing assistance law is intended to create an independent and nationwide professional profile for nursing assistance. This is the result of a draft law by the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth (BMFSFJ) and the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG).

In view of the growing number of people in need of care in the future and the existing shortage of nursing staff, the potential of a quality-assured qualification mix in nursing cannot be dispensed with, says the draft, which is submitted to the German Medical Journal is present.

Among other things, the possibility of nationwide mobility should be strengthened and clear development paths for further qualification as a nursing specialist in accordance with the Nursing Professions Act should be developed. The recognition regulations for foreign professional qualifications should also be regulated uniformly across the country.

In addition, a “reasonable training allowance” guaranteed by federal law is to be introduced. In addition, a generalist orientation should give graduates access to all areas of care, as is the case with generalist nursing training.

However, it is still unclear whether this should take place within the framework of an 18-month “nursing assistant training” or alternatively within the framework of a 12-month “nursing assistant training”.

As things stand, the draft law contains both job titles and training periods – for the government draft, a decision between the two versions is to be made “on the basis of the feedback in the participation process”. The financing of the training is to be ensured by setting up training funds at the state level, analogous to the Nursing Professions Act.

The additional costs of the planned regulations are estimated in the draft law for statutory health insurance (GKV) at a total of around 220 million euros per year of training. © aha/aerzteblatt.de