The educational reform of nursing professions is a necessary consequence of socio-democratic change in our society and of necessary technical innovation of nursing processes. In the long run it serves to supply population with nursing care in accordance with their physical, mental and emotional needs. According to the statement of the chief of the medical care of the umbrella organization of health insurance in Germany 660.000 new beneficiaries have been approved during the first 10 months of 2017. The real world of nursing demonstrates that neither the outpatient services nor the nursing homes have sufficient staff to provide this additional work. This not only a question of quantity but at the same time a question of ability to meet the requirements resulting from innovation, digitalization and increasing of efficiency and effectiveness. The proposed project will focus on the exchange of knowledge, experience and examples of best practice regarding educational issues reflecting the above mentioned requirements. The exchange includes practical and labour market oriented training content of the curricula for the professions geriatric and health care nurse (Germany), nursing assistant (Austria) and hospital nurse (Poland). The focal points are a possible unification/standardization of basic education, the aspects of digitalization and the use of new technologies in nursing processes. The exchange will take place as a comparison of actual state, identification of potentials for the individual partners and the discussion of applicability of successful best practices and possible transfer to the respective other partner. A first assessment of occurring opportunities is also a part of project assignment. To achieve the objectives of the project partners of three European countries cooperate and act jointly. The transnational cooperation ensures that different experiences will flow into the work, various states can be compared, and an approach for a transnational, i.e. european, matter could be found.
The project requested focused on the exchange of knowledge, experience and best-practice examples on labour market development in the nursing sector and their impact on the training content. The exchange took place as a comparison of the current training content in the curricula for the professions geriatric nurse as well as health and nursing (Germany), nursing assistant and nursing assistant (Austria) and nurse / "Pilengniarka" (Poland). The labour market development towards nursing 4.0 was examined with regard to digitalization and the use of new technologies in the nursing processes and conclusions were drawn in relation to the resulting requirements for the training content and methods of teaching and learning. Selected processes such as the use of robots were discussed intensively based on the general conditions, the status of the introduction and emotional aspects in the triangle of nurses - patient - robot. Another point was the presentation and the exchange of experience on a new division of labour among medical staff and the associated new teaching and learning content, to which the new academic education also contributed. Presentations regarding the aforementioned topics were developed, held at the meetings and discussed with a reflection on one's own options for action. From the comparisons of curricula drawn in the exchange of experience, requirements of the current job market and perspective (care 4.0) and newly imparted knowledge and generated awareness of necessities, ideas were developed that resulted in a new project to be planned together.