Module PF1400-KP05

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each winter semester

Credit points

5

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, compulsory, social sciences
• Bachelor Applied Nursing (part-time) 2022, optional subject, for equivalence check
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, compulsory, social sciences

Classes and lectures:

• Introduction into the German helthcare system (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Introduction Law (lecture, 1 SWS)
• History of Nursing an Health Professions (seminar, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 90 hours private studies
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Social and health insurance systems in Germany, especially SGB V (statutory health insurance) and SGB XI (statutory long-term care insurance)
• Structure and organisation of the healthcare system in Germany (sectors, facilities, service providers, payers)
• Structures and organisational forms of nursing care in hospitals and other care settings (e.g. functional nursing, area nursing, reference nursing)
• Important legal framework conditions: above all the Nursing Act, the Elderly Care Act, personal, delegation and implementation responsibility in nursing care, confidentiality and data protection, relevant labour law provisions
• History of the nursing profession
• Current social tasks and roles of the nursing profession
• Professional policy developments and committees

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge enhancement: Students know and understand the basic structures of the health and social security systems in Germany and can explain the differences compared to the health systems of other countries.
• Broadening knowledge: Students are familiar with the roles and tasks of the various sectors, institutions and players in health and nursing care.
• Knowledge enhancement: Students know and understand the role and tasks of the nursing profession in the care settings of hospitals, outpatient care and inpatient long-term care.
• Broadening knowledge: Students know and understand important legal framework conditions for nursing work.
• Broadening/deepening knowledge: Students can describe the historical development of the nursing profession - also in distinction to neighbouring healthcare professions - in outline and name and classify milestones in the professionalisation of the profession.
• Use and transfer: You will be able to recognise the organisational and legal framework conditions to be taken into account in an individual care situation (low to medium degree of complexity) and to take them adequately into account in your own decisions.
• Communication and coordination: Students are able to formulate their own well-informed professional and health policy positions and defend them with arguments.
• Understanding of the profession: Students are able to critically reflect on and evaluate current health and professional policy developments against the background of legal and structural framework conditions and historical developments.

Grading through:

• presentation

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts
• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer

Literature:

• Simon M : Das Gesundheitssystem in Deutschland: Eine Einführung in Struktur und Funktionsweise Hogrefe, Bern, 2021, 7. überarbeitete und erweiterte Aufl.
• Janda C : Pflegerecht Nomos Verlag, 2023, 3. Aufl.
• Hell W : Alles Wissenswerte über Staat, Bürger und Recht. Thieme Verlag, 2024, 9. aktualisierte Aufl.
• Siefarth T : Aufbauwissen Pflege Recht Elsevier Verlag, 2023, 2. Aufl.
• Weiß T. : Recht in der Pflege. Lernen, Verstehen, Anwenden. Verlag C. H. Beck, 2020, 3. Aufl.
• Panke-Kochinke B : Geschichte der Krankenpflege (1679 – 2000). Ein Quellenbuch Mabuse, Frankfurt am Main, 2020, 6., unveränderte Aufl.

Language:

• German and English skills required

Notes:

Last Updated:

23.06.2025