Module PF3701-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, interdisciplinary comprehensive nursing tasks
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing 2020, compulsory, interdisciplinary comprehensive nursing tasks

Classes and lectures:

• Quality management and health economics (lecture, 2 SWS)
• Case and Care Management (seminar, 1 SWS)
• Future Workshop Care (seminar, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 10 hours private studies
• 80 hours integrated internship hours
• 60 hours in-classroom work

Contents of teaching:

• Models of person-centred care
• Models and methods of case and care management: theories and research results
• Healthcare system in Germany: legal framework and structures for innovative care models, in particular with expanded/developed tasks and roles of the nursing profession; representation of the nursing profession in self-governing bodies and other healthcare policy bodies
• Financing of nursing services in the various healthcare sectors and areas of nursing care
• Central concepts, models and methods of quality assurance and quality management
• Role of guidelines, expert standards and other evidence-based knowledge resources for quality assurance and development
• Legal framework for quality assurance/management
• Quality indicators: definition, requirements, examples of care-sensitive quality indicators, critical evaluation
• Patient safety: terms, methods (examples, including scientific evidence), current debates and initiatives
• Guidelines, expert standards, and current QM-specific legislation (e.g., Hospital Reform Act), outpatient and cross-sector quality assurance, tasks and objectives of relevant institutions/facilities/organizations in quality management, quality management models
• Group work: Development and presentation of innovative care services (also in the sense of entrepreneurship) for needs-based care, including planning of implementation steps
• Current health and care policy and professional policy debates
• Professional career development/career paths for university-qualified nurses
• Staffing levels in nursing care
• Tasks, legal basis for supervision Nursing and residential care
• Fundamentals of Health Economics

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Knowledge enhancement: Students can describe and justify examples of innovative models for person-centred, multi-professional care for people with complex health risks or problems.
• Broadening knowledge: Students can define and differentiate between the terms case management and care management.
• Broadening knowledge: You can name and describe the tasks and processes of case management.
• In-depth knowledge: You will be able to analyse the legal framework of the healthcare system and the vocational training and practice of the healthcare professions in Germany with regard to the possibilities and limits of innovative, cross-sectoral care models with the participation or leadership of the nursing profession.
• Deepening knowledge: They can research available research results on the feasibility and effectiveness as well as the resource requirements of innovative care models and evaluate them appropriately with regard to validity and transferability.
• Broadening knowledge: Students can describe and differentiate between key terms, models and methods of quality assurance and quality management (including quality development and quality control).
• Broadening knowledge: You will be able to name essential legally defined requirements for quality assurance in the various sectors and areas of healthcare and nursing care and research the corresponding normative specifications.
• Deepening knowledge: They can describe examples of care-relevant quality indicators and their (potential) data sources, research and critically assess available data.
• Deepening knowledge: They can name examples of care-sensitive or care-relevant risks to patient safety and analyse these with regard to conditioning factors at the micro, meso and macro level of care. Furthermore, they can research suitable strategies for promoting patient safety with regard to these risks and critically categorise them in terms of validity and applicability.
• Understanding of knowledge: Students are able to critically reflect on the current social, legal and technological framework conditions of nursing care and the nursing profession against the background of available data on the quality and safety of care as well as scientific findings on the potential and limitations of alternative care models and to derive necessary changes that can also be influenced by their professional nursing activities and social commitment.
• Utilisation and transfer: On the basis of the knowledge content described, students are able to develop exemplary alternative models and offers of nursing care or nursing professional practice for the needs-based care of people in need of care with complex health risks or problems and to plan the prerequisites and steps for implementation. In doing so, they take into account the latest research findings and technological developments.
• Knowledge dissemination: Students are familiar with the key guidelines, expert standards, and essential QM-specific legislation (e.g., Hospital Reform Act) and can explain their significance for nursing practice.
• Communication and cooperation: You will be able to carry out the critical analyses and constructive solution developments described in small group teams (approx. 5 students), document the results and present them as a team. You will practise and consolidate methods and techniques of teamwork and reflect on challenges that arise in communication and cooperation.
• Academic self-image/professionalism. Students are aware of the potential of the competences they have acquired during their studies for responsible participation in the further development of the quality of nursing care and the tasks and roles of the nursing profession and are prepared to incorporate these competences into their professional activities and social commitment. They have a stable self-confidence in the nursing profession, which actively represents the social value of nursing within and outside the profession and critically reflects on their own positions as well as the opinions and positions of others and analyses them in a solution-oriented manner.
• In-depth knowledge: Students can identify key structural and economic determinants of specific care and support situations and derive consequences for the design of individual nursing practice or for any necessary adjustments to the framework conditions.
• In-depth knowledge: Students analyze processes of outpatient and cross-sector quality assurance and derive measures for improving the quality of care.
• Knowledge dissemination: Students describe the tasks, objectives, and interrelationships of relevant institutions, agencies, and organizations in quality management (e.g., MDK, G-BA, nursing care insurance funds, home supervision).
• In-depth knowledge: Students distinguish between key quality management models and tools (e.g., PDCA cycle, EFQM model, DIN EN ISO 9001) and evaluate their potential applications in different healthcare settings.
• In-depth knowledge: Students explain the principles and procedures of staffing levels in nursing (e.g., PPR 2.0, minimum staffing levels for nursing staff) and reflect on their impact on the quality of care and economic efficiency.
• Knowledge dissemination: Students are familiar with the legal basis, tasks, and responsibilities of supervising inpatient care facilities and outpatient services (“care and living”) and can derive specific recommendations for action from this knowledge.

Grading through:

• Oral examination

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn

Teacher:

• Institute for Social Medicine and Epidemiology - Section for Research and Teaching in Nursing
• Prof. Dr. phil. Anne Rahn
• Prof. Dr. Katrin Balzer
• MitarbeiterInnen des Instituts
• Anne-Marei Jarchow
• Maria Lindner
• Magdalena Scheytt, MScPH

Literature:

• See current module plan in the Moodle course :

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

01.10.2025