Nursing: Association: Nurses are waiting for months of recognition for months

Despite personnel bottlenecks in nursing, thousands of well -trained nurses from abroad are waiting for their recognition in Germany for months. “The recognition proceedings take an average of 500 days, while people in need of care and their families desperately seek support,” said the President of the Federal Association of Private Providers of Social Services (BPA), Bernd Meurer, the German Press Agency in Berlin.

According to the association, around 11,000 trained nurses from abroad are not allowed to work as specialists in Germany for months of waiting for months. The BPA, with its approximately 14,000 member facilities of outpatient and inpatient care and other social services, determined this number for the “Correctiv” media house.

Many of these nurses – half of whom work in geriatric care, half in clinics – are currently only used as an assistant. For example, you should be able to walk or help food, but do not give any medication or maintain it independently.

“Focus on zealous stamping documents”

“Germany would have to receive every international force with open arms. In practice, however, there is anger and distrust in practice,” said Meurer. “Many responsible authorities are also overwhelmed by their own personnel bottlenecks.” The focus must be on supply security-“and not the eager to stamp certified document translations,” said Meurer. At the same time, nursing services and homes would have to cancel rows of seeking because the staff are missing.

The new government and the designated Minister of Health Nina Warken (CDU) must stipulate in the Nursing Association that those affected can be used immediately as specialists. Any necessary checks could then take place afterwards. Meurer only proposed this new regulation for those who can show at least three years of training and adequate language skills.

What could happen to faster procedures?

Today the authorities were different in every federal state. Bavaria has about comparatively fast procedures. When asked whether less thoroughness of the authorities could endanger patient safety, the BPA president said that many requirements are based on basic care. “Of course, the forces master this, but did not make it formally in the training courses in the country of origin, because the curricula there are much more tailored to the demanding specialist tasks.”

Destatis on future care needs in Germany