Anyone who is already studying the nursing profession at a university or wants to do so in the future can rejoice. On January 1, 2024, the Nursing Studies Reinforcement Act will come into force. This law regulates the remuneration for those who decide to study nursing or who are already studying nursing.
In the 2020/21 winter semester, the state of Berlin established a nursing degree course at ASH Berlin, Charité and EHB in order to expand the qualification opportunities for nurses and meet the increasing demand for nursing professionals. Until now, however, the course was almost impossible to study. The precarious financial situation of the students and the heavy burden of full-time study with long unpaid compulsory internships resulted in a high drop-out rate. ASH Berlin students, together with students from Charité and EHB, denounced these shortcomings as early as 2021 and have been calling for a sustainable financing model for nursing degree programs ever since.
With the new regulation on the remuneration of nursing students, the federal government is now finally taking active steps to significantly improve the framework conditions. Nursing studies are being restructured nationwide as a dual study program in close cooperation with practical institutions. Nursing studies take place at three very different learning locations: the university, the academic teaching institutions and the skills lab, each with their own very specific teaching and learning potential. Lectures and seminars, intensive training in the learning lab and assignments in the diverse areas of nursing care alternate and build on each other. In order to make the course, which is very dense in terms of content, manageable, from January 1, 2024, students will receive a monthly salary for the duration of their studies, which is based on the salary for vocational training.
"Nursing Student Day" on 8.12.2023 at the ASH Berlin
ASH Berlin, which will be the first of Berlin's universities to allow enrolment under the new conditions for the 2024 summer semester, is inviting students to "Nursing Student Day" on December 8, 2023. From 1 pm to 3 pm, events will be held at the university in Berlin-Hellersdorf to provide information about the nursing degree course . Those interested can also try their hand at three stations, pediatrics, geriatrics and wheelchair training. (Program at www.ash-berlin.eu/studieninfotag)
Prof. Dr. Katja Boguth, ASH Professor of Nursing Science with a focus on clinical nursing: "We are delighted that the shortage of skilled workers in the healthcare professions is no longer just being met with collective hand-clapping and warm gestures, but finally with secure funding in the form of a dual study program."
Lae Wohlkezetter, 4th semester nursing student at ASH Berlin: "We students are delighted that the commitment of those who have campaigned for this improvement is finally paying off - in the truest sense of the word! We can finally concentrate fully on our studies. We hope that there will be more demand for nursing studies in the future, because it is about nothing other than ensuring good nursing care for all Berliners."
Application for the 2024 summer semester
Anyone interested in studying nursing can apply to ASH Berlin from 01.12.2023 to 15.01.2024. The following partner institutions of ASH Berlin have already agreed to offer the dual study program in the future
- Vivantes GmbH
- Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin
- Stephanus Foundation
- Kaulsdorf Nord gGmbH residential care center
- German Red Cross Sisterhood Berlin
- Home Nursing Stolley GmbH
- Meyer & Kratzsch Berlin GmbH
Talks are currently being held with other institutions. For more information on the dual study program, please visit the ASH Berlin website or the website of the Dual Study Berlin umbrella brand.
If you are interested, we will be happy to arrange interviews with ASH Berlin nursing students for media representatives.
Contact:
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin University
Communications Department
Christiane Schwausch | Susann Richert
hochschulkommunikation@ ash-berlin.eu
Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin
Prof. Dr. Katja Boguth
Nursing degree program
boguth@ ash-berlin.eu