For seven years, nursing execs were looking ahead to suitable qualification profiles and the important rules from the Ministry of Well being.
Vienna (OTS) – Accompanying and taking care of folks with a revolutionary, incurable and due to this fact life-threatening sickness in addition to taking care of their kin calls for particular talents and {qualifications} from certified well being and nursing execs (DGKP). The purpose is to give a boost to the standard of lifetime of sufferers and kin through fighting and assuaging struggling, ache and different disturbing occasions of a bodily, mental, social, cultural and religious nature.
The necessities for reaching those targets are complicated nursing, scientific – but additionally communicative, organizational and moral – wisdom that is going past the overall nursing level curricula. This contains forward-looking making plans to report and bear in mind the needs and wishes for the final segment of lifestyles (“advance care making plans”), participation in the usage of medicinal and non-medicinal treatments, recommendation and coaching for palliative sufferers and their kin, participation in complete multi-professional care making plans or enhance in coping with sickness, farewell, loss of life and demise.
In 2017, the Well being and Nursing Care Act (GuKG) used to be amended to take this larger want for necessities and {qualifications} under consideration and presented a specialization for DGKP within the context of hospice and palliative care (Segment 22b GuKG). The reasons to the legislation state that coaching and apply of the brand new specialization will simplest be imaginable “after the issuance of enforcing rules, together with the definition of qualification profiles.”
Introduced enforcing provisions lacking
“Seven years later, we’re nonetheless looking ahead to the issuance of the corresponding enforcing rules introduced within the legislation,” criticizes Dr. Michael Halmich, legal professional and ethics guide within the well being care sector, co-opted as felony recommend at the board of the Austrian Palliative Society (OPG): “To this point, centered coaching for this specialization has now not been imaginable as a result of, along with the enforcing rules themselves, the important qualification profiles also are lacking from the Ministry of Well being.”
OPG qualification profiles
Straight away after the GuKG modification got here into pressure, a operating workforce of the OPG evolved detailed “qualification profiles for the specialization of nursing in hospice and palliative care” and made them to be had as a foundation for dialogue. So as so to gain the desired {qualifications} outlined therein, suitable coaching alternatives can be important, which don’t seem to be but to be had because of the nonetheless lacking implementation rules.
The OPG is due to this fact calling at the accountable well being coverage makers to behave to create the stipulations in order that the specialization determined within the GuKG – and welcomed through the OPG – will also be carried out for the good thing about palliative sufferers, explains Dr. Halmich.
Groups with a top degree of qualification
In keeping with the standard standards of the Hospice and Palliative Care Fund Act, it is strongly recommended that no less than 50% of the DGKP in hospice and palliative care amenities must have a corresponding specialization in response to the GuKG along with their reliable coaching. However, an educational level as a Grasp of Science in Palliative Care or a related instructional qualification is really helpful.
The OPG welcomes the minimal quotas of required further {qualifications} for all reliable teams fascinated with care, as formulated within the high quality standards, says DGKP Manuela Wasl, MSc, 2d Vice President of the OPG: “Higher {qualifications} will make a vital contribution to bettering high quality within the advanced surroundings of hospice and palliative care.”
Inquiries & Touch:
Dr. Michael Halmich, LL.M.
Attorney specialising in scientific and well being legislation
Head of FORUM Well being Legislation, Vienna
Board member of the Austrian Palliative Society
halmich@gesundheitsrecht.at
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