aqP

Promoting and supporting the deployment of academically qualified nursing staff

The growing complexity of inpatient long-term care requires a broad range of qualifications in the nursing team. Academically qualified nursing staff (aqP) contribute valuable extended skills that can help to improve the quality of care. Nevertheless, clear structures and framework conditions for their targeted deployment are still lacking.

The current research project is dedicated to precisely these issues. Coordinated by the Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg, Furtwangen University is investigating the integration and benefits of the skills of aqPs in long-term inpatient care. First of all, the number of aqPs working in long-term inpatient care in Baden-Württemberg is being recorded. In addition, two selected long-term inpatient care facilities will be monitored throughout the project period in order to evaluate and optimise the process of implementing aqPs. A mix of quantitative and qualitative methods will be used to investigate the extent to which aqPs can contribute to improving the quality of care, which tasks and activities they take on and which framework conditions are required for this.

The aim of the project is to develop a comprehensive implementation concept that provides inpatient long-term care facilities with concrete assistance in integrating the qualifications and skills of aqP into the existing care structure.