Vocational students in Starnberg take the first hurdle

Created: 05/11/2022, 14:19

Nursing manager Manuela Meiler (back, 5th from right), the central practice instructors and the teaching team around headmistress Daniela Matzke (back, 5th from left) are happy that their protégés passed the probationary period.

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Starnberg - The first six months are over.

All students at the vocational school for nursing in Starnberg pass the probationary period.

“We work with very nice and open-hearted people here.

The practice is just as much fun as the theory, because it's a very varied job," says Elisa Walker, who started her training as a nursing specialist six months ago at the vocational school for nursing at the Starnberg clinics and recently, together with her colleagues Colleagues of the 21/24 class could be happy about the passed probationary period.

"Six months of training are over, two and a half years are still ahead of the trainees - the first milestone has been reached and even the small successes have to be celebrated properly," emphasized Nursing Director Susanne Müller. 

About dealing with and communicating with sometimes seriously ill people

The students have already completed three theoretical blocks and gained insights into different situations in which the nursing aspects of people of all ages with different clinical pictures were taken into account.

"Through competence orientation and exemplary learning, our students should achieve a high level of transferability," explains Headmaster Daniela Matzke.

An essential part of the theoretical content includes the job-specific working method of the nursing process with nursing diagnoses as well as the evaluation and development of the quality of nursing - tasks that are reserved for nurses with the professional title of nursing specialist.

"In addition, the students gained insights into how to deal with and communicate with people, some of whom are seriously ill," 

Students do excellent work

In the practical block, it was then a matter of applying what they had learned on the wards of the clinic – supported by qualified specialists and the central practical instructors.

“The students have done an excellent job so far,” praises the headmistress.

The syllabus drawn up in the run-up to the start of general studies last year has also proven its worth and has also been continuously developed.

Incidentally, thanks to a close-meshed hygiene concept, lessons are again being taught in person, "which the students are very happy about," says Matzke and emphasizes: "With the generalist training, our students have future-proof and attractive prospects, because after the three years they have many professional opportunities Ways open."

The qualification, which is recognized throughout the EU, enables qualified care from infants to the elderly, not only in clinics, but also in the outpatient area and in inpatient short- or long-term care.

"It's particularly nice for us when we see that our students develop further during their training and grow with the tasks," says Matzke.

"The corona pandemic has once again revealed the great responsibility of nursing staff for the life and health of society."