As part of the "Future Tour - Innovation, Inspiration and Impetus" of the Ministry of Science and Health (MWG), State Secretary Dr. Denis Alt visited HWG LU on July 20, 2021, to learn on site about the university's focus in the field of action of health and its broad portfolio of health-related study programs.
Here you can find the related press release of the MWG from 20.07.2021:
HWG Ludwigshafen: University with a strong profile in health and social services.
Dr. Denis Alt, State Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Health, today visited the University of Applied Sciences for Business and Health (HWG) in Ludwigshafen. On site, he learned about the health degree programs that make Ludwigshafen a center of academic education in the health sector.
"The University of Applied Sciences for Business and Health in Ludwigshafen has a strong profile oriented toward health and social services. It has become a center for health degree programs in Rhineland-Palatinate," Dr. Denis Alt summed up. "As part of the academization of the health professions, it is making a significant contribution to the development in Rhineland-Palatinate. We want to create further, highly qualified training capacities with the expansion of the health study courses and meet the increasing demand for nursing specialists. Only in this way can we ensure the provision of nursing care in our state in the future."
Statement University President Prof. Mudra: "The Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society has set a strong signal for its content and strategic orientation with its renaming in 2019. Especially in the socially highly relevant health sector, we offer a wide range of degree programs: in addition to degree programs in nursing, nursing education and midwifery, we also offer degree programs in business administration with the programs Health Economics in Practice (B.Sc.) and M.Sc. Supply Management in Health Care - Health Care Management (full- &part-time)."
The "Social and Health Care" department at HWG Ludwigshafen comprises a total of five degree programs in the health care field. In the future, for example, the bachelor's degree program in nursing education will be converted into a consecutive bachelor's and master's degree program in nursing education, which will start in 2022 after accreditation. In addition, there is the dual degree programs in "Midwifery", which will be replaced in the future by the bachelor's degree program in "Midwifery Science". With this degree program, the state license as a midwife and the academic degree Bachelor of Science are acquired. The degree program will start in the upcoming winter semester 2021/2022. In preparation and with a planned start in the winter semester 2022/2023 is the newly designed primary qualifying bachelor degree program "Nursing", which will replace the existing dual degree program. The primary qualifying bachelor's degree program "Applied Nursing Sciences" will start in the winter semester 2021/22 as a seven-semester program and will replace the existing training-integrated degree program. Upon successful completion of the Degree, graduates will receive an academic Bachelor's degree as well as generalist professional recognition as a "Nursing Specialist". The range of courses is supplemented by the master's degree program "Innovative Care Practice in Nursing and Midwifery".
Starting in the upcoming winter semester 2021/22, the new dual degree program "Midwifery Science" will be offered by the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society in cooperation with practice facilities, clinics, freelance midwives and birth centers as the only location in Rhineland-Palatinate to date. With the dual degree programs "Midwifery", which have already existed for 10 years, the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society has many years of experience in the academic training of midwives. In contrast to the previous degree program, which is only aimed at midwives who are already certified and trainees, the new dual degree program "Midwifery Science" is a primary qualifying degree program and will replace the degree program "Midwifery" in the medium term.
"The state has made sustainable investments at the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society. With the 2019/2020 and 2021 Financial Departments, Ludwigshafen has received four new professorships and four new staff positions for midwifery science. Additional personnel funds of around 650,000 euros per year have been budgeted for this in the state budget. In addition, a skills lab and simulation center will be established in Ludwigshafen. As a first step, material resources of 380,000 euros have been made available for this in 2021," continued the State Secretary.
The newly created "Skills and Simulation Center" will serve to teach practical midwifery and nursing courses: Demonstration and simulation models will enable students to gain an introduction to practical work before they are instructed on patients in hospitals. This is an indispensable contribution to patient safety.
An existing consecutive master's degree program in "Innovative Care Practice in Nursing and Midwifery" will in perspective help to ensure that the necessary training of young scientists can also be provided in Ludwigshafen within the framework of so-called cooperative doctorates.
Rhineland-Palatinate is strengthening health degree programs and the academic training of nursing staff. In 2019, Rhineland-Palatinate has already established a total of seven new professorships in the field of nursing and health at the state universities in Trier and Ludwigshafen. In the 2021 Financial Department, another approximately 2.5 million euros were made available for health degree programs, including nursing degree programs in Trier and Ludwigshafen. All this with the aim of improving healthcare for the population.
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