As part of the "Future Tour - Innovation, Inspiration and Impulses" of the Ministry of Science and Health (MWG), State Secretary Dr. Denis Alt visited the HWG LU on 20 July 2021 to find out about the university's focus in the field of health and its broad portfolio of health-related courses.
Here you can find the corresponding 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, visited the Ludwigshafen School of Business and Health (HWG) today. On site, he informed himself about the health study programs that make Ludwigshafen a center of academic education in the health sector.
"The Ludwigshafen School of Business and Health has a strong profile focused on health and social services. It has developed into a center for healthcare courses in Rhineland-Palatinate," Dr. Denis Alt summed up. "As part of the academization of healthcare professions, it is making a significant contribution to the development in Rhineland-Palatinate. We want to create additional, highly qualified training capacities with the expansion of healthcare degree courses and meet the increasing demand for nursing specialists. This is the only way we can ensure nursing care in our state in the future."
University President Prof. Mudra said: "With its renaming in 2019, the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society has set a strong signal for its content and strategic orientation. We offer a wide range of study programs, especially in the socially highly relevant healthcare sector: in addition to the degree programs in Nursing, Nursing Education and Midwifery Science, we also offer business administration with the programs Health Economics in Practice (B.Sc.) and M.Sc. Health Care Management (full-time & part-time)."
The "Social and Health Care" Department at HWG Ludwigshafen comprises a total of five Health Sciences degree programs. In future, the Bachelor's degree course in Nursing Education will be converted into a consecutive Bachelor's and Master's degree course in Nursing Education, which will start after accreditation in 2022. There is also the dual degree program in Midwifery, which will be replaced by the Bachelor's degree program in Midwifery Science. This degree program will lead to state certification as a midwife and a Bachelor of Science degree. The degree program will start in the coming winter semester 2021/2022. In preparation and with a planned start in the winter semester 2022/2023 is the newly designed primary qualifying Bachelor's 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 previous training-integrated degree program. After successfully completing the degree, graduates will receive an academic Bachelor's degree as well as general professional recognition as a "nursing specialist". The range of courses is supplemented by the Master's degree course "Innovative Care Practice in Nursing and Midwifery".
From the coming winter semester 2021/22, the new dual degree programs "Midwifery Science" will start, which the Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society will offer in cooperation with practice facilities, clinics, freelance midwives and birth centers as the only location in Rhineland-Palatinate to date. The Ludwigshafen University of Business and Society has many years of experience in the academic training of midwives with the dual degree program "Midwifery", which has already been in existence for 10 years. In contrast to the previous study program, which is only aimed at midwives and trainees who already have a degree, the new dual degree program "Midwifery Science" is a primary qualifying degree program and will replace the "Midwifery" degree program in the medium term.
"The state has made sustainable investments in 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 earmarked for this in the state budget. In addition, a skills lab and simulation center will be set up in Ludwigshafen. As a first step, material funds of 380,000 euros have been made available for this in 2021," continued the State Secretary.
The newly created "Skills and Simulation Center" serves to teach the practical content of midwifery and nursing courses: demonstration and simulation models enable students to get a taste of practical work before they are instructed on patients in hospitals. This is an indispensable contribution to patient protection.
An existing consecutive Master's degree course in "Innovative Care Practice in Nursing and Midwifery" will help to ensure that the necessary training for young scientists can also be provided in Ludwigshafen as part of so-called cooperative doctorates.
Rhineland-Palatinate is strengthening healthcare degree programs and the academic training of nursing staff. Rhineland-Palatinate already established a total of seven new professorships in the field of nursing and health at the state universities in Trier and Ludwigshafen in 2019. In the 2021 Financial Department, an additional 2.5 million euros were made available for healthcare degree programs, including the nursing degree programs in Trier and Ludwigshafen. All with the aim of improving healthcare for the population.
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