«Nursing qualifications» - final report highlights challenges

In the care sector, specialists with different qualifications must collaborate at various levels to ensure high-quality healthcare provision. In view of wide-ranging technological, social and economic changes, nursing qualifications must be continually developed on the basis of a consistent overview of the vocational field to ensure the healthcare system can meet the challenges that lie ahead. 

The Swiss Observatory for Vocational Education and Training OBS SFUVET – in collaboration with internal and external partners – has produced a final report on the project on behalf of OdASanté. The report outlines the findings from the various project phases for future (further) development of nursing qualifications. It contains the following proposals:

• Training on inter-sectoral care skills at all learning locations for all nursing qualifications;
• Coordinated training on inter-professional collaboration and task-sharing for the various nursing qualifications at all learning locations;
• Analysis and addressing of discrepancies established between training capabilities and the actual tasks performed at various levels;
• Assessment and improvement of the permeability of educational pathways within professional education and training (PET) and between PET and university of applied sciences programmes.

SFUVET wishes to thank OdASanté for awarding it the valuable project and the Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation SERI for its financial support of the project.

More detailed information and results can be found on the project page “Nursing qualifications” and in the final report (in German / French).