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Description

In Bavaria, further training in nursing to become a facility manager, nursing service manager, practice supervisor and for gerontological psychiatric nursing and care is regulated within the Ordinance on the Implementation of the Nursing and Residential Quality Act and Further Training in Nursing and Midwifery (AVPfleWoqG). The advanced training courses serve to specialize in certain areas of nursing care in order to be able to maintain qualified personnel in these areas. On application, successfully completed modules of other further training courses or courses of study or comparable qualifications can be credited to the further training courses, provided that the contents are equivalent. This is checked by the Bavarian Association of Nurses (VdPB).

If you have completed comparable further training outside of Bavaria (in another federal state or abroad) for facility management, nursing service management, practice guidance and for gerontological psychiatric nursing and care, or have taken a comparable qualification elsewhere, an application can be made to the VdPB for the qualification to be equated (§ 57 AVPfleWoqG).

Prerequisites

The entry requirements for the respective further training are regulated according to §§ 71, 75, 79, and 83 of the Ordinance on the Implementation of the Nursing and Residential Quality Act and Further Training in Nursing and Midwifery (AVPfleWoqG).

Equivalent qualifications according to § 57 AVPfleWoqG

If they are comparable and have been successfully completed, the following further training courses are treated as equivalent to further training courses:

• Further training courses in accordance with the legal and administrative regulations of the Federal Government or the Länder.
• Further training courses in accordance with the recommendations of the German Hospital Association (DKG)
• Further training courses in accordance with the further training concepts recommended by the Bavarian State Nursing Committee. However, only if this was started on 01.09.2011.

The equivalence of the continuing education courses is determined by the VdPB.

Courses of study can only be equated with continuing education upon application by the university (§ 57 para. 3 AVPfleWoqG). The recognized further education institutions and equivalent study courses can be found on the homepage of the Association of Nursing Professionals Bavaria (see further links).

Procedure

The recognition is applied for online (see forms).

The required documents result from the further education to which an equivalence is to be made.

Deadlines

none

Processing time

Different processing times result from the case-by-case examination.

Required documents

• Required Documents:
  • Online application
  • Curriculum vitae
  • Professional certificate(s)
  • Further education certificate/s and certificates
  • Work certificate/s
  • Module handbooks on completed courses of study

Forms

• Form, Bavaria-wide: Antrag auf Gleichstellung einer Qualifikation zur Weiterbildung gemäß § 55 Abs.1, § 57 Abs. 2 oder § 58 AVPfleWoqG

  Please note

  This form has to be signed and sent to the responsible authority. You can sign the form manually and send it by email/fax or sign the form electronically with your qualified electronic signature an send it by (secure) email. If the responsible authority has set up a De-Mail account, you can also send the form by De-Mail using an sender-confirmed message.

Fees

• The costs for the recognition of equivalence depend on the scope of the examination and range from 50.00 to 250.00 EUR.

Legal bases

• §§ 53 ff. Verordnung zur Ausführung des Pflege- und Wohnqualitätsgesetzes und Weiterbildung in der Pflege und Hebammenkunde (AVPfleWoqG)

Links to more information

• Vereinigung der Pflegenden in Bayern (VdPB)
• Pflegekräfte - Fort- und Weiterbildung
• Weiterbildungsangebote in Bayern

Related issues

• Foreign professional qualification; advice on recognition
• Continuing education in nursing; applying for credit for modules or qualifications.