Austria – Higher education services – "#Nurses4Vienna2" Open-House Admission Procedure

Since 2008 FH Campus Wien has been educating health care and nursing professionals in accordance with state-of-the-art university standards for upper-level service for health care and nursing in a Bachelor's degree program. For many years, this program has been provided in cooperation with Wiener Gesundheitverbund (Vienna Healthcare Group) as well. The Vienna Healthcare Group is Austria's largest health care provider, operated by the City of Vienna, and includes 8 clinics and 9 nursing homes in Vienna as well as one therapy center outside of Vienna. Some 30,000 employees work for the Vienna Healthcare Group. Due to the upcoming retirement wave and the current shortage of health care professionals in Europe covering the staffing requirements in upper-level health care and nursing in Vienna entirely from the pool of graduates of the existing Bachelor programs in the coming years will not be possible. In order to reduce the shortage of professionals and fulfill its care mission, the Vienna Healthcare Group and FH Campus Wien have jointly developed the "#Nurses4Vienna" training and funding program for health care and nursing professionals that have undergone tertiary training in third countries (countries which are neither Member States of the European Union nor part of the European Economic Area). The objective of this training and funding program is a coordinated and socially acceptable process for recruiting health care and nursing professionals who have completed tertiary training in third countries, in line with the World Health Organization's "Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel", and to provide profound vocational training in Austria in that field to prepare those who participate in the program for working in upper-level service for health care and nursing with the Vienna Healthcare Group. In addition to professional training the focus is on social and language integration. The Vienna Healthcare Group and FH Campus Wien...