German nurse and healthcare workers staffing

Abstract

Continuing professional training is a significant part of modern Germany healthcare services and is often considered to improve care quality of the residents in their late years. To maintain and improve the quality of care in nursing home, German education system has different care training programs. This paper investigates the association between the type and the amount of continuing professional education and training of nurse staffing and care workers and their outcome variables. Cross-sectional data, from German Socio-economic data panel (G-SOEP) 2010 were used for analysis purpose. This dataset includes the household and individual information. Each individual 16 years of age or older in the household is surveyed for all partial samples (institutionalized households in both West and East Germany). The sample size of participants was 24481 in survey wave of year 2010. Data were collected using face-to-face interview and the computer assisted interview questionnaires had been used. In this survey data, the number of Nurses and Care Workers was 571. The multiple regression analysis was used to examine the association between independent and outcome variables.