Qualifications mix in in-patient nursing

The aim of having combinations of different qualification levels (qualifications mix or grade mix) within a nursing team is to match the qualifications held by nursing staff to existing nursing requirements in the best possible way. At the same time, this facilitates better exploitation of the potential offered by young people with different general school leaving qualifications within the nursing profession. A research project funded by the Norddeutsches Zentrum zur Weiterentwicklung der Pflege (NDZ) [North German Centre for the Further Development of Nursing] is looking at tasks and general institutional conditions relating to the deployment of nursing assistants in the hospital sector.