VET in Practical Nursing

A Practical Nurse with the competency of Care and Rehabilitation for Elderly People enhances the client’s functional capacity in everyday life and promotes the social inclusion of the elderly and demented. Willingness to help and showing respect and interest in the well-being of others is important.

Good interaction skills, responsibility, creativity and the ability to solve problems as well as make decisions are important characteristics for a practical nurse. Good cooperation skills are also required since practical nurses work in a team. A practical nurse is able to work in professional interaction and in multi professional and multicultural operating environments. 

Typical workplaces for practical nurses specialising in elderly care are in home care, nursing homes, assisted living buildings, day centres, health centre wards, hospitals, dementia wards as well as geriatric and psychogeriatric wards. Their job may be found in the public, private or third sector.