On-site and remote lecture
Prof Martin Südmeyer is the deputy director and head of the Neurological Clinic of the Ernst von Bergmann Hospital in Potsdam and an adjunct professor at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf.
Dr Odette Fründt is an assistant doctor in the Neurological Clinic of the Ernst von Bergmann Hospital, Potsdam, Germany.
The complexity of chronic neurologic diseases increasingly requires personalised, interdisciplinary healthcare structures. Focusing on Parkinson’s disease (PD), this talk highlights that especially the (outpatient) nursing staff plays a key role in PD patient care with multiple interactions of this professional group with patients, relatives and other health care providers. However, the current Care4PD study as well as German but also international data, showed an undersupply of nursing care for PD and lack of knowledge on PD-relevant issues amongst this occupational group, especially in professional long-term care facilities such as nursing homes or outpatient mobile nursing services.
Thus, nursing staff should be trained more intensively on PD-relevant aspects and should be more involved in fundamental healthcare issues – optimally integrated in cross-sectoral, multidisciplinary teams. Therefore, a rethinking and reorganisation at individual and structural levels is necessary. The talk will give an overview on special activities in Germany that aim to reorganise nursing care for PD. Concrete examples are given, such as the work of different PD networks or the currently developed task force “nursing care” of the German Association for Neurology (DGN). Finally, such optimised healthcare structures as planned for PD could serve as models of neurologic or non-neurologic diseases.
As the meeting room has a small capacity, please drop an email to Bianca Dragomir (Bianca.dragomir@lih.lu) for on-site registration.