Professionally Supporting International Trainees – Promoting Integration – Successfully Shaping Vocational Training

Diversity in nursing education is growing. Practice instructors increasingly support trainees with different cultural backgrounds, educational biographies and language skills. This diversity offers opportunities, but it also places new demands on practical instruction.

This 24-teaching-unit mandatory continuing education provides practical strategies for supporting international trainees in an appreciative, culturally sensitive and legally sound way. The focus is on concrete courses of action for everyday training as well as on sharing your own experiences.

Day 1 – Understanding international trainees

• Arriving in Germany – challenges and resources
• Culture and values in nursing
• Intercultural communication
• Recognising language barriers and providing professional support

Day 2 – Making practical instruction a success

• Role understanding and role conflicts
• Different learning and working cultures
• Giving feedback and conducting difficult conversations
• Language-sensitive instruction in everyday nursing

Day 3 – Confidence in everyday professional practice

• Resolving conflicts professionally
• Using diversity as a resource
• Working through practical cases
• Transfer into your own field of work