Overview

• Foreign nurses face an average wait of 500 days for qualification recognition in Germany, delaying their ability to work as skilled professionals.
• Approximately 11,000 trained nurses are restricted to working as aides due to bureaucratic delays, unable to perform tasks like administering medication.
• The bpa criticizes inconsistent recognition processes across federal states, with Bavaria cited as an example of faster procedures.
• Bernd Meurer, head of the bpa, calls on incoming Health Minister Nina Warken to amend the Nursing Professions Act for immediate deployment of qualified nurses.
• Authorities struggle with staffing shortages and procedural inefficiencies, compounding the crisis in Germany's overburdened healthcare system.