title: Trauma nursing in the German health care system.
abstract: This article provides an overview of the history and current practice of trauma nursing in the German health care system. A description of nursing education, skills, duties, and responsibilities of the nursing workforce is complemented by a brief description of the trauma system. As current demographic developments, structural changes, and medical progress result in a rapidly changing health care environment, tasks for nurses are becoming increasingly complex. The development of academic programs and extended nursing tasks are expected to help manage the upcoming changes and challenges in the manifold processes of patient-centered-nursing-care delivery.
authors.affiliation: Nursing Division, Medical Center of the University of Regensburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Gertrud E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Nass
authors.forename: Rainer A C
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Kretschmer
mesh_terms: D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000266:history; D005544:Forecasting; D005858:Germany; D006676:History of Nursing; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D014194:Traumatology / Q000193:education / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000451:nursing*