Dipl. Pflegewirtin, RN Iris Meyenburg-Altwarg
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Biography
A veteran expert in nursing education, Iris has been a consultant for numerous projects and part of ENDA, WANS and STTI. After leaving her senior position at the Education & Training Academy at MHH (Germany), she now runs Com-P-Tense, an independent consultancy.
Positions
Director and Shareholder Com-P-Tense Germany GmbH
President European Nurse Directors Association (ENDA)
Personal information
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Featured in HealthManagement.org
2022 09 Nov
Interprofessional Competence Acquisition in Times of VUCA
Restrictions on educational offers in person and in the practical environment due to infection and other factors such as the current effects of war in Europe, the increasing shortage of skilled workers and ever shorter length of stay in the job, increasingly...
2021 19 Mar
Competency: Is It the Wonder ‘Drug’? Part 2
In the first part of this article (Berger et al. 2021), we started by defining competency and then discussed burnout, competency acquisition and the link between competency and retention. We also did a comparison between Europe and the United States....
2021 15 Feb
2021: Reset or Not?
As we move into 2021, and as the second wave of COVID-19 continues to rage, HealthManagement.org asked healthcare experts what they anticipate as the most significant change this year and what they would like to see in the future. Read on for a snapshot...
2021 15 Feb
Competency: Is It the Wonder ‘Drug’?
In the world of modern healthcare, especially since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the understanding of interaction between healthcare professionals’ burnout, morale and competence level is key to improving the quality of care and decrease staff...
2020 11 Aug
Night Service in the Intensive Care Unit of a University Hospital
This article draws attention to the extensive range of tasks and the stresses and strains during night duty in intensive care units. To this end, the range of activities of night duty nursing staff is presented using the example of the Hannover Medical...
2020 03 Aug
Conception of COVID-19 Auxiliary Hospital from Nursing Management Perspective
The following experience report describes the development of a Personnel Concept in the field of patient medical care for the operation of the COVID-19 Auxiliary Hospital at the Hannover Exhibition Centre. The focus of the challenge was the creation...
2020 11 May
Preparing Staff for Crises
Summary: Staff management during critical times can be and often is very challenging. Therefore, there is a need to learn new processes, acquire new skills/information and use new approaches. A veteran nursing expert talks about how...
2020 29 Jan
2020: Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
Summary: The World Health Organization designated the year 2020 as the ‘Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’ in honour of the 200th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. President of the European Nurse Directors Association explains why it is so...
2020 02 Jan
2020: Year of the Nurse and the Midwife
This New Year is significant for World Health as the World Health Organization (WHO) designated the year 2020 as the ‘Year of the Nurse and the Midwife’ in honour of the 200 th birth anniversary of Florence Nightingale. World Health...
2019 13 Nov
Resilience: The Airbag for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professions
Summary: Instilling an attitude of resilience in healthcare staff allows them to meet their challenges and effectively recover from setbacks. Every healthcare provider has to face a number of stresses and difficult situations when providing...
2019 26 Aug
Nurses and Cutting-Edge Technology
Summary: Modern nursing is a multi-layered field of work with increasing work density and complexity, which requires a high level of competence, resilience and commitment from the nursing staff. In numerous professional situations, nursing...
2019 22 May
Nursing on the Move: cross-border hiring
Addressing pitfalls and best practice examples for successful hiring Is it possible and feasible to successfully hire and integrate nurses from abroad into a relatively conservative environment? As a follow up to my previous article...
2019 22 Feb
Nursing on the move: cross border hiring
Addressing obstacles for successful hiring How to navigate the multiple challenges involved in making a cross-border nursing hire a success. People have always moved from their home countries to other countries in order to settle...