The government now establishing a higher education at diploma level for nurses. The program focuses on chronic patients, elderly medical patients and coherent patient.

We live longer, and in 2050 approximately 24 percent of Danes to be + 65. At the same time more patients have several diagnoses and chronic conditions. National Institute of Public Health estimates that the number of chronically ill patients will increase to approximately two million Danes in 2020. Against this background, the Government will establish a new tertiary education with strong clinical anchoring at diploma level for nurses. The program complements the eksistende continuing training effort and helps to strengthen the skills for including treatment of elderly medical patients and chronic patients. In addition, nurses trained to ensure coherent patient across sectors and stakeholders in health care. "The desire for the new training was one of the very first, the rapporteurs from the Liberals and Conservatives argued for me as new Interior and Health. I am very pleased that it is now becoming a reality for the benefit of the many chronic patients. The program is also a great acknowledgment of practical and clinical training elements and a contribution to the future function creep, "said Interior and Health Bertel Haarder. Education Minister Troels Lund Poulsen also welcomes the new training. "It is an offer for nurses who want to continue learning in an important area with a growing need for specialized labor. At the same time, I hope that this training - as well as the many other opportunities to pursue education and careers in the nursing profession - can help to attract even more talented students to nursing education, "says Troels Lund Poulsen. The program is organized so that included both theoretical instruction and clinical instruction. The theoretical modules retrieved from the formal continuing education, ie diploma system while the clinical training takes place in the same manner as the clinical training of existing specialist training for nurses. Parallel to that students begin training, entrepreneurship Ministry of Education hedges against the possibility that health professional diploma programs can contain both theoretical and clinical training modules with ECTS points, with a view to further training, if appropriate, may be included in a new diploma system. It is expected that the first students can begin the program in January 2012. Source: UVM.dk