[Professionalism in nursing education--considerations on university education for nursing teachers]

Professionalism in nursing education. Thoughts about higher education for nurse-teachers The current discussion about higher education for teachers of nursing contains various aspects such as those belonging to education policy, public health or didactics of higher education. The first step will be a report on the situation and the second step reintroduces a conception of teacher training. The first part of this essay contains politico-educational and educational considerations as well as those refering to a theory of professionalization. It gives a description of the alternative of college (Fachhochschule) or university training for teachers of nursing and its consequences on the training of nurses. The second part presents a conception for teachers training, which results from educational theory and refers to the theory of professionalization: the training process taken as a autopoetical process founded on relation.