Digital language training for nursing staff

Foreign nursing staff should help to overcome the acute shortage of skilled workers. However, the basic prerequisite for this is good language skills. The following example shows how online language courses can help with successful recruitment.

Ewa has made it! As of today, she is allowed to work as a state-recognized specialist in nursing. She proudly presents her certificate. At home in Poland, Ewa had already been working as a nurse for several years until she was approached by a recruitment agency. Skilled workers like Ewa are desperately needed in Germany. In nursing facilities alone, more than 35,000 positions are currently unfilled nationwide. However, it is a long way from recruitment abroad, through the application process, language qualification and professional recognition, to permanent employment in Germany. In many cases, the employee’s place of residence changes several times. Many agencies therefore rely on digital and completely mobile accessible language courses.

LinguaTV offers a flexible and cost-effective solution for this: a training course tailored to suit specific requirements is put together from various modules according to the toolbox principle. The service includes both instructor-led lessons (e.g. in a virtual classroom) and multimedia self-learning courses with video lessons and interactive learning games. These modules can be booked either individually or in combination and are perfectly connected by a blended learning concept. In addition to the self-learning courses, personal learning support (coaching) is increasingly being booked as a third module. Particularly interesting for the recruitment of foreign specialists is the wide range of job-specific courses, which is constantly being expanded. If required, company-specific content can also be produced, e.g. in the form of a vocabulary trainer.

Back to our real-life example: nurse Ewa had very little knowledge of German at the start, so she received particularly intensive language training with one-on-one lessons in the virtual classroom and multimedia German courses in the LinguaTV app. Within a few weeks, this enabled her to make great progress. In order to prepare her specifically for her future job, she also received job-related training in the classroom in addition to general German lessons, for example with role plays on typical situations from the field of nursing. To improve her specialist vocabulary, she was also able to use a special vocabulary trainer course for nursing staff within the LinguaTV app. Thanks to this needs-based combination, Ewa has improved her language skills in no time and now feels well prepared for her new job in Germany.

Conclusion:

LinguaTV’s digital language training offers flexible and completely mobile solutions, which can be combined as needed and supplemented with job-specific content. As the practical example has shown, this can significantly simplify the recruiting of foreign skilled workers, be it in the field of nursing, but also in many other industries. For more information and a free consultation on the topic of "digital language training", please contact the education experts at LinguaTV.