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Brankica Rimac, master of nursing KBC Zagreb, Kišpatićeva 12, HR [email protected] Marija Matečić, Bachelors degree ICU Special Hospital for Medical Rehabilitation, Krapinske toplice, HR [email protected] WHO ARE REALY NURSE TODAY IN CROATIA? Nursing in Croatia has a long tradition since 1921 by establishing the first school for nurse assistant in Zagreb. In that time the education lasted two to three years, after completing the gymnasium. Over the past ten years, nurses have reached university education, on a rather trivial road. The multitude of challenges that appeared in front of the nurses enthusiasts were different, but the question to nursing students deserves special attention: "Why do nurses need the university level education?" When the Republic of Croatia applied for EU membership, the "Famous Directive" appeared, which gave a certain group of nurses hope that nursing will be aligned with the EU's nursing requirements, but nursing education was not harmonized with the directive. We „harmonized the Directive with ourselves. Today in the Republic of Croatia there are different levels of nursing education with certain fictitious competencies. In practice, they are all licensed nurses: those who have completed five years of education, those who have completed Baccalaureate degree, those who have completed graduate studies or at a university or polytechnic. All of these are nurses whose daily hospital work and obligations are intertwined in hospital settings, regardless of the competence and the price of work (salary). Nurses with a graduate degree also work in high schools and colleges, but in most cases they do not have adecquate financial compensation. Taking into account all levels of secondary school education (5 years or 3 years, to be more precise), Bachelors, graduate nurses or nurses with master degree? Keywords: Nurse, Nursing, Education, Competence, Congress Topics: Globalization in Nursing: Education, Migration, Workforce 24 |