Nurses are needed in different industries, not only in classical hospitals(although it is still a favorite employment place).
The most typical place where nurses work in Germany is hospitals and clinics. They have modern facilities, good infrastructure, a work council which protects employees, regulated working hours, and the best wages for nurses.
Germany has 1.5 million people over 90 years old and millions of between 60 and 90. Many of them need help in their daily life or they just prefer to spend their retirement surrounded by people with the similar age. Many single people in Germany live in elderly homes if they don’t have someone to take care of them.
Nurses are responsible for the medical side of their life and also daily life, they accompany and support seniors. It includes the fulfillment of their physical, mental, social, and psychological needs.
Doctors who work as self-employed and not on hospitals and clinics also need nurses for assistance and other tasks. Usually specialists in a particular field open their own practice where they invite patients, for example, internal medicine or dentistry. Usually, jobs at private practices or clinics are paid lower than in the big hospitals.
Nurses are also needed in homes for handicapped people. In general they have the same responsibilities as in the elderly home.
Rehabilitation centers called Reha in Germany, it’s where people recover after some injure or have chronic illnesses. Nurses job is to assist and support them in their everyday life.