Sven Jennessen
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany
Title: Quality Advancement of Children's and Youth Hospice Work in Germany with QuinKÂ
Biography
Biography: Sven Jennessen
Abstract
In Germany, Children and youth hospice work is a very dynamic field which, during the last 25 years,they as continued to establish, develop and professionalize itself in the German hospice and palliative movement. Since 2015, impulses for quality advancement are given by the “Qualitätsindex für Kinder†und Jugendhospitzarbeit” (Quink), a nonstandardized questionnaire tool which was developed by a research team in cooperation with the deutsche Hospiz- und PaliativVerband e. V. (DHPV). The track gives an overview of the current situation of children and youth hospice work in Germany and introduces Quink as an innovative, reflexive quality management tool.