Dr. Bernhard Holle, MScN

Curriculum Vitae

After training as a nurse (1994-1997), Bernhard Holle studied nursing science at the Witten/Herdecke University and graduated with a Master of Science in Nursing. During his time as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Nursing Science, Witten/Herdecke University (2002-2007), he was involved in two research projects with the objective to provide indications for the further development of the German long-term care insurance (“Pflegeversicherung”, SGB XI). Here he examined so-called long-term care budgets as to their feasibility in the outpatient nursing practice and evaluated the implementation of counseling visits to § 37 par. 3 of the SGB XI.

During the same period, from 2003 to 2005, Holle worked as manager of a mobile nursing service. From 2007 to 2009, as a referent at state level for residential care for the elderly, he acquired further knowledge of the organization and structure of nursing care services. As part of his Ph.D., which he finished in 2010, he conducted an empirically based development of a conceptual framework for home care counseling (5-F concept of home care counseling model).

Since 2010 Bernhard Holle has been group leader of the working group Care Structures at the DZNE center in Witten. His research focuses on the structural conditions of care for people with dementia, applying health service research methods.