Foundation Course Content

“Therapeutically Activating Nursing Care for Adults after Acquired Brain Injuries – Bobath Concept”

The course aims to enable participants to identify individual resources and nursing problems of patients, derive nursing goals from them, and apply appropriate nursing measures. The course teaches an individual, body-friendly way of working (e.g., back-friendly) and addresses the importance of interdisciplinarity with other professional groups.

Participants should understand that every nursing action, individually adapted and adequately supported, serves to achieve the best possible improvement in patients’ quality of life according to the principles of therapeutically activating nursing care. By linking theoretical content with practical work with patients, a holistic perspective and a sense of responsibility are to be fostered.

At least 67 teaching hours of 45 minutes each and 2 hours for the work and learning assignment based on documented practical work. In 2 parts, the minimum duration is 8 days. The course must be completed within 8 months.

The following recommendation applies to the course duration:

For participants who primarily work in geriatric, neurological, and neurosurgical rehabilitation, a 10-day Bobath nursing foundation course should be chosen.

For participants who work in acute hospitals or nursing homes, an 8-10 day Bobath nursing foundation course should be chosen.

To fulfill the Zerkur guidelines of the German Federal Association of Geriatrics, a 10-day course with 80 hours is necessary.

Between the first and second part, a work and learning assignment based on documented practical work (with video) must be completed.

The maximum absence for recognized nursing foundation courses is 4 teaching hours.

• dialogical approach
• identification of patient resources
• orientation towards patient needs
• identifying and aligning key points/body segments
• therapeutically activating intervention
• tonus-regulating influence
• building core stability
• avoiding or managing secondary damage
• recognizing compensatory behavior
• ensuring patient safety during movement transitions and positioning
• deliberately setting priorities
• facilitating perception-enhancing measures
• facilitating and utilizing normal movement

Support with:

• Movement transitions and positioning in and out of bed
• Personal hygiene
• Dressing
• Toileting
• Breathing
• Preparation for food intake

• Movement experience / analysis
• Lectures
• moderated classroom discussion
• Discussion
• Practical exercises (self-experience, partner work, in groups),
• Work with patients under supervision, demonstration of practical content
• Discussion and analysis of case studies
• Presentation of two patients by the course instructor
• Practical work of participants with patients (under supervision, partly during clinical routine on the ward)
• Documentation of a defined nursing sequence by the course participants

• The origin and development of the Bobath Concept
• The basic principles of the Bobath Concept and normal movement
• The definition of therapeutically activating nursing care Bobath BIKA^®
• The definition of facilitation
• Plasticity
• The effects of CNS damage and the management of the resulting:
  • sensorimotor
  • neuropsychological
  • social
  • psychological

problems and secondary damage to the musculoskeletal system

Of these, at least 10 hours of work with patients and an additional minimum of 2 hours of patient presentation by the course instructor.

All nursing staff with state recognition; curative education nurses.

Professionals in the nursing or therapeutic field in consultation with the course instructor.

Observers do not receive a certificate, but a certificate of observation.

The stamp of BIKA® e.V. / Association of Bobath Instructors (VeBID) Germany e.V. certifies compliance with the course guidelines and recognition by BIKA® e.V. / Association of Bobath Instructors (VeBID) Germany and Austria e.V.

As of November 4, 2022