One of my sons will be graduating as a Nurse Practitioner in a year and wants to work for an American company in Germany (he lived there for seven years and speaks fluent German). I know companies used to have nurses on staff for employees but I can’t find anything on the net; I presume they would be hired, if indeed they are still part of staff, in the U.S. I’ve looked everywhere for info on this subject. So, I’m posting here on the off chance that someone will read this who might have some information related to this. I searched Monster, etc. and even found a German job search site, but no luck.
I believe he would not cast his net wide enough - companies that employ nurses of their own would be fairly large, and why should they seek to recruit expats as nurses rather than locally? Is there a specific reason why he wants to work for an American company?
Not working in the field myself, but judging from what I read in the media there are a lot of fields where nurses are employed in Germany - in hospitals, of course, but also in nursing homes, and a lot of people work in home nursing services - there is a tendency since nursing insurance was introduced a decade ago in Germany for people to continue living at home, supported by regular nurse visits as necessary, until they are really ill and only then to move into an old people’s/nursing home.
If he is fluent in German the people in this online forum for the nursing professions could be of help - they also have a subforum on working in Germany as a foreign citizen. This professional association and this Open Directory category could also be of interest.
Hi. Thanks for your reply. He wants to work for an American company because of the difficulties of working in the EU when one is not a citizen; income tax issues; U.S. credentials maybe not being accepted across the board (not sure what the issues here would be); and that salaries of nurses in German working on the economy are not very good. It would be easier to work in a company that was familiar with these issues and could offer guidance to the employee. They could hire a German nurse but it might be easier to hire an American one given all the intricacies of hiring foreign employees.
I wish we had nursing insurance here like you mention. We do have some at-home nursing care available, but it’s expensive or for poor people only (Medicaid).