The Oekumenische Institut für Pflegeberufe in der Ortenau gGmbH (Ecumenical Institute for Nursing Professions in Ortenau non-profit limited company) was founded in 2005 and has its headquarters in Offenburg. In cooperation with 80 partners, the Institute provides training for some 300 nursing and geriatric nursing students, many of whom can be found working throughout the country. Numerous further training courses round off the institute's portfolio. When it comes to conducting all these training measures, they rely on the seminar management software from easySoft.

Sonja Mutschler-Prater, together with Nurse Ratmunda who was the school director at the time, helped launch the educational institution. From the very beginning, the School Director has relied on easySoft to plan and implement her students' class and work schedules. "We were convinced by the performance of the software," she says. All the more so after the Institute had to switch for a short time to another program that was being used by the new school board. "There were hardly any synergies as a result of the use of the common software," Ms. Mutschler-Prater sums up the interim solution and has since returned to using the software from easySoft for the past three years. "It is much more transparent and functional," reasons the School Director.

"Our goal is a clear and straightforward work schedule," explains Uwe Wälde. The Training Manager at IMS Gear and his 14 employees wanted a clear picture of when and where which trainees could be found at any given time. No easy task – the automotive supplier employs 160 German-speaking trainees who cover around 250 different areas and departments during their three years of training. Four fifths of them are trained in industrial-technical occupations. The company also wanted to be able to store evaluations, report portfolios and certificates all in the same database. Further requirements included enabling the instructors to enter data themselves and the trainees to keep track of their work schedule a year in advance. All of this, of course, with different access rights in order to ensure data security. In other words, extremely complex.

Never change a running system – the Schule für Gesundheits- und Krankenpflege (Nursing School) in Emmendingen abides by this motto in an important area of the school's management. Since 1999, the nursing training has been organized using software from easySoft. In addition to tangible facts such as continuously increasing product quality, high reliability and good customer service, e.g. through the quick and competent hotline, School Director Reinhard Lay also values the exemplary corporate culture of the Metzingen-based company, "I have the impression that the employees work with conviction."
Currently, 100 nurses are being trained in three classes for two hospitals – the district hospital and the Center for Psychiatry Emmendingen. With more than 30 young adults, the three classes are relatively large but they are each closely supervised by two class teachers.
These teachers also play an important role in the use of the software, as each of them has full access to all relevant data. "The class teachers enter all grades for their own students themselves. Thus, they always have an overview of grade fluctuations and can react quickly," says the trained nursing educator, healthcare manager and School Director.