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Our visiting clowns in action: how Pippa-Jolie and Ina Schnusel bring a smile to people's faces
The two visiting clowns Pippa-Jolie and Ina Schnusel offer a fascinating insight into their work at Zollikerberg Hospital. With music, magic and humour, they visit patients on various wards every month to create moments of lightness and joy. They talk about people's touching reactions and share moving stories of encounters that have left lasting impressions.
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The invisible heroine: pharmacist in everyday hospital life
Tina Tabel, Team Leader Pharmaceutical Assistance at Zollikerberg Hospital, offers in-depth insights behind the scenes of the hospital pharmacy, where around 1500 medicines are currently stored. In the interview, Tina describes how these are stored, the ordering processes and the associated challenges, as well as her personal motivation for this exciting job.
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The first steps in life: Insight into the work at our maternity centre
Meenu Thattil, team leader of the maternity department at Zollikerberg Hospital, describes her fulfilling work, in which she supports and accompanies parents and newborns in emotional and challenging moments. She also talks about a very special encounter that shaped her.
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With heart and dedication: volunteer work at Zollikerberg Hospital
Being there for others with heart and dedication - this describes the volunteer work at Gesundheitswelt Zollikerberg and Zollikerberg Hospital, which Sandra Kirschke has been passionate about for two years. Whether during conversations, walks or in quiet moments - here she meets people at the deepest level, even in the challenging phases of their lives.
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Our social counselling as a travel agency for life
The social counselling service at Zollikerberg Hospital is available to our patients as well as to anyone seeking advice and support. In this interview, Claudia von Ow, Head of Social Counselling, explains the areas in which she can offer you advice, the specialist services she works with and dispels some common preconceptions.
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Commitment to the nursing training of the future
She is responsible for training the new generation of nurses and has been working at Zollikerberg Hospital since 1999. In her hospital story, Sabina Decurtins, Head of Education at the Zollikerberg Healthcare World Learning and Education Centre, talks about her career path at the hospital, the differences in nursing from the past to the present and future challenges in nursing training.
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Working as a Breast Care Nurse
Jennifer Bucher, certified Breast Care Nurse at the BreastCentre Zurich, Bethanien & Zollikerberg, cares for and supports people with breast cancer and their relatives on a daily basis. In this interview, you can find out more about her training path, her touching and challenging experiences and the reasons why she chose this special profession.
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From training to further education at Zollikerberg Hospital
Emily Arnold has just completed her apprenticeship as a healthcare specialist. In this interview, she talks about her apprenticeship at Zollikerberg Hospital: about the inseparable friendships she has made, about exciting internships in various areas such as paediatric nursing or geriatric care and about the many further training opportunities that now await her and which she has chosen.
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Power woman Fiona Römer: How she balances her studies, career and children
In her hospital story, Fiona Römer, power woman, Quality Management and Projects employee and Deputy Head of Resource Management, talks about her career change from nursing to the commercial sector and how she was supported in the process. She also talks about the dual role of mother and working woman.