A short interview with palliative zh+sh: Five questions for Katerina Gnehm

Nursing-related experience

o Short internships at Spitex, a nursing home, a hospice, and a hospital (2019 - 2020 in Zurich, Affoltern am Albis, Horgen, and Kilchberg).

o Nursing school education 2 of 4 years (2018 - 2020, Careum Bildungszentrum):

o Problem-based learning (PBL) - social learning, groups, roles, and collaboration on open-ended, complex, real-life problems.

o Focus topics in Anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology

o Infection prevention: Hygiene, Isolation, Epidemiology, and Immunization

o Sociology and the creation of roles

o Metacognitive self-reflection

o Developmental Psychology

o Perceptual Psychology

o Awareness, observation, and interpretation

o Communication and active listening

o Patient privacy in health care institutions: privacy and the topic of shame from the patient's point of view

o Introduction to Ethics, including WHO ethical principles and human rights, ethical principles of nursing, and the rights and responsibilities of patients

o Model of nursing based on activities of living, according to Roper, Logan, and Tierney

o Nursing diagnostics, planning, and interventions

o Electronic patient documentation

o Mental health and illness

o Anxiety disorder, neurotic disorders

o Autonomy

o Guardianship measures and legal grounds

o Nursing services in the non-hospital sector

o Insight into different nursing and medical fields of work, professional profiles, and competencies

o Transitions, life changes

o Living in a nursing home or a dependent living situation

o Care anamnesis and consultation with patients (children and youth, adults, and people with mental disorders)