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She is responsible for training the new generation of carers 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.

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.

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.

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.

Selma Eberhard recently successfully completed her apprenticeship as a healthcare specialist at Zollikerberg Hospital and now tells us in her hospital story about her time as an FAGE, what the biggest challenges were and how she and other apprentices supported each other.

Céline Larisch, a healthcare specialist in training at Zollikerberg Hospital, is one of the few people to hold a Swiss Olympic Card for beach volleyball. In her hospital story, the 17-year-old explains how she balances work, school and regular training and how she is supported at the hospital.

Urs Wildbolz has been in charge of our private ward specialising in acute geriatrics for five years. In his role, he wears several hats every day, which he talks about in this interview. He talks about what drives him, who his mentors were and provides insights into the challenges of nursing. What advice would he give to someone at the start of their career? Find out all this and more here.

The journey to the dialysis centre is one that patients with chronic kidney failure make several times a week, usually for the rest of their lives. At Zollikerberg Hospital, they are accompanied by Esther Karlen, who has been working as a qualified nurse on the dialysis ward since 2015. In this article, she explains how she supports the patients on the ward not only from a professional but also from an emotional perspective.

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