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service planning: Sudoku for professionals

Care is almost always in the layer service. While I write these lines, working around the globe, an incredible number of nurses for their patients. 365 days in a year. 24 hours of the day. With me on the ward the morning passes just service to the late service. It is a continuous operation. An […]

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dealing with germs: Fully insulated

Before I decided for the training to be a nurse, I made a one-month internship in today’s Asklepios clinic Wandsbek, which belonged at that time to the country of operation hospitals. I was totally inexperienced, what happens in a hospital. Accordingly, I have experienced many things that I would not have expected. Also with a […]

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death – a brother of sleep

We all know it very exactly: every human life is death, inevitably, But how it looks, specifically, when patients die? What we feel, what we feel in such moments? As we try to integrate the fact of the finiteness of human existence in our work in the hospital? A little story from my night duty […]

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The narrow ridge: empathy in care work

Empathy is, in my eyes, one of the highest goods in social Professions, especially in the health – and sick care. It is the art of the Worries and Fears of the patient, to understand your concerns and your Fears – no matter how old you are, whether man or woman, and what illness or […]

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The Job of integration officer: A story with a Happy ending

Guest post: Since the first of April works Alev Gürbalkan as an integration officer at the Asklepios hospital in Hamburg-Harburg. The graduate of Economics and labour lawyer, is the contact person for the foreign workers in the hospital. Their tasks also include the Checking of applications. A case like that it describes in a guest […]

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privacy policy

Privacy policy Privacy is very important to us. The protection of your personal data, we take very seriously. We would like to explain below what information we collect, when, and to what purpose, process, and use. 1. Anonymous data collection and data processing We use the Internet for web Analytics, the open source Tool Piwik. […]

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Thank you for my second life!

There are moments when I have tears in my eyes. They are rare, because I would describe myself as being very controlled people. A few months ago was one of those moments. On my Station, I was greeted by a colleague with the sentence: “We have received a letter from Mr Schulze*.” (*Name changed) Mr. […]

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application to be a nurse: to Invent nothing!

In my work as a Manager in the health – and sick care, the selection of candidates is one of my tasks. There are now more Vacancies than applicants, but, nevertheless, it is not, of course, to get to the place to which you are applying, also. What you can watch for, especially in the […]

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vocational school day for fresh-baked apprentices

The year 2017 is going to end and if this post is online, in 2018 already begun. It’s high time to draw a conclusion. Today was my last official workday for this year. Only I. in a course in the second year of the apprenticeship, the training in health and nursing supervised an exam on […]

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