Milena Bruschini, MScN

Work at ZHAW

Focus

acute care, rehabilitation, patient centered outcome measure (PCOM), sexual harassment towards nurses

Experience

• Research Associate
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
  01 / 2022 - today
• Registered Nurse
  Rehabilitation clinic, aarReha Schinznach
  08 / 2020 - 06 / 2022
• Registered Nurse
  Contonal Hospital Baden
  01 / 2018 - 05 / 2020

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Master of Science in Nursing (MScN)
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur
  09 / 2020 - 02 / 2022
• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BScN)
  Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), Winterthur
  02 / 2018 - 08 / 2020
• Registered Nurse / Acute care
  College of Higher Education for Health and Social Affairs (HFGS), Aarau
  09 / 2015 - 09 / 2017
• Licensed Practical Nurse
  Vocational Education and Training for Health and Social Affairs (BFGS), Brugg
  08 / 2012 - 08 / 2015

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8630-2090

Projects

• InterventionS TO Prevent Sexual Harassment against nurses / Project leader / ongoing
• Organisational capacity building on person-centred dementia care – Development of a toolbox for nursing homes / Team member / ongoing
• Sex and gender integration in the bachelor curricula of nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy / Team member / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

• Yürümezoğlu, H. A., Bruschini, M. M. and Schubert, M. (2026) 'Nursing students' perspectives on implicit rationing of nursing care : cross-sectional and cross-cultural analysis', International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 10(100544). doi: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2026.100544.
• Bruschini, M. M. et al. (2026) 'Approaches to preventing workplace sexual harassment of nurses or minimising its adverse consequences : a scoping review', BMC Nursing, 25(30). doi: 10.1186/s12912-025-04179-2.
• Bruschini, M. M. and Schubert, M. (2025) 'Interventions to prevent sexual harassment against nurses - StopSH : protocol for an intervention development study', JMIR Research Protocols, 14(e71425). doi: 10.2196/71425.
• Borchart, D. et al. (2025) 'Contributing factors of the preferred retirement age in nursing professionals : cross-sectional results of the German lidA cohort study', Journal of Public Health. doi: 10.1007/s10389-025-02511-3.
• Bruschini, M., Hediger, H. and Busch, A. K. (2023) 'Patients' sexual harassment of nurses and nursing students : a cross-sectional study', International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances, 5(100121). doi: 10.1016/j.ijnsa.2023.100121.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'A person-centred outcome measure for generalist palliative care in dementia : construct validity, factor analysis, internal consistency, reliability, and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale – Dementia (IPOS-Dem)', in 19th World Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Helsinki, Finland, 29-31 May 2025.

Other publications

• Bruschini, M. et al. (2026) Strategies to build organisational capacity for implementing and sustaining person-centred dementia care in nursing homes : a scoping review protocol. OSF. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/RWXH9.
• Zigan, N. et al. (2025) 'Bedürfnisse junger Onkologiepflegefachpersonen', Onkologiepflege, 2025(3), pp. 11–15.
• Bruschini, M., Quasdorf, T. and Schubert, M. (2024) Existing interventions to prevent workplace sexual harassment against nurses and minimise its negative consequences : a scoping review protocol. OSF. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/3QAPF.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'Can an electronic person-centred outcome measure be implemented in a resource-constrained, task-focused setting? Co-productive development of an implementation strategy in the community dementia care setting', in Palliative Medicine. Sage, p. 460. doi: 10.1177/02692163251335482.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2025) 'A person-centred outcome measure for generalist palliative care in dementia : construct validity, factor analysis, internal consistency, reliability, and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale – Dementia (IPOS-Dem)', in Palliative Medicine. Sage, p. 374. doi: 10.1177/02692163251335482.
• Bruschini, M. (2025) 'Was hilft bei sexueller Belästigung gegenüber Pflegepersonen?', in Schweizer Pflegekongress SBK-ASI, Bern, Schweiz, 7.-8. Mai 2025.
• Bruschini, M. (2024) 'Problem sexuelle Belästigung gegenüber Pflegepersonen : was nun?', in Schweizer Pflege Kongress SBK-ASI, Bern, Schweiz, 3. Mai 2024.
• Bruschini, M. (2023) 'Sexuelle Belästigung', in SBK ZH/GL/SH Webinarreihe, online, 6. Juli 2023.
• de Wolf-Linder, S. et al. (2022) 'Person-centred outcome guided palliative care for people with dementia : SENIORS-D research protocol', in National Research Day Palliative Care, Bern, Switzerland, 25 August 2022.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Patients’ sexual harassment of nurses and nursing students : a cross-sectional study.

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