Building a global bridge in health professions

At a glance

Co-project leader : Prof. Dr. Daniela Händler-Schuster, Prof. Karen McBride-Henry
Project team : Jonathan Dominguez Hernandez, Dr. Deborah Harris, Dr. Astrid Krahl, Prof. Robyn Maude, Dr. Tara N. Officer, Christina Schuler, Dr. Petra Stolz Baskett, Dr. Veronika Waldboth, Dr. Jill Wilkinson
Project status : ongoing
Funding partner : Foundation (Movetia)
Project partner : Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington / School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice
Contact person : Daniela Händler-Schuster

Description

Motivation/Rational

Given the rapid change in the health care capacity and demand land-scape globally, looking at international collaboration for health professional education is key to success to meet future challenges nurses and midwives will be confronted with. The School of Health Sciences ZHAW has engaged in Advanced Practice Nursing for over 10 years and the Midwifery profession is following suit. To strengthen this further, the ZHAW Faculty of Health's strategic aims are the promotion of internationalisation, e.g. with double degree programs.

New Zealand is one of few non-European OECD countries with a population of less than 10 million that is comparable to Switzerland. Furthermore, advanced midwifery practice has a long tradition in New Zealand with well established midwife-led maternity services, and Nurse Practitioners have been licensed under their own autonomous scope of practice since 2001.

Objectives

Expansion of international teaching/learning cooperation, incl. development of innovative e-learning-based offerings and establishment of internet-based exchange for that foster culturalsafety/diversity competences across the nursing/midwifery professions
Preliminary work to develop a joint and/or double degree pro-gram between the partners

Outcomes

Intercultural competence development for students and faculty of both Partners
Establishment of transnational digital-based teaching/learning innovations Target groups and long-term goal: The long-term goal is to establish a transnational cooperation that is characterized by excellence in teaching/learning and research. The current project emphasizes the development of intercultural compe-tencies of students and faculty. The project aims to offer students and faculty from Switzerland and New Zealand the opportunity to learn from, with, and about each other across countries and to increase the attractiveness of educational opportunities for students on their path to advanced health professionals capable of responding to global health challenges.

The project will also create an intercultural aware-ness of cross-national differences, as well as the effects on learning, teaching, and research, necessary for the development of future collaborative opportunities (e.g. double degree). To successfully establish a double degree program, preliminary work is needed, on the one hand, to try out joint teaching that is scalable in the future, and, on the other hand, to explore and develop processes and policies to mutually recognize prior learning and qualification contributions.

Publications

Herren, Regina; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; McBride-Henry, Karen; Stolz Baskett, Petra; Officer, Tara N.,

2024.

Medikamentenverschreibung durch nichtärztliche Gesundheitsfachpersonen im Vergleich.

NOVAcura.

55(1), pp. 23-26.
Herren, Regina; Harris, Deborah; Händler-Schuster, Daniela,

2023.

Needs to promote self-management in male gout patients.

In:

Te Kura Tapuhi Hauora—School of Nursing, Midwifery, and Health Practice Research School, Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand, 27 October 2023.
Roguski, M.; Officer, T. N.; Nazari Orakani, S.; Good, G.; Händler-Schuster, D.; McBride-Henry, K.,

2023.

Ein Blick nach Aotearoa (Neuseeland) : was wir aus der COVID-19- Pandemie im Umgang mit der Hörbeeinträchtigung lernen können.

In:

Schwerpunkt Angewandte Gerontologie: Wenn die Sinne nachlassen, ZHAW Hochschulbibliothek, Winterthur, Schweiz, 4. Juli 2023.
Edmond, K.; English, K.; Händler-Schuster, D.; Ross, J.,

2023.

Addressing self-neglect & health systems neglect.

In:

1st Global Collaborative Community of Rural Health Seminar, LaTrobe University, School of Rural Health Nursing, Bendigo, Australia, 3 May 2023.
Roguski, Michael; Officer, Tara N.; Nazari Orakani, Solmaz; Good, Gretchen; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; McBride-Henry, Karen,

2023.

Disabled peoples’ experiences accessing healthcare during COVID.

New Zealand Doctor Rata Aotearoa.

Available from: https://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/article/educate/practice/disabled-peoples-experiences-accessing-healthcare-during-covid
Stolz Baskett, Petra; Händler-Schuster, Daniela,

2023.

Advanced Nursing Practice Palliative Care : Rollenentwicklung im internationalen Kontext.

NOVAcura.

54(8), pp. 41-45.
Ross, Jean; Emond, Kate; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; English, Kim,

2023.

Connecting – fellows take action : an international rural collaboration.

Scope Contemporary Research Topics : Health and Wellbeing.

(8), pp. 94-103.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.34074/scop.3008005
Roguski, Michael; Officer, Tara N.; Nazari Orakani, Solmaz; Good, Gretchen; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; McBride-Henry, Karen,

2023.

Erfahrungen hörbeeinträchtigter Menschen während der COVID-19-Pandemie : eine Perspektive aus Aotearoa / Neuseeland.

NOVAcura.

54(7), pp. 41-45.
Stolz Baskett, Petra; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; Fierz, Katharina,

2023.

Internationalisierung von Master’s Curricula : Bildungsoffensive zur Entwicklung kultur-kompetenter Advanced Practitioners.

NOVAcura.

54(3), pp. 36-39.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9027/a000150
Streich, Patricia; Hraibi-Malash, Shahira I.; McBride Henry, Karen; Officer, Tara N.; Händler-Schuster, Daniela,

2023.

Pflegegeleitete Kliniken zur Förderung der interprofessionellen Zusammenarbeit?.

NOVAcura.

54(10), pp. 13-18.
Händler-Schuster, Daniela; McBride-Henry, Karen; Müller, Gerhard; Melloh, Markus,

2023.

Resources and resilience factors: how advanced practice nurses can promote resilience in hearing and visually impaired people : a grounded theory perspective from Switzerland.

Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen.

177, pp. 18-25.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.zefq.2022.12.005
Roguski, Michael; Officer, Tara N.; Nazari Orakani, Solmaz; Good, Gretchen; Händler-Schuster, Daniela; McBride-Henry, Karen,

2022.

Ableism, human rights, and the COVID-19 pandemic : healthcare-related barriers experienced by deaf people in Aotearoa New Zealand.

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

19(24), pp. 17007.

Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192417007
Händler-Schuster, Daniela,

2022.

Growing intercountry research collaborations.

In:

Presentation at Research School, Te Kura Tapuhi Hauora, The School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Practice, Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka, New Zealand, 26 October 2022.

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