Liliane Juchli Explained

Liliane Juchli
Birth Date:19 October 1933
Birth Place:Obersiggenthal, Switzerland
Death Place:Bern, Switzerland
Nationality:Swiss
Known For:Nursing textbooks in the German-, Dutch- and Italian-speaking area
Refining and extending the activities of daily living nursing model
Honors:Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Cross of Merit, 1st Class (2018)
Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria (2010)

Liliane Juchli (19 October 1933 – 30 November 2020) was a Swiss nurse and member of the Merciful Sisters of the Holy Cross, a Swiss congregation that followed the Franciscan tradition.

Life

She was the main author of a highly influential German-language nursing textbook which was simply called "the Juchli". She was also responsible for extending Nancy Roper's activities of daily living nursing model and disseminating it in Europe. She died in 2020 of COVID-19.[1]

Works

From 1953 to 1969, she edited her own teaching papers, resulting in a 300-page textbook that was used internally at the Theodosianum Hospital and Nursing School in Zürich. She was then approached by the Thieme publishing house of Stuttgart, which resulted in the publication of Umfassende Krankenpflege. 1989 saw the 550,000th copy sold. The 6th edition (1991) was the first to contain more than 1,000 pages. For the 8th edition, the editorial responsibility was transferred to the publisher.

Other works

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wir trauern um Sr. Liliane Juchli. 2020-11-30. Schweizer Berufsverband der Pflegefachfrauen und Pflegefachmänner. Liliane Juchli hat sich, bereits durch eine hartnäckige Infektion geschwächt, mit Covid-19 angesteckt. Den Kampf gegen dieses Virus hat sie nun nicht mehr gewinnen können.. 2020-12-01. 2020-12-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20201203152155/https://www.sbk.ch/aktuell/news-single?tx_news_pi1%5Bnews%5D=523&cHash=735976a87b91c45ad695485e76e9e78d. dead.