Research Interests
My
research interests are international, social science
theory-led and
mainly in the field of patient-centered health
services research and
educational research in the health sector. Starting
from my early steps
into research during the global AIDS crisis in the
early 1990s my main
focus is on health, social and nursing care for people
with severe
chronic illnesses or at the end of their life. My
research projects
were about the situation and perspective of these
patients and their
experiences on their way through a complex and often
confusing health
care system. Furthermore I’m interested in concepts,
structures and
procedures for health and nursing care for patients
with special needs,
for example in the field of Palliative Care, High-Tech
Home Care or
Intensive Home Care / Hospital-at-Home. I’m especially
interested in
concepts, models and strategies for the organization
and management of
health and social care for these patients (Case
Management, Care
Management, Pathways). Moreover
therapeutic-technical
aspects like home respiration and infusion
therapy and questions of integrating patients and
their relatives in
these demanding forms of care are of interest.
Additional aspects of my
research are initiatives for fostering health
literacy, patient
information and education as well as self-management
and self-help.
Coming
from this patient-centered perspective and considering
my background in
pedagogy I’m concerned about the qualifications health
professionals
require to answer complex biological, psychological
and social needs of
their patients. Therefore, during the last years
different aspects of
health professions education with a main focus on
nursing and its
academization and professionalization became more and
more important in
my research work.
Selected Projects
2020 - 2021 MELBERcom - Communication,
health literacy and interprofessionality in a global
health workforce. MEL/BER Seed Funding Program of the
Berlin University Alliance / Germany and University of
Melbourne / Australia
2020 – 2023 AUPIK – Maintenance
of home care infrastructures in crisis and disasters -
Funded by Federal Ministry of Research / Berlin, Germany
2019 - 2021 SAVENT - Safety dimensions
of aids supply in home care for ventilated patients.
Funded by the Innovationsausschuss
beim Gemeinsamen Bundesausschuss (G-BA), Germany
2016 – 2020 SPLASH I / II – Establishing
School Nurses at general-education schools in
Brandenburg and Hesse – Funded by HAGE e.V. /
Frankfurt/Main (SPLASH I) and AWO Potsdam e.V. (SPLASH
II)
2015 - 2017 PRIKON - International
Review and Comparison of Primary Care Concepts - Funded
by the Robert Bosch Foundation; Realized in
collaboration with University of Bielefeld, Institute of
Nursing Science
2015-2016 VELA-Regio - Health care
services for ventilated patients under regional aspects
- Funded by AOK Bundesverband (Statutory
Health Insurance Fund)
2013-2016 SHAPE - Safety in Home Care
for
ventilated Patients - Funded by the German Ministry of
Education and
Research; Realized at Charité - Universitaetsmedizin
Berlin
2012 - 2014 Rural Care Models - An
International Perspective (RUCA) - Funded by the Robert
Bosch
Foundation; Realized in collaboration with University of
Bielefeld,
Institute of Nursing Science
2009 – 2012 “Self-management for people
with mental health problems” – Funded by University
Research Budget;
completed at Charité – Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
2010
– 2011 “Curriculum Development and Analyses in
Vocational Training for
Adult and Pediatric Nurses” – Funded by the Ministry of
Labour and
Social Order, Family and Seniors Baden-Wuerttemberg and
the Association
of Nurse Educators Baden-Wuerttemberg; completed at
Charité –
Universitaetsmedizin Berlin
2004 –
2011 “Support of self-management and adherence of
patients with chronic
illness following a complex medication regime” – Funded
by the Federal
Ministry of Education and Research; executed as part of
the North
Rhine-Westphalian Nursing Research Network under the
leadership of
Prof. Dr. Doris Schaeffer; completed at University of
Bielefeld
2004
– 2005 “Palliative Practice – perspectives and needs of
staff of
in-patient and home care services for the elderly” –
Funded by Robert
Bosch Foundation Stuttgart; completed at Munich
University of Applied
Sciences
2003 – 2004
„Collaboration and Network Building in independent
patient advice
systems following § 65b SGB V” – Funded by the Umbrella
Association of
the German Health Insurances; completed in collaboration
with
University of Bielefeld and the Medical University of
Hannover
2000
– 2003 “Funding and Development of Palliative Home Care
in North-Rhine
Westfalia” – Funded by the Ministry of Family, Youth,
Women and Health
North-Rhine Westfalia; completed at University of
Bielefeld, Institute
of Nursing Research
1998 – 2003
“Patient-centered management of the
human-technic-interface in
high-tech home care” – Funded by University Research
Budget; completed
at University of Bielefeld, Institute of Nursing
Research
1996
– 2000 “Fostering the readiness to care for the
seriously ill and dying
persons in case of HIV/AIDS” – Funded by the Federal
Ministry of Labour
/ Federal Ministry of Health in the context of the
Federal Model
Program “Improvement of the situation of long-term care
recipients”
(Phase 1 / 2); completed at the Social Science Research
Center Berlin
(WZB)
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