Ruth Milbach

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Introduction

• Ruth Milbach
• ORN / Vice Headnurse
• Operating Room for
• Orthopaedic- and Hand Surgery
• (elective surgery trauma)
• University Hospital
• Inselspital Bern
• Switzerland

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Personal Record

• Born in Bitburg / Germany
• Highschool for social pedagogy and social work
• Registered nurse (RN) on ward (gyn., med., surg.)
  1885-1989
• RN in Operating Room 1989-1991
• Moving to switzerland 1991 / RN in OR Orthopaedic
  Surgery Inselspital Bern1991-1992
• Operating Room Nurse in Orth.OR Inselspital Bern
  since 1994
• Instructor in Practice since 1996
• Vice Head Nurse since 2001

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Professional Trainings

• Registered Nurse (Germany / 1985)
• Operating Room Nurse (Switzerland / 1993)
• Instructor in practice (Switzerland / 1996)
• Management Diploma BPIH (Switzerland / 2003)

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The Orthopaedic clinic of University Hospital
Inselspital70 beds5 surgery teamship,
spine, upper extremitiy, knee, footapprox. 4000
operations/year 40 trauma, 60 elective
orthop. surgery
www.orthopaedie.insel.ch
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Operating Room Area

• 4 rooms for elective operations (orthopaed.- and
  handsurgery)
• 2 rooms for trauma
• (orthopaed. and handsurgery)

momentarily 29 ORP 3-4 RN in training for ORP
(12 weeks training in our dept.)
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Contact

• Ruth Milbach
• Stv. LPD Ortho OPs D-West
• Inselspital Bern
• Freiburgstrasse
• 3010 Bern
• ruth.milbach_at_insel.ch