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Research Consortium Lead by the Division or Organizational Health Secures Major Grant for “Co-Creation of Care” Project:

We are pleased to share that a research consortium led by the Division of Organizational Health has been awarded 2.2 million Swiss francs from the Swiss National Science Foundation to advance human-centeredness in healthcare. Project-Details
The project explores how nurses and patients can work together more effectively to improve the experiences and outcomes for both groups.  
Working with several Swiss hospitals, we will study everyday care interactions through interviews, observations, and surveys. We will identify key factors that enable meaningful collaboration and develop practical, evidence-based recommendations to support healthcare teams and improve patient experiences. 
This collaboration brings together researchers from UZH, ZHAW, ZHdK, and USZ. It bridges occupational health psychology, patient-oriented health services research, healthcare (service) management, nursing sciences, and design research, reflecting the complexity of human dimension of healthcare. 
By advancing the understanding and practice of Co-Creation of Care, we aim to contribute to more human-centered, sustainable healthcare systems in Switzerland and beyond. 

Crafting Playbook
The Crafting Playbook is an app that uses short “plays” to encourage users to think about their work activities and relationships in the workplace and to shape them in a targeted manner (i.e., to “craft” them). It is based on extensive research on job crafting, defined as pro-active strategies to change the characteristics of one's job to better align it with personal needs, goals, and skills.  
The Crafting Circle, consisting of representatives from Zurich's universities (PHZ, ZHaW, ZHdK), has developed a series of plays: on dealing with stress, on resources and pressures at work, on contributing personal strengths and values, as well as on mutual understanding within the team and showing appreciation. New plays are continuously being developed as part of further projects. Besides the end-user app, an open-source tool is available for other researchers and practitioners guiding them in developing own crafting plays. Mehr Informationen im folgenden, schweizerdeutschen Video: https://youtu.be/i7duTQNOhXo
Project lead: Georg Bauer, Philipp Kerksieck
External partners: PHZ, ZHaW, ZHdK, FHNW, Forum BGM Zürich 
Funding: DIZH, Project Partners, Center of Salutogenesis