Curriculum Vitae

Marianne Riesen
Ungarbhlstrasse 54
8200 Schaffhausen

Employment
Summer 2012

Retirement from nurse anaesthesia practice

2008 to 2012

Spital Limmattal, Dept. of Anaesthesia, Urdorferstr. 100,

8952 Schlieren, Switzerland

Responsibility:
practice)

Education of nurse anaesthesia students (classroom and

Curriculum development
Organisation and planning of the continuous professional
development for qualified Nurse Anaesthetists

2006 2007

Hinchingbrooke Hospital, Huntingdon East Anglia, UK

Responsibility:

see below: Wansbeck General Hospital

2004 - 2005

Wansbeck General Hospital, Ashington Northumberland, UK

Nurse Anaesthetist

Responsibility:
under

Cooperation in introducing Nurse Anaesthetists to England

The direction of the Department of Health (DoH) New Ways

of Working in
Aanaesthesia scheme.
1992 - 2003
Switzerland

Kantonsspital 9000, St. Gallen, Rorschacherstr. 100

(www.kssg.ch)

Responsibility:
1999 2003

Nurse Anaesthesia Program Director

1992 - 1999
anaesthesia

Clinical instructor and classroom teacher at the nurse

Program

1983 - 1992
district hospitals

Practice as nurse anaesthetist in various teaching and

1981 1983

Nurse anaesthesia education

1977 - 1981

Training and practice as ITU Nurse

Education
Basic Nursing Education (3years)
1968
Schweiz. Pflegerinnenschule Zrich

Diploma:

Tertiary Education
Post graduate diploma in intensive care nursing
1977
(2 years) Kantonsspital St. Gallen

awarded

Post graduate diploma in nurse anaesthesia

1983
(2 years) Kantonsspital St. Gallen

awarded

Master Nursing science: Theory building and research methods 60 ECTS

University of Wales, Cardiff U.K. (2 semesters)
2003
Bachelor of Nursing, Christchurch Polytechnic, Christchurch, New Zealand:
(1 year full time transition program)
awarded 2000
Nurse Educator Diploma (2 years)
Wirtschaftspdagogisches Institut (WPI)
Morschach, Switzerland

awarded 1997

Professional Politics
SIGA / FSIA (Swiss Federation of Nurse Anaesthetists) www.siga-fsia.ch
1992 2003
committee

Member of the Swiss nurse anaesthesia education

Achievements:
2011
anaesthetists

Initiating and developing a CPD concept for Swiss nurse

2014 the concept has met amazing appreciation from the
Swiss Nursing Board and it will be adapted to suit the
documentation of CPD activities for nurses.

2011

Negotiating with and obtaining from the Royal College of

Physician and Surgeons of Canada the permission to adapt
the CanMEDS role model to nurse anaesthesia in Switzerland

2013 2014
Anaesthetists in

Developing standards and competency profiles for Nurse

Switzerland based on the IFNA standards

2014
from January

Developing a practice committee which will be a commission

2015.

The commissions tasks are:

To promote evidence based practice in nurse anaesthesia education
To promote and monitor the CPD concept
To adapt the IFNA standards to the Swiss legislation and to have them
approved by the national community of interest
To work together with the education committee in order to establish
the standards into nurse anesthesia education
To cooperate with the national congress planning committee
To promote nurse anesthesia nationally

IFNA (International Federation of Nurse Anesthetists) www.ifna-int.org

1999 2001
2001 to date

Country National Representative (CNR) for Switzerland

Member of the IFNA Education Committee

Achievements:
Defining and describing the latest version of the IFNA standards of
education, monitoring standards, standards of practice and code of
ethics together with the members of the education - and practice
committee, which will be ready for approval by the CNR in Glasgow

2016
Delegated by IFNA to negotiate the definition of competencies and
the format of the standards with the ICN
Negotiating with and obtaining from the Royal College of Physician
and Surgeons of Canada the permission to adapt the CanMEDS role
model to nurse anaesthesia and use it as a framework for IFNA
Achievements:
2008

Starting of the development process of the IFNA Anesthesia Program

Approval Process (APAP) together with the education committee
members

2010

Development of the accreditation documents

2011
First IFNA accreditation in Paris (France) as team chair and Karin
Bjrkman (team
member) to test the developed documents
2013

Accreditation of the nurse anaesthesia program of Basel (Switzerland)

as team member and local expert and Karin Bjrkman as team chair.

2014

Accreditation of the nurse anaesthesia program of Aarau

(Switzerland), as local expert and trainer of Christian Herion (currently
Swiss CNR in IFNA) to be new accreditator.
Karin Bjrkman was (team chair) Susana Anang team member

2014

Accreditation of the nurse anaesthesia program of Iceland as team

chair and Lars Egger (member of the IFNA practice committee) as
team member and trainee.

2015

planned accreditation of a program in Copenhagen as team chair and

Jackie Rowles as team member

ESA (European Society of Anaesthesiologists)

2012

Member of the Liaison Committee of IFNA with ESA

2013

Presentation at the Euroanaesthesia Congress Barcelona

Title: IFNA standards of education and IFNA accreditation programme
for nurse anaesthesia education

2014

Presentation at the Euroanaesthesia Congress Stockholm

Title: Different roles of non-physician anaesthesia personnel under the
aspect of migration

2015

Scheduled presentation at the Euroanaesthesia Congress Berlin

Declaring competencies, skills and knowledge to enable recognition
when migrating
(Title not yet completely clear)