Ask Franziska Bissig why she loves her job as a nursing supervisor at the Lucerne Cantonal Hospital Group, and she breaks into an easy smile.
“The best feeling for me is when you can help your patients, help cure them,” she says. “And if your staff is happy, that makes you happy, too.”
LUKS, as it’s known locally, is an expansive campus with views on the mountains that surround Lucerne. The group includes three other hospitals in Central Switzerland. Of its almost 9,000 employees, 2,780 are nurses. Bissig has been a nurse for about 25 years, the past four as a supervisor of her team of about 70 on a post-surgery ward.