Liliane Juchli

Liliane Juchli was a Swiss nurse and member of the Merciful Sisters of the Holy Cross, a Swiss congregation in the Franciscan tradition, who lived from 19 October 1933 to 30 November 2020. She is best known as the main author of an influential German language nursing textbook so widely used that it was known simply as the Juchli. It began as about three hundred pages of teaching papers that she edited from 1953 to 1969 for use at the Theodosianum Hospital and Nursing School in Zurich, and the publisher Thieme of Stuttgart then issued it as Umfassende Krankenpflege in 1971. By 1989 more than half a million copies had been sold. She also extended Nancy Roper's activities of daily living model of nursing and helped spread it across Europe, and she died in 2020 of COVID-19.