This thesis addresses two important issues in midwifery: I) the care and support provided by midwives to women and their families facing vulnerable circumstances during pregnancy and childbirth, and II) the role and tasks of clinical midwives in Dutch hospitals.

Aim(s): To understand how nurses experience their positioning amidst hospital crises. Background: Nursing leadership literature is predominantly focused on the skills and competencies of nurses and less on the relations in practice with nurses. Nurses are often valued for bedside care but are overlooked …

Objective: Motor competence development from early to middle childhood is accompanied by great variance. This course can be influenced by many factors in the ecosystem. The objective of this study was to examine which individual characteristics are associated with an undesirable motor competence development …

De muziektherapeuten van een zorginstelling behandelen bewoners in woonzorgcentra op afdelingen met bewoners met somatische en psychogeriatrische aandoeningen. Deze behandelingen bestaan uit zowel individuele- als groepssessies. De muziektherapeuten willen meer samenwerking met de zorgmedewerkers om …

Ziel der Studie war es, einen international anwendbaren Fragebogen zu entwickeln, mit dem der Zusammenhang zwischen dem sozioökonomischen Status (SöS) der Eltern und den Lesefähigkeiten der Kinder (sechs bis zwölf Jahren) gemessen werden kann. Zudem sollteüberprüft werden, ob der Fragebogen international …

Onderzoek, onderwijs en beroepspraktijk zijn nauw met elkaar verbonden. Maar hoe weet je of je tijdens je opleiding voldoende kennis meekrijgt die je ook in de praktijk kunt toepassen? In de forensische zorg bleken opleidingen vaak tekort te schieten. Ruud van der Horst, expert in forensische zorg, vertelt …

Dit kwalitatieve onderzoek richt zich op de ervaringen van dramatherapie door volwassenen tussen de 18 en 65 jaar met ernstige psychiatrische aandoeningen (EPA). Hoewel dramatherapie in populariteit toeneemt, is er nog weinig bekend over de geleefde ervaring van dramatherapie in deze doelgroep. De hoofdvraag …

Background Family participation in essential care may benefit patients and relatives. Aims To examine the needs, perceptions and preferences of health care providers about family participation in essential care in the adult intensive care unit. Study design A qualitative descriptive study using inductive …

Objectives Quality improvements (QIs) in dynamic and complex health care contexts require resilience and take variability into account in quality improvement. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) helps us understand resilience and gain insight into (un)desirable variability in the complex …

Background: Community nurses (CNs) play an important role in supporting healthy lifestyles, including healthy eating behaviour of patients. However, many CNs do not incorporate healthy eating support in their daily routines to the fullest extent possible. This study aimed to explore (1) the associations …