Background Total laryngectomy with or without adjuvant (chemo)radiation often induces speech, swallowing and neck and shoulder problems. Speech, swallowing and shoulder exercises may prevent or diminish these problems. The aim of the present paper is to describe the study, which is designed to investigate …

Honours programs are selective programs that offer challenging educational opportunities for talented students who are willing and able to do more than regular programs offer them (Wolfensberger et.al.,2012). For optimal learning, these programs should focus on three dimensions of teaching approaches: …

Honours programs prepare talented students to become the excellent professionals of the future. However, the behavioral aspects which define an excellent professional have not been elucidated yet. We therefore performed a research study on how professionals characterize an excellent professional in their …

Purpose Honours programs prepare talented students to become future excellent professionals . However, competences defining an excellent professional have not been elucidated yet. We investigated how professionals characterize an excellent communication professional, aiming to develop a competence profile …

Current guidelines on secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease recommend nurse-coordinated care (NCC) as an effective intervention. However, NCC programmes differ widely and the efficacy of NCC components has not been studied. To investigate the efficacy of NCC and its components in secondary prevention …

Op mijn praktijkschool, basisschool X, heb ik mijn onderzoek uitgevoerd. Vanaf groep 3 wordt er op mijn praktijkschool zaakvakonderwijs gegeven, maar met uitzondering van natuuronderwijs. Voor natuuronderwijs is een methode aangeschaft, maar deze wordt niet gebruikt. Uit mijn onderzoek blijkt dat er …

Purpose: Pressure ulcers are a high cost, high volume issue for health and medical care providers, having a detrimental effect on patients and relatives. Pressure ulcer prevention is widely covered in the literature, but little has been published regarding the risk to patients in the radiographical setting. …

Introduction: Pressure ulcers are a high cost, high volume issue for health and medical care providers, affecting patients’ recovery and psychological wellbeing. The current research of support surfaces on pressure as a risk factor in the development of pressure ulcers is not relevant to the specialised, …

Met behulp van een conceptcartoon worden leerlingen (leeftijd 9 – 15) geconfronteerd met verschillende verklaringen van een alledaags verschijnsel. Na het verkennen van meningen en argumenten, blijken leerlingen zeer creatief te zijn in het bedenken van experimenten om het verschijnsel nader te onderzoeken. …