BACKGROUND: Limited research has examined what is actually done in the process of care by nursing staff in long-term institutional care. The applied instruments employed different terminologies, and psychometric properties were inadequately described. This study aimed to develop and test an observational …

OBJECTIVES Previous studies regarding nursing documentation focused primarily on documentation quality, for instance, in terms of the accuracy of the documentation. The combination between accuracy measurements and the quality and frequencies of outcome variables such as the length of the hospital stay …

PURPOSE: The purpose of the study is (a) to describe care needs derived from records of patients in Dutch hospitals, and (b) to evaluate whether nurses employed the NANDA-I classification to formulate patients' care needs. METHODS: A stratified cross-sectional random-sampling nursing documentation audit …

Huisartsen worden in toenemende mate geconfronteerd met psychische problematiek bij patiënten. Daardoor krijgen huisartsen ook een steeds grotere diagnostische verantwoordelijkheid die gerelateerd is aan de geestelijke gezondheidszorg. Dit vraagt meer deskundigheid en meer tijd. Tevens is het de bedoeling …