INTRODUCTION: Positive attitudes towards family involvement in nursing care are essential for improving the involvement of and collaboration with patients' families. The aim of this study is to explore nurses' attitudes towards the importance of families in nursing care. METHOD: Using a cross-sectional …

Aim: To describe the extent of perceived collaboration between family caregivers of older persons and hospital nurses. Background: Collaboration between hospital nurses and family caregivers is of increasing importance in older patient’s care. Research lacks a specific focus on family caregiver’s collaboration …

Family caregivers of an older person who was recently hospitalized often feel unprepared for their new or expanded tasks. Quality and continuity of care for older people is expected to improve when nurses collaborate with family caregivers as partners in care. The aim of this study was to explore the …

A strong process view on business networks takes ‘becoming’ as a starting point for understanding business networks and innovation. This view tends to leave the role of strategic content implicit and underdeveloped. Yet, embracing content from a process angle is important to obtain insight in the role …

Measuring family caregivers’ experiences of collaboration with nurses is important in the context of health care reforms that advocate an increased role of families in care. The Family Collaboration Scale (FCS) measures collaboration between nurses and family caregivers, however, the scale has a broad …

Een op de drie Nederlanders heeft een chronische aandoening en dat aantal neemt sterk toe bij mensen boven de 75 jaar (Nivel, 2018). De meeste mensen zijn niet zorgafhankelijk, maar leven met de gevolgen van chronische gezondheidsproblemen. Echter 45% van de mensen in de leeftijdscategorie 55-64 jaar …

The instrument called Families Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA) is used to measure nurses' attitudes toward involving families in their nursing care. The aim of this study is to evaluate the FINC-NA scale in a population of Dutch nurses and add new psychometric information to existing …

Making interorganizational cooperation successful proves a daunting task. While current approaches to interorganizational performance management (PM) highlight why interorganizational cooperation matters and which phases are required, it remains silent on the dynamics of interorganizational PM. That …

Making interorganizational cooperation successful proves a daunting task. While cur- rent approaches to interorganizational performance management (PM) highlight why interorganizational cooperation matters and which phases are required, it remains silent on the dynamics of interorganizational PM. …

Background: Caregiving by family members of elderly with chronic conditions is currently intensifying in the context of an aging population and health care reform in the Netherlands. It is essential that nurses have attention for supporting roles of family caregivers of older patients and address family …