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 …

1. Introduction Most western societies are currently faced with an ageing population, decreasing workforce and increasingly technology-supported care. Whilst digitalisation of healthcare and care technology developments are demonstrating their adequacy and benefits in replacing professionals for certain …

The global nursing shortages exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a drastic reorganization in nursing practices. Work routines, the composition of teams and subsequently mundane nursing practices were all altered to sustain the accessibility and quality of care. These dramatic changes demanded …

Patients diagnosed with esophageal cancer have to deal with the consequences, such as major impact on their physical status and quality of life. A digital self-management tool could be a solution to support these patients in their self-management during the peri-operative period. This dissertation resulted …

Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning of nurses. Talk is a relational leadership practice. Using a qualitative‐ interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein members of executive hospital boards (7), nurses (14), physicians (7), and managers …

Some nurses are responding rebelliously to the changing healthcare landscape by challenging the status quo and deviating from suboptimal practices, professional norms, and organizational rules. While some view rebel nurse leadership as challenging traditional structures to improve patient care, others …

Hun hopeloos verouderde opleiding moest op de schop. Dat eisten psychiatrisch verpleegkundigen in opleiding op de Willem Arntsz Hoeve in 1970. ‘Aktiegroep Willem’ forceerde binnen een paar weken een doorbraak.

Nurse clinician-scientists are increasingly expected to show leadership aimed at transforming healthcare. However, research on nurse clinician-scientists' leadership (integrating researcher and practitioner roles) is scarce and hardly embedded in sociohistorical contexts. This study introduces leadership …

Dit betreft een verkennend onderzoek, met als doel een eerste indruk te geven van hoe doorwerking bij praktijkgericht onderzoek eruit kan zien en hoe het tot stand komt. Het onderzoek is uitgevoerd in opdracht van, en gefinancierd door, Regieorgaan SIA met het uitdrukkelijke doel dat het regieorgaan …

Verzorgenden en verpleegkundigen lopen al meer dan honderd jaar voorop in infectiepreventie. Dat was recent nog te zien bij de bestrijding van covid­19. Vanaf rond 1900 tot in de jaren vijftig speelden ze een cruciale rol in het opsporen, voorkomen en bestrijden van ‘volksvijand nummer 1’: tuberculose …