Background: The number of people with multiple chronic conditions receiving primary care services is growing. To deal with their increasingly complex health care demands, professionals from different disciplines need to collaborate. Interprofessional team (IPT) meetings are becoming more popular. Several …

BACKGROUND: Recent evidence suggests that an increase in baccalaureate-educated registered nurses (BRNs) leads to better quality of care in hospitals. For geriatric long-term care facilities such as nursing homes, this relationship is less clear. Most studies assessing the relationship between nurse …

BACKGROUND: Nursing home residents are mainly inactive. Nursing staff can encourage residents to perform functional activities during daily care activities. This study examines 1) the extent to which nursing staff perceive that they encourage functional activity in nursing home residents and 2) the …

Parents have a vital influence on the participation of their child with a physical disability. The aim of this study is to gain insight into parents’ own daily actions, challenges, and needs while supporting their child with a physical disability at home, at school, and in the community. An additional …

De uitkomsten van het in 2008 gestarte onderzoek PREvention Decline in Older Cardiac Surgery patients (PREDOCS) waren positief. Daarom is in 2016 een implementatiestudie van start gegaan in twaalf hartoperatiecentra in Nederland. In dit artikel zetten de auteurs eerst uiteen wat dit programma ter voorbereiding …

Leiderschap en uitoefenen van invloed ten behoeve van de verpleegkundige beroepsgroep. Daarbij worden verschillende beïnvloedingstechnieken behandeld.

Although nursing has been an academic discipline for decades, the infrastructure for nursing research in many countries is still fragile and struggling. Postdoctoral nurses have difficulties developing sustaining careers in nursing research due to lack of career opportunities. Considerable research has …

Introductie van de meest voorkomende leiderschapstheorieën en -modellen. Een korte geschiedenis van het denken over leiderschap en management, en een uitnodiging aan de lezer om hetzelfde te doen. Wat betekent verpleegkundig leiderschap voor de patiënt en zijn familie, voor collega-verpleegkundigen en …

Objectives Meta-analyses using individual patient data (IPD) rather than aggregated data are increasingly applied to analyze sources of heterogeneity between trials and have only recently been applied to unravel multicomponent, complex interventions. This study reflects on methodological challenges …