Aim: Provide insight into the concept of stress in the context of challenging behaviour of nursing home residents with dementia and its causes and consequences. Background: Challenging behaviour is frequent in residents with dementia, but consequences for nursing staff are unclear. Introduction: Challenging …

Objectives: To systematically review interventions that aim to improve the governance of patient safety within emergency care on effectiveness, reliability, validity and feasibility. Design: A systematic review of the literature. Methods: PubMed, EMBASE, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health …

While acute musculoskeletal pain is a frequent complaint, its management is often neglected. An implementation of a nurse-initiated pain protocol based on the algorithm of a Dutch pain management guideline in the emergency department might improve this. A pre-post intervention study was performed as …

Facilitating persons with a chronic condition to take an active role in the management of their condition, implicates that nurses acquire new competencies. An instrument that can validly and reliably measure nurses’ performance and their perceived capacity to perform self-management support is needed …

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 …

Quantified Self staat voor de zelfmetende mens. Het aantal mensen dat met zelf gegeneerde gezondheidsgegevens het zorgproces binnenwandelt gaat de komende jaren groeien. Verschillende soorten activity trackers en gezondheidsapplicaties voor de smartphone maken het relatief eenvoudig om persoonlijke gegevens …

Teaching Quantified Self methods to health care undergraduates. Breakout session at Quantified Self Conference, 18-19 September 2015, Amsterdam. We’ll share highlights of our three years of experience in teaching n=1 and self-experimentation to allied health care and nursing undergraduates. We’d love …

AIMS: To unravel outpatient nurses' views on the role of people with chronic conditions in self-management, nurses' own support role and to establish how these views relate to nurse-led self-management interventions. BACKGROUND: Providing self-management support is a core task of nurses in outpatient …

AbstractDid I understand it right? This research is focused on the client’s experience of hospitality connected to foodservice employees in mental healthcare organisations. Since hospitality, part of the facility management department, is a hot topic in the field of mental healthcare, different serious …

The impact of quantified self data on Healthcare. Guest lecturer at GSMS PhD congres ‘Create your Future, Discover Talent’ Martijn de Groot (1975) is a medical biologist (MSc) with a background in teaching (MEd) and medical science (PhD). After his PhD research he has worked as a researcher, teacher …