Makercosmos is a four-year maker education programme in Arnhem, the Netherlands, which comprises the development of series of maker education lessons and participatory action research about learning in maker education, among other activities. This study reports findings from the first pilot of this series, …

The Nedap Healthcare business unit is developing a mobile wound recognition solution named Vesalius using Kotlin, Python and tools / libraries such as Anaconda and TensorFlow Lite in order to utilize machine learning to determine the boundary of a wound as bitmap based on its picture.This solution is …

For this research project I had the opportunity to join home nurses on their rounds for participant observations. Nurses are confronted with older patient’s meaning in life (MiL), or the lack thereof, on a daily basis. However, knowledge about these situations, and education regarding this subject, is …

Aims and objectives: To explore how excellent nurses in hospitals take into account patient preferences in nursing decision-making in the evidence-based practice towards personalized care. Background: In evidence-based practice, nursing decision-making is based on scientific evidence, evidence of …

Purpose: To describe nurses' support interventions for medication adherence, and patients' experiences and desired improvements with this care. Patients and methods: A two-phase study was performed, including an analysis of questionnaire data and conducted interviews with members of the care panel of …

This study explored what contributes to successful family foster care from the perspective of young people by asking them about their most positive memory of family foster care. Forty-four Dutch adolescents and young adults (aged 16–28) participated in this study and shared their most positive memory …

Purpose:  As recovery time after oncological surgery can be long, family caregivers often play an important role in the delivery of care after patients’ discharge. To prepare carers for this role, we developed a family involvement program (FIP) to enhance their active involvement in post-surgical oncology …

One of the tasks for higher education is to prepare students for their role in a changing world and to stimulate them to develop broader competencies than only in their own discipline. There are many initiatives in which existing curricula are redesigned to prepare students for this changing world. These …

Wine consumption is decreasing for many decades, but organic products demand is increasing. To counter the image of Spanish wines which is “poor quality and cheap wines” because of their big quantity production and their low prices, Spanish wine producers change their farming method. Spain ranks first …

Objective: To gain insight into patient participation in general practice by examining if and how patients' question-asking behaviour has changed over the years (2007-2016). Methods: A random set of real-life video-recorded consultations collected in 2015-2016 (n = 437) was observed and compared with …