Bachelor-prepared nurses are expected to be competent in moral deliberation and decision-making (MDD) in clinical practice. It is unclear, however, how this competence develops in nursing students. This study explores the development of nursing students’ competence for participating in organized forms …

In de geestelijke gezondheidszorg wordt in toenemende mate wetenschappelijk onderzoek gedaan, vooral in het kader van opleidingen. Er is onbekendheid met de regelgeving en ethiek bij beginnend onderzoekers. Zorgvuldige overwegingen - conform de richtlijnen voor good clinical practice (gcp) en medisch-ethische …

Reliability in decision making about intervention plans is a necessary condition for evidence-based probation work and equal treatment of offenders. Structuring decision making can improve agreement between clinical decision makers. In a former study however, we found that in Dutch probation practice …

Clinical practice guidelines are considered important instruments to improve quality of care. However, success is dependent on adherence, which may be improved using peer assessment, a strategy in which professionals assess performance of their peers in a simulated setting. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this …

Background: Peer Assessment (PA) in health professions education encourages students to develop a critical attitude towards their own and their peers’ performance. We designed a PA task to assess students' clinical skills (including reasoning, communication, physical examination and treatment skills) …

Background: Post-term pregnancy, a pregnancy exceeding 294 days or 42 completed weeks, is associated with increased perinatal morbidity and mortality and is considered a high-risk condition which requires specialist surveillance and induction of labour. However, there is uncertainty on the policy …

Background: Motor learning is central to domains such as sports and rehabilitation; however, often terminologies are insufficiently uniform to allow effective sharing of experience or translation of knowledge. A study using a Delphi technique was conducted to ascertain level of agreement between experts …

This report looks at the SEIN Course on Clinical Epileptology. This is an annual two-week course, which has been running since 2010. It offers young doctors with an interest in epilepsy, from low- and middle-income countries, the opportunity to follow a short, but practical and compact training in clinical …

RATIONALE: Current developments drive dieticians in the primary care setting to demonstrate their effectiveness to both patients and stakeholders. Working with SMART (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, Time-bound) goal setting may increase effectiveness. This study describes the current dietetic …

Let op het is Open Access maar met speciale Elsevier user rights, zie https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies/open-access-licenses/elsevier-user-license Background The presence of a comorbid borderline personality disorder (BPD) may be associated with an increase of suicidal behaviors in patients …