- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Nursing education and management
- Healthcare Quality and Management
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Disaster Response and Management
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Organizational Change and Leadership
- Healthcare innovation and challenges
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering
- Health, psychology, and well-being
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Innovations in Medical Education
- Research in Social Sciences
- Clinical practice guidelines implementation
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Patient Safety and Medication Errors
Fontys University of Applied Sciences
2021-2025
University of Alberta
2022
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
2016-2021
Bohn Stafleu van Loghum (Netherlands)
2020
Werlhof Institute
2015
Lallemand (France)
2015
Abstract Background Addressing the growing challenge of nurse retention requires coordinated actions at national and global levels to improve recruitment, policies, investments in nursing work environment. The environment, defined as "organizational characteristics a setting that facilitate or constrain professional practice", is critical influencing whether nurses decide leave their jobs. This study investigates impact differentiated practices – which involved tailoring roles...
Abstract The persistence of multiple educational pathways into the nursing profession continues to occupy scholars internationally. In Netherlands, various groups within Dutch healthcare sector have tried differentiate practice on basis backgrounds for over 50 years. Proponents argue that such reforms are needed retain bachelor‐trained nurses, improve quality care and strengthen nurses' position in sector. Opponents actively resisted because they would mainly benefit nurses neglect practical...
Most nurse leadership studies have concentrated on a classical, heroic, and hierarchical view of leadership. However, critical argued the need for more insight into in daily nursing practices. Nurses must align their professional standards opinions quality care with those other professionals, management, patients. They want to achieve better outcomes patients but also feel disciplined controlled. To deal this, nurses challenge status quo by showing rebel In this paper, we describe 47 nurses'...
Shared governance in hospitals promotes the inclusion of nurses' expertise, knowledge and skills organisational processes, nurses increasingly fulfil positions hierarchies. However, incorporating nursing expertise strategic structures might be complicated, as these are primarily linked to managerial biomedical expertise. Drawing on a Foucauldian perspective power, intertwined embedded everyday (inter)actions, we study how newly appointed directors challenge dominant 'modes knowing'. By...
Introduction The rising global demand for district nursing care necessitates effective strategies to support evidence-based decision-making. Despite the extensive development of guidelines, adherence by teams remains suboptimal, revealing a gap between guideline and daily practice. Learning And Reflection Nurses (LEARN) programme aims bridge this enhancing use fostering learning attitude among teams. This protocol outlines programme’s development, components evaluation approach. Methods...
Abstract Some nurses are responding rebelliously to the changing healthcare landscape by challenging status quo and deviating from suboptimal practices, professional norms, organizational rules. While some view rebel nurse leadership as traditional structures improve patient care, others see it disruptive harmful. These diverging opinions create dilemmas for managers in daily practice. To understand context, dilemmas, interactions leadership, we conducted a multiple case study two Dutch...
Abstract Objective This study aims to better understand how new future‐oriented nursing roles are enacted in a general hospital. Design A learning history, that is, participatory action‐oriented research design explore and foster organizational learning. Methods Data collection consisted of (historical) document analysis, the shadowing differentiated practices (36 h), 22 open interviews, 4 oral history 2 focus groups podcast series (7 h) created with participants. Results The data gathered...
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences and impact peer-to-peer shadowing as a technique develop nurse middle managers’ clinical leadership practices. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative descriptive conducted gain insight into managers using semi-structured interviews. Data were analysed codes constant comparison similar grouped under sub-themes then four broader themes. Findings Peer-to-peer facilitates collective reflection-in-action enhances an “investigate...
To understand how nurses perceived the contributions of Dutch Excellent Care Program, development nurses' leadership, and their ability to positively influence work environment. Research shows that nursing environment influences job satisfaction, retention, quality care. Many countries have created programs such as Program improve leadership facilitate a positive A descriptive qualitative study based on 17 semistructured group interviews (participants N = 52) directed content analysis using...
Nurse clinician-scientists are increasingly expected to show leadership aimed at transforming healthcare. However, research on nurse clinician-scientists' (integrating researcher and practitioner roles) is scarce hardly embedded in sociohistorical contexts. This study introduces moments, that is, concrete events practices perceived as acts of empowerment, order understand the daily work newly appointed clinician-scientists. Following learning history method we gathered data using multiple...
Nurse middle managers are in an ideal position to facilitate patient‐centred care. However, their contribution is underexposed literature due difficulties articulate this practice. This paper explores how nurse contribute care hospitals. A combination of time‐use analysis and ethnographic work was used disclose at a micro level. Sixteen were shadowed for over 560 hours four Some seldom Others involved direct patient care, but does not result practices. At one hospital, the did Here balancing...
Abstract In this article, we reconstruct a Dutch case in which policymakers, experts, and professional organizations proposed to amend law so as differentiate between different kinds of nurses the work they do. doing so, specifically sought support reposition higher educated nurses. The amendment was met with fierce opposition from within nursing community, however, eventually withdrawn. Drawing on interviews key actors debate an analysis policy documents social media platforms, what...
This study aims to enhance understanding of the collaboration between chairs nurse councils (CNCs) and members executive hospital boards (BM) from a relational leadership perspective.The authors used qualitative interpretive methodology. The daily interactions BM CNCs seven Dutch hospitals through lens. combination observations, interviews document analysis. author's analysis was grasp process collaborating CNCs.Knowing each other, relating with are distinct but intertwined processes that...
Abstract Talk by members of executive hospital boards influences the organizational positioning nurses. is a relational leadership practice. Using qualitative‐interpretive design we organized focus group meetings wherein (7), nurses (14), physicians and managers (6), from 15 Dutch hospitals, discussed nursing during COVID crisis. We found that consider in crisis task themselves not as collective, interdependent, and/or specific board responsibility. Furthermore, talk about profession (1)...
A Magnet-related program has been recently adopted in the Netherlands. Support for staff nurses from nurse middle managers (NMMs) is a key component of such program. Bourdieusian ethnographic organizational case study 4 hospitals Netherlands and United States (Magnet, Magnet-related, non-Magnet) was conducted to explore NMMs' supporting role behavior. Bourdieus concepts habitus, field, capital guided analysis. Eight dispositions constitute NMMs habitus. caring, clinical, scientific...
Background: Heroic and harmonious leadership display is dominant in the nursing governance literature. This cloaks tensions that structure, relations context create for nurses involved hospital crises. Relational used as a perspective to show complexity position voice themselves during crisis, when traditional structures are absent relational work becomes central.ObjectiveThe aim enhance understanding of how with amidst crises.DesignWe conducted qualitative-interpretive interview focus group...
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 less relations in practice with nurses. Nurses are often valued for bedside care but overlooked strategic decision-making during Foundational research emphasizes need nurses' equal participation interprofessional healthcare practices governance. Methods: We conducted a qualitative interpretive interview...
District nurses have a crucial position in healthcare provision and are expected to use leadership practices ensure optimal quality patient care. To better equip them, program named the ambassador project was developed support development of liaison role between policy district nursing practice. This research aims evaluate from different perspectives impact this nationwide, five-year for at organizational, regional, societal levels. A mixed-methods study conducted using two focus groups...