Facilitating an Evidence-Based Quality Improvement Learning Culture in Nursing Teams Through Coaching and Identification of Key Influencing Factors: An Action Research Approach.

Aims: To explore how coaching can facilitate the development of an Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) learning culture within nursing teams in hospital and community care settings. This study also explores the specific contextual factors that influence effective outcomes.

Design: Action research.

A Tailored De-Implementation Strategy to Reduce Low-Value Home-Based Nursing Care: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study.

Aim: To facilitate the delivery of appropriate care, the aim was to test if a tailored, multifaceted de-implementation strategy (RENEW) (1) would lead to less low-value nursing care and (2) was acceptable, implementable, cost effective and scalable in the home-based nursing care context.

Design: A mixed-methods design.

Methods: The RENEW strategy with components on education, persuasion, enablement, incentives and training was introduced in seven teams from two organisations in the Netherlands.

Effectiveness of the 'SELF-program' on nurses' activity encouragement behavior and nursing home resident's ADL self-reliance; a cluster-randomized trial.

Background: Nurses play a crucial role in encouraging nursing home resident's activity and independent functioning. However, nurses often take over tasks unnecessarily, which can deprive resident's remaining abilities. The Function-Focused Care philosophy offers guidance for developing programs that support nurses to optimize activity and independence of older people.

Which actions contribute to the development of an interprofessional learning and working culture in nursing homes? A realist action study.

Objective: Insights about what actions contributed to the development of an interprofessional learning and working culture were lacking for nursing homes. This study aimed to provide insight into the context and actions that trigger mechanisms for the development of an interprofessional learning and working culture in nursing homes.

Study Design: Realist evaluation action research was conducted from 2019 to 2023.

Barriers and facilitators for reducing low-value home-based nursing care: A qualitative exploratory study among homecare professionals.

Aim: To explore barriers and facilitators for reducing low-value home-based nursing care.

Design: Qualitative exploratory study.

Method: Seven focus group interviews and two individual interviews were conducted with homecare professionals, managers and quality improvement staff members within seven homecare organizations.

What is needed for nurses to work with evidence-based practice? A qualitative study.

Background: Transformation of healthcare is necessary to ensure patients receive high-quality care. Working with the evidence-based practice (EBP) principles enables nurses to make this shift. Although working according to these principles is becoming more common, nurses base their actions too much on traditions and intuition.

What can nurses learn from patient's needs and wishes when developing an evidence-based quality improvement learning culture? A qualitative study.

Background: Patient participation is fundamental in nursing care and has yielded benefits for patient outcomes. However, despite their compassionate care approach, nurses do not always incorporate patients' needs and wish into evidence-based practice, quality improvement or learning activities. Therefore, a shift to continuous quality improvement based on evidence-based practice is necessary to enhance the quality of care.

Three Years of Continuous Vital Signs Monitoring on the General Surgical Ward: Is It Sustainable? A Qualitative Study.

Continuous monitoring of vital signs using a wireless wearable device was implemented in 2018 at a surgical care unit of an academic hospital. This study aimed at gaining insight into nurses' and patients' perspectives regarding the use and innovation of a continuous vital signs monitoring system, three years after its introduction. This qualitative study was performed in a surgical, non-intensive care unit of an academic hospital in 2021.

Opportunities for Patient Participation in Perioperative Malnutrition Care: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: In the perioperative period of hospitalization, barriers to food intake are common due to special nutritional needs, compromised nutritional status, and metabolic stress. Good nutritional care call for an interdisciplinary approach. And patients themselves may also play an essential role in managing nutritional care.

Bedside nurses' perspective on the Fundamentals of Care framework and its application in clinical practice: A multi-site focus group interview study.

Background: A changing nursing workforce and an increase in demands for care together with more complex care, raise arguments that leading and guiding nursing practice is more challenging than ever. Therefore, nurses need to have a shared agenda and a common language to show the importance of nursing care and the consequences of not addressing this in an appropriate way. In response to this the Fundamentals of Care framework was developed to also contribute to the delivery of person-centred care in an integrated way.

Low-value wound care: Are nurses and physicians choosing wisely? A mixed methods study.

Background: Choosing Wisely is an international movement that stimulates conversations about unnecessary care. The campaign created five recommendations including a statement that less wound care is sometimes better.

Aims: The study aims to evaluate nurses' and physicians' adherence to the Choosing Wisely recommendations for acute wound care in the Netherlands and the barriers and facilitators to improve this.

Continuous Vital Signs Monitoring with a Wireless Device on a General Ward: A Survey to Explore Nurses' Experiences in a Post-Implementation Period.

Background: Nurse engagement, perceived need and usefulness affect healthcare technology use, acceptance and improvements in quality, safety and accessibility of healthcare. Nurses' opinions regarding continuous monitoring appear to be positive. However, facilitators and barriers were little studied.

Nurses' motivations to leave the nursing profession: A qualitative meta-aggregation.

Aim: To systematically provide an overview of the qualitative evidence available on the motivations for nurses to leave the nursing profession.

Design: A qualitative systematic review using the meta-aggregation design of the Joanna Briggs Institute.

Data Sources: Qualitative studies in English, dating from 2010 until January 2023, were obtained from CINAHL, PsycINFO and PubMed.

The Dutch version of the Oral Health Assessment Tool: Translation and inter-rater reliability among community nurses.

Objectives: Translating the Oral Health Assessment Tool (OHAT) into Dutch and assessing the inter-rater reliability among community nurses.

Methods: The original version of the OHAT was translated following the five stages of the 'Guidelines for the Process of Cross-Cultural Adaptation'. After a forward and backward translation, consensus on the pre-final version was obtained in an expert panel discussion.

Factors influencing the delivery of nutritional care by nurses for hospitalised medical patients with malnutrition; a qualitative study.

Objectives: To describe an insight into nursing nutritional care delivery in the hospital from the perspectives of observed nursing care and an exploration of multidisciplinary attitudes and experiences with patient participation in nutritional care.

Background: The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalised patients continues to be high. Nurses' essential role in the identification and treatment of malnutrition is an important aspect of the fundamentals of care.

Patient Education Regarding Fasting Recommendations to Shorten Fasting Times in Patients Undergoing Esophagogastroduodenoscopy: A Controlled Pilot Study.

This study evaluated the applicability and efficacy of patient education regarding fasting recommendations to shorten fasting times in patients undergoing esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). A prospective nonrandomized controlled pilot study was performed. The intervention group (IG) was educated by nurses to eat until 6 hours and drink until 2 hours before EGD.

Nursing leadership to facilitate patient participation in fundamental care: An ethnographic qualitative study.

Aims: To explore and describe hospital nurses' perceptions of leadership behaviours in facilitating patient participation in fundamental care.

Design: An ethnographic interview study.

Methods: Individual semi-structured interviews with 12 nurses with a bachelor's or master's degree working at a university medical centre were conducted between February and April 2021.

Effect, economic and process-evaluation of a generic function focused care program for long-term care; study protocol of a multicenter cluster-randomized trial.

Background: Nurses are in a key position to stimulate older people to maximize their functional activity and independence. However, nurses still often work in a task-oriented manner and tend to take over tasks unnecessarily. It is evident to support nurses to focus on the capabilities of older people and provide care assistance only when required.

Developing an Evidence-Based Nursing Culture in Nursing Homes: An Action Research Study.

Nursing homes face challenges caused by increasing numbers of older adults with multimorbidity and the demand for quality of care. Developing an evidence-based nursing (EBN) culture is a promising strategy to face these challenges. Therefore, the aim of this study was to develop an EBN culture in nursing homes and gain insight into the influencing factors.

Exploring infection prevention practices in home-based nursing care: A qualitative observational study.

Background: Home-based nursing care continues to expand, delivering care to increasingly older clients with multiple, chronic and complex conditions that require the use of additional and more numerous invasive medical devices. Therefore, the prevention of infections poses a challenge for nurses, professional caregivers and clients.

Objective: This article explores infection prevention practices and related behavioural factors in both nurses and clients to identify barriers and facilitators of infection prevention practices in home-based nursing care.

Hospital and home care nurses' experiences and perceptions regarding nutritional care for older adults to prevent and treat malnutrition: A cross-sectional study.

Aims And Objectives: To gain insight into the experiences and perceptions of hospital and home care nurses regarding nutritional care for older adults to prevent and treat malnutrition.

Background: In-depth knowledge about hospital and home care nurses' experiences and perceptions can contribute to optimise nutritional care for older adults across the care continuum between hospital and home to prevent and treat malnutrition.

Design: Multicentre cross-sectional descriptive study.

Identifying patients with benign chronic intestinal failure on home parenteral nutrition in whom a psychological support intervention may improve quality of life.

Rationale: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) is the ultimate treatment for patients who suffering from chronic intestinal failure (CIF). We tested the feasibility and effects of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in patients on HPN. Because of the high dropout rate, however, we were next urged to develop and test a web-based coaching program (web-based MBCT).