Publications by authors named "Helena Verheyen"

Background Providing person centered care for elderly persons with dementia in residential care settings is challenging. Furthermore, little insight exists into how employees apply person centered care.Goal Map the provision of person centered care for elderly persons with dementia by employees in nursing homes in the Dutch speaking part of Belgium.

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Stress has become an inherent aspect of the nursing profession. Chronically experienced work stress can lead to burnout. Although situational stressors show a significant influence on burnout, their power to predict the complete syndrome is rather limited.

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Background: The multitude of negative consequences of nurse burnout calls for interventions to protect the well-being of the individual nurses, patients, and hospital organizations. However, much is still to be discovered about the development of this complex psychological syndrome.

Purpose: This study aimed to describe the development of nurse burnout for a population of Flemish hospital nurses while considering vulnerability and situational stressors as indicated by the vulnerability-stress model.

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