Effects of selective taste steering of bread and soups on quality of life in adult cancer outpatients who experience chemotherapy-induced taste alterations.

Purpose: To investigate the effectiveness of selective taste steering (STS) to hyper personalize bread and soup for adult cancer outpatients with chemotherapy-induced taste alterations.

Methods: This multicentre study included two groups of adult cancer outpatients with CiTA, all receiving dietary advice as standard care. In one group, STS was applied to bread and soups for three months.

Health literacy: What lessons can be learned from the experiences and policies of different countries?

Background: Adequate levels of health literacy (HL) are crucial to ensure good quality of health, social life and wellbeing. HL is a mediating factor in health disparities. Low HL hampers interaction with healthcare.

A Tool to Assess the Trustworthiness of Evidence-Based Point-of-Care Information for Health Care Professionals (CAPOCI): Design and Validation Study.

Background: User-friendly information at the point of care for health care professionals should be well structured, rapidly accessible, comprehensive, and trustworthy. The reliability of information and the associated methodological process must be clear. There is no standard tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of such point-of-care (POC) information.

A qualitative study about cancer outpatients' experiences with selective taste control of bread as a self-care intervention.

Aim: Alterations in taste are distressing side effects for cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. The Center for Gastrology (Belgium) developed a self-care intervention based on taste control. This intervention contains an assessment of the individual taste and food hedonics.

Tools to Assess the Trustworthiness of Evidence-Based Point-of-Care Information for Health Care Professionals: Systematic Review.

Background: User-friendly information at the point of care should be well structured, rapidly accessible, and comprehensive. Also, this information should be trustworthy, as it will be used by health care practitioners to practice evidence-based medicine. Therefore, a standard, validated tool to evaluate the trustworthiness of such point-of-care information resources is needed.

Improving mental healthcare for the elderly in Belgium.

Introduction: The organisation of mental healthcare for the elderly (MHCE) remains suboptimal.

Objective: To identify specific organisational models that could address the mental healthcare needs of the elderly in community and primary care.

Method: A multi-modal approach, consisting of a literature review, an online survey of Belgian professional stakeholders, and an international comparison.

The Belgian Evidence-Based Practice Program: network governance to improve efficiency and effectiveness of evidence-based practice uptake.

In 2016, the Belgian Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health decided to set up a central governance structure for evidence-based practice (EBP). The underlying model, consisting of six EBP life cycle cells (prioritization, development, validation, dissemination, implementation and evaluation) and a bipolar governance layer was developed in 2017. Based on the characteristics of the Belgian EBP landscape, a network administrative organization was chosen to coordinate and facilitate the operational processes in the EBP life cycle and act as intermediate between the two forces: stakeholders and funders/policy makers.

Perception of Belgian nurses about evidence-based clinical practice implementation: a focus group study.

Background/objectives: Despite recommendations to integrate evidence-based practice into nursing care, evidence-based nursing (EBN) implementation is generally lacking. Strategies for developing an EBN implementation plan require an evaluation of nurses' needs and expectations. The aim of this study was to evaluate how Belgian nurses perceive EBN.

Predictors of occupational stress and well-being in First-Line Nurse Managers: A cross-sectional survey study.

Background: First-line nurse managers have a pivotal role in the organization of health care but have to deal with significant job-related issues and problems in a changing and challenging health care environment. As their new roles are complex and often unclear, it might be expected that these professionals are at risk for occupational stress.

Objectives: The objective of this study is to analyze and describe relationships between job characteristics, and also interdisciplinary conflicts with physicians as potential predictors of occupational well-being (job satisfaction, psychosomatic distress, turnover intention, work engagement and burnout).

Emergency room nurses' pathway to turnover intention: a moderated serial mediation analysis.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore the association between the quality of the work environment, job characteristics, demographic characteristics and a pathway of job satisfaction, emotional exhaustion and turnover intention among nurses in emergency departments and perform subgroup analyses.

Background: Turnover intention among nurses is high. Multiple causes have been described, mostly in large studies of nurses working on general wards, often without considering complementarity of conceptual models and showing scant interest in the consistency of associations across subgroups of nurses.

Association of goal orientation with work engagement and burnout in emergency nurses.

Objectives: Goal orientation is a mindset towards the achievement of work-related goals, and it has been found to be related to occupational well-being. This study explored to what extent the 4-dimensional model of goal orientation adds additional variance to the explanation of burnout and work engagement in emergency nurses, after controlling for demographics, job characteristics and organizational variables.

Methods: Self-report questionnaires including the Leiden Quality of Work Questionnaire for Nurses, Goal Orientation Questionnaire, Maslach Burnout Inventory and Utrecht Work Engagement Scale were completed by 170 out of 274 emergency nurses from 13 secondary Belgian hospitals (response rate 62%).

Determinants and prevalence of burnout in emergency nurses: a systematic review of 25 years of research.

Background: Burnout is an important problem in health care professionals and is associated with a decrease in occupational well-being and an increase in absenteeism, turnover and illness. Nurses are found to be vulnerable to burnout, but emergency nurses are even more so, since emergency nursing is characterized by unpredictability, overcrowding and continuous confrontation with a broad range of diseases, injuries and traumatic events.

Objectives: This systematic review aims (1) to explore the prevalence of burnout in emergency nurses and (2) to identify specific (individual and work related) determinants of burnout in this population.

Impact of evidence and health policy on nursing practice.

The story of evidence-based practice in nursing is long, with many successes, contributors, leaders, scientists, and enthusiasts. Nurse educators have great advantages offered from a wide variety of educational resources for evidence-based practice. These resources offer students the opportunity to connect their emerging competencies with clinical needs for best practices in clinical and microsystem changes.

Do telemonitoring projects of heart failure fit the Chronic Care Model?

Unlabelled: This study describes the characteristics of extramural and transmural telemonitoring projects on chronic heart failure in Belgium. It describes to what extent these telemonitoring projects coincide with the Chronic Care Model of Wagner.

Background: The Chronic Care Model describes essential components for high-quality health care.

Impact of role-, job- and organizational characteristics on Nursing Unit Managers' work related stress and well-being.

Aim: To study the impact of role, job- and organizational characteristics on nurse managers' work related stress and well-being such as feelings of emotional exhaustion, work engagement, job satisfaction and turnover intention.

Background: Various studies investigated role-, job- and organizational characteristics influencing nurse-related work environments. Research on nurse managers' related work environments define influencing factors, but, a clear understanding of the impact of nurse-managers' work-environment characteristics on their work related stress and well-being is limited.

Causes and consequences of occupational stress in emergency nurses, a longitudinal study.

Aim: This longitudinal study examines the influence of changes over time in work and organisational characteristics on job satisfaction, work engagement, emotional exhaustion, turnover intention and psychosomatic distress in emergency room nurses.

Background: Organisational and job characteristics of nurses are important predictors of stress-health outcomes. Emergency room nurses are particularly exposed to stressful work-related events and unpredictable work conditions.

The impact of traumatic events on emergency room nurses: findings from a questionnaire survey.

Background: Emergency Nurses are routinely confronted with work related traumatic events and hectic work conditions. Several studies report a high prevalence of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in these nurses. Coping and social support seem to play an important role in the development of PTSD.

Exploring the burden of emergency care: predictors of stress-health outcomes in emergency nurses.

Aims: This paper is a report of a study that examines (1) whether emergency nurses differ from a general hospital nursing comparison group in terms of job and organizational characteristics and (2) to what extent these characteristics predict job satisfaction, turnover intention, work engagement, fatigue and psychosomatic distress in emergency nurses.

Background: The work environment and job characteristics of nurses are important predictors of stress-health outcomes. Emergency nurses are particularly exposed to stressful events and unpredictable work conditions.