Interprofessional practice in health care: an educational project with four learning sequences for students from six study programs.

Introduction: In response to demographic changes and the growing complexity of healthcare demands, national and international organizations are requiring greater cooperation among the health professions. Implementation of interprofessional learning programs within study programs in medicine, midwifery, nursing, and therapy is still rare. The first projects are currently underway in Germany.

A patient education program is effective in reducing cancer-related fatigue: a multi-centre randomised two-group waiting-list controlled intervention trial.

Objective: To evaluate a patient education program that aims at reducing perceived fatigue in cancer survivors.

Methods: In ten German centres, 261 patients with cancer-related fatigue were randomly assigned to a patient education program consisting of 6 sessions à 90 min or standard care. The primary outcome measure was cancer-related fatigue.

[Chronic fatigue in cancer patients].

Background: Due to improvements in long-term survival in cancer patients, emphasis is increasingly placed on chronic symptoms such as cancer-related fatigue in patients after completion of cancer treatment. Fatigue prevalence in these patients ranges from 17% to 56%. However, there is a lack of complex treatments that take the multifactorial character of fatigue causation into account.

Development and evaluation of a cancer-related fatigue patient education program: protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Cancer-related fatigue (CRF) and its impact on patients' quality of life has been an increasing subject of research. However, in Germany there is a lack of evidence-based interventions consistent with the multidimensional character of fatigue. The objective of this study is to develop and evaluate a self-management program for disease-free cancer patients to cope with CRF.

["Nursing care visit: possibilities and limits". An empirical study in Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein].

This study examines the distribution, understanding and objectives of nursing visits as well as the implementation and the experience with nursing visits in 87 hospitals in North Germany (Bremen, Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania). The survey was conducted using a questionnaire. It was found that nursing visits are implemented in 31% of the departments.