Improving the quality of nursing care through standardized nursing languages: Call to action across European countries.

Background: Standardized Nursing Languages (SNLs) have enabled nursing assessments and care to be better documented and visible in electronic health records (EHRs). However, its implementation is challenging and heterogeneous across clinical settings. This study aimed to demonstrate the challenges experienced by members of a European nursing organization, ACENDIO, in implementing SNLs in documentation systems across countries and offer recommendations about its use.

Task shifting in Dutch nursing practice: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of nurses' experiences.

Aim: This study aims firstly to identify shifts in the execution of medical tasks by nurses in the past decade. Secondly, it aims to explore nurses' perspectives on task shifting: how they think task shifting affects the quality of care, the attractiveness of nursing practice and their collaboration with physicians.

Design: A quantitative repeated cross-sectional study.

Home care for patients with dirty homes: a qualitative study of the problems experienced by nurses and possible solutions.

Background: Home-care nurses are often the first care professionals to enter a dirty home. The perceived problems and support needs of home-care nurses in these situations are largely unknown.

Objective: To examine the problems home-care nurses encounter in caring for patients living in dirty homes, and possible solutions for these problems.

Patient participation in electronic nursing documentation: An interview study among home-care patients.

Background: Patients are increasingly expected to take an active role in their own care. Participation in nursing documentation can support patients to take this active role since it provides opportunities to express care needs and preferences. Yet, patient participation in electronic nursing documentation is not self-evident.

Nursing documentation and its relationship with perceived nursing workload: a mixed-methods study among community nurses.

Background: The time that nurses spent on documentation can be substantial and burdensome. To date it was unknown if documentation activities are related to the workload that nurses perceive. A distinction between clinical documentation and organizational documentation seems relevant.

Home care nurses more positive about the palliative care that is provided and their own competence than hospital nurses: a nationwide survey.

Background: People often prefer to stay at home until the end of life, but hospital admissions are quite common. In previous research bereaved relatives were found to be less positive about palliative care in hospital. However, it was not known how the content and quality of palliative care differ between home care and hospitals from the perspectives of hospital nurses and home care nurses and how palliative care in these settings could be improved.

To what extent do home care nurses feel free to assess the care that is needed for their patients? A nationwide survey in the Netherlands.

Background And Aims: Patients receiving nursing care at home require a needs assessment. There are indications that practice variation exists in needs assessments performed by Dutch home care nurses. One possible cause is that nurses are differentially influenced by others when performing needs assessments.

Patient participation in electronic nursing documentation: an interview study among community nurses.

Background: Patient participation in nursing documentation has several benefits like including patients' personal wishes in tailor-made care plans and facilitating shared decision-making. However, the rise of electronic health records may not automatically lead to greater patient participation in nursing documentation. This study aims to gain insight into community nurses' experiences regarding patient participation in electronic nursing documentation, and to explore the challenges nurses face and the strategies they use for dealing with challenges regarding patient participation in electronic nursing documentation.

Use of electronic health records and standardized terminologies: A nationwide survey of nursing staff experiences.

Background: Nursing documentation could improve the quality of nursing care by being an important source of information about patients' needs and nursing interventions. Standardized terminologies (e.g.

Quality criteria, instruments, and requirements for nursing documentation: A systematic review of systematic reviews.

Aim: To obtain an overview of existing evidence on quality criteria, instruments, and requirements for nursing documentation.

Design: Systematic review of systematic reviews.

Data Sources: We systematically searched the databases PubMed and CINAHL for the period 2007-April 2017.

Attractiveness of working in home care: An online focus group study among nurses.

Many western countries are experiencing a substantial shortage of home-care nurses due to the increasing numbers of care-dependent people living at home. In-depth knowledge is needed about what home-care nurses find attractive about their work in order to make recommendations for the recruitment and retention of home-care nursing staff. The aims of this explorative, qualitative study were to gain in-depth knowledge about which aspects home-care nurses find attractive about their work and to explore whether these aspects vary for home-care nurses with different levels of education.

Do sexist organizational cultures create the Queen Bee?

'Queen Bees' are senior women in masculine organizational cultures who have fulfilled their career aspirations by dissociating themselves from their gender while simultaneously contributing to the gender stereotyping of other women. It is often assumed that this phenomenon contributes to gender discrimination in organizations, and is inherent to the personalities of successful career women. We argue for a social identity explanation and examine organizational conditions that foster the Queen Bee phenomenon.

Gender-bias primes elicit queen-bee responses among senior policewomen.

Queen bees are senior women in male-dominated organizations who have achieved success by emphasizing how they differ from other women. Although the behavior of queen bees tends to be seen as contributing to gender disparities in career outcomes, we argue that queen-bee behavior is actually a result of the gender bias and social identity threat that produce gender disparities in career outcomes. In the experiment reported here, we asked separate groups of senior policewomen to recall the presence or absence of gender bias during their careers, and we measured queen-bee responses (i.