Professional identity formation of medical students in relation to older persons' healthcare: exploring the views of older persons living in the Netherlands - a qualitative study.

Objectives: Given the growing population of older persons, medical students need to develop an appropriate professional identity to comply with older persons' healthcare needs. In this study, we explored the needs and expectations of older persons regarding their doctor to gain more insight into the characteristics of this professional identity.

Design: A qualitative study based on a constructivist research paradigm was conducted, based on individual semistructured, in-depth interviews using a letter as a prompt, and focus groups.

Becoming a physician for older patients: exploring the professional identity formation of medical students during a nursing home clerkship. A qualitative study.

Background: To prepare medical students for the growing population of older patients, an appropriate professional identity formation is desirable. The community of practice of medical school is primarily hospital-based and disease-oriented which will lead to the development of a physician who is mainly focused on cure. This focus alone however is not always appropriate for older persons' health care.

Professional identity formation of medical students in relation to the care of older persons: a review of the literature.

With the growing population of older persons, medical students have to be well prepared for older persons' health care during medical school. Becoming a doctor is an interplay of building competencies and developing a professional identity. Professional identity formation of medical students is a relatively new educational concept in geriatric medical education.

Coming to Grips-How Nurses Deal With Restlessness, Confusion, and Physical Restraints on a Neurological/Neurosurgical Ward.

Physical restraints are viewed as potentially dangerous objects for patient safety. Contemporary efforts mainly focus on preventing bad outcomes in restraint use, while little attention is paid under what circumstances physical restraints are applied harmlessly. The aim of this research was to understand how physical restraints are used by neurology/neurosurgery ward nurses in relation to the protocol.

Aligning work-as-imagined and work-as-done using FRAM on a hospital ward: a roadmap.

Introduction: Modern safety approaches in healthcare differentiate between daily practice (work-as-done) and the written rules and guidelines (work-as-imagined) as a means to further develop patient safety. Research in this area has shown case study examples, but to date lacks hooking points as to how results can be embedded within the studied context. This study uses Functional Analysis Resonance Method (FRAM) for aligning work-as-imagined with the work-as-done.

Use of a knowledge broker to establish healthy public policies in a city district: a developmental evaluation.

Background: Public health is to a large extent determined by non-health-sector policies. One approach to address this apparent paradox is to establish healthy public policies. This requires policy makers in non-health sectors to become more aware of the health impacts of their policies, and more willing to adopt evidence-informed policy measures to improve health.