Publications by authors named "Nicolle P G Boumans"

Background: Because of an expected increase in the number of family caregivers, there is a growing public and scientific interest in family caregiving and more specifically in the combination of family care with paid employment. It is important to gain insight in the family caregivers' strain and determining factors in the job and family domain.

Aim: The aim of the study was to examine the associations of job and family demands and job and family resources with indicators of caregivers' psychological strain, that is caregiver burden, work-related emotional exhaustion and general ill mental health.

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Background: Most young carer studies on parentification, resilience and coping concentrated on child carers up to age 18 years, whereas the group of young adult caregivers (18-24 years) has been neglected. In our study, we focused on these young adult caregivers, who are in a life phase in which young people usually are distancing themselves from their families and are striving for autonomy and freedom.

Aim: To explore young adult carers' perceptions of parentification, resilience and coping compared to young adult noncarers.

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Aims: This study compared the work-related experiences and personal health status of double-duty caregivers with those of caregivers who do not provide informal care to a family member or close friend in need.

Background: The interest in providing informal care alongside employment is growing. However, little attention has been paid to the dual role of the healthcare professional who also has caregiving responsibilities for a needy person in his/her private situation.

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This study investigated the influence of age on the relationship between work characteristics and workers' work motivation and job satisfaction. In total, 1036 workers of a Dutch division of a multinational organization participated. Data were collected by a digital questionnaire.

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Aim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to determine if satisfaction with irregular working hours that are a form of shiftwork operates as a mediator between work and home characteristics and health problems.

Background: Shiftwork contributes to health problems, decreased well-being and poorer health habits. It also affects employees' decisions to leave the healthcare sector.

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This study reports an investigation of the conditions for a successful introduction of a resident-oriented care model on six somatic and psychogeriatric intervention wards in three Dutch nursing homes. This study aims to answer the following research question: 'What are the conditions for successfully implementing resident-oriented care?' To answer the research question, the organisational change process was monitored by using the '7-S' model of Peters and Waterman as a diagnostic framework. Based on this model, the following change characteristics were studied: structure, strategy, systems, staff, skills, style and shared values.

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Aim: This paper is a report of a study to gain insight into older nurses' retirement intentions and to establish factors determining early retirement intention in these individuals.

Background: In many developed countries, the working population is ageing. This will lead to a structural labour shortage in the near future.

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Background: In nursing homes there is a gradual move from traditional care to integrated care. Integrated care means a demand-oriented, small-scale, co-operated and coordinated provision of services by different caregivers. This integration has direct effect on the work of these separate disciplines.

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Background: In a resident-oriented care model the assignment of patients to primary nurses takes place. These primary nurses are responsible for the total nursing care of their patients and make use of the nursing process. According to job demand-control models, these enlarged and enriched jobs can be described in terms of autonomy, job demands and social support, and the presence of these work characteristics has a positive influence on workers' psychological and behavioural outcomes.

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This article describes a quantitative study of the relationship between differentiated practice on the one side and patient-oriented care and quality of work on the other. Nursing wards where differentiated practice has been implemented (intervention group) have been compared with wards where differentiated practice has not been implemented (reference group). The research variables with regard to differentiated practice, patient-oriented care and quality of work have been measured by questionnaires.

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