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Our mission statement is “To have a significant scientific and societal impact on allied health and nursing care to improve functioning and participation of people, leading to real-world innovations in health and healthcare”.
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Scope and area of work
Our focus is on the meaningful functioning and participation of the person, in line with the daily care we provide in the Radboud University Medical Center and with our chain partners.
Read moreScope and area of work
The paramedical and nursing research and education of the R&E group Allied Health & Nursing Sciences focuses on the meaningful functioning and participation of the person, in line with the daily care we provide in the Radboud University Medical Center and with our chain partners. Our research starts from practice with clinically relevant research questions that contribute to paramedical and nursing care, in which the self-direction and context of daily functioning and participation of the caregiver and his or her caregiver take center stage. Paramedics and nurses show leadership and have a say in delivering and organizing value-driven, evidence-based and person-centered innovative care, supported by researchers embedded in a professional and innovative organization, some of whom are also still in practice.
The R&E group Allied Health & Nursing Sciences facilitates that paramedics and nurses deliver excellent evidence-based care in a learning organization, where care professionals and paramedical and nursing researchers working in practice inspire each other, show leadership and ownership to develop, implement and evaluate person-centered, innovative and appropriate care to promote (daily) functioning, self-direction and participation of vulnerable target groups. In addition, the patient and/or family caregiver is increasingly a partner in scientific research projects, within quality improvement projects and within the education of healthcare professionals.
Chairs/RGLs
- Occupational Therapy Research - Maud Graff
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- Person-centered strategies for evaluating complex interventions - Thomas Hoogeboom
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- Appropriate Nursing Care for Surgical Patients - Getty Huisman-deWaal
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- Nursing Science - Hester Vermeulen
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- Allied Health Sciences - Philip van der Wees
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- Nursing Science Acute and Intensive Care - Mark van den Boogaard
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- Hearing & Implants - Wendy Huinck
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- Dietetics and transmural nutritional care - Harriët Jager-Wittenaar
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- Rehabilitation in Amputation - Ruud Leijendekkers
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Projects
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Evaluation of paramedical recovery care for patients with COVID-19
More information can be found at the project website.
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More positive health in identifying mechanisms of action and developing and evaluating sustainable dementia-friendly communities.
Learn more at the project website.
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Improved person-centered care by supporting self-direction in meaningful daily activities of people with dementia and family caregivers by nursing and caregiving in collaboration with occupational therapy both in the nursing home and at home.
Learn more at the project website.
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Personalized rehabilitation via novel AI patient stratfication strategies.
More information can be found on the project website.
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Distilling knowledge and experience from regional projects and other relevant COVID-19 initiatives to design person-centered, affordable, widely accessible and effective COVID care in the region
More information can be found at the project website.
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Paramedic primary care (PAR-EL) consortium for improving social participation of people with one or more chronic conditions
More information can be found at the project website.
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Developing a roadmap for subsitution and prevention of (more expensive) care by primary paramedical care
More information can be found on the project website.
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Beter Laten en Beter Doen lists and information, inspiration and tools to get started with Beter Laten.
Find more information on the project website.
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Evaluation of awareness and application of guidelines in district nursing
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De-implementing unnecessary care acts in district nursing care
Find more information on the projectwebsite.
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Designing a stepped care intervention based on collaborative decision-making for the selection of a leg prosthesis, and evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of this approach.
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Collecting, compiling and sharing knowledge experiences with reablement projects in practice and gaining insight into the experiences of clients, relatives and caregivers, monitoring outcomes at the level of clients, relatives, caregivers and use of care. Contributing to the definition and delineation of reablement compared to regular care.
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Interprofessional management of (risk of) malnutrition and sarcopenia in elderly people living at home
Find more information on the projectwebsite.
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Self- & Peer Assessment to Reflect on Quality Standards in District Nursing
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Development of Guideline on Compression Techniques in District Nursing
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Continued development of pilot implementations in district nursing
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Collecting bottlenecks regarding the design of public space for people with vision problems and making recommendations for research questions for the Knowledge about Vision (Kennis over Zien) agenda.
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Academic nurses who combine a Bedside job with Research In Daily practice for Gathering Evidence
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Establishing an international network to develop an evidence-based knowledge platform on person-centered reablement dementia care.
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In the project Improve! IQ Health filtered which actions regarding pain and wound care could be proven to be either done and better not done from guidelines, quality standards and CAT booklets.
Find more information on the projectwebsite.
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Improved care in people with brain injury at home, through implementation and evaluation of a paramedical guideline for brain injury in CVA networks.
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Encourage collaborative decision-making by physical therapists through the use of data and innovative tools
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COme aNd Take the pROfessional Lead: This project strengthens nurses to develop ownership in EB care (with quality standards) in pain and sleep, using action research in 2 teams in the hospital.
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Vilans – IQ project: appropriate care with appropriate interventions
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Developing tools to increase the trustworthiness of physical therapy research
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Bedside ultrasound assessment of gastric content.
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Patient participation in nutrition and mobility in the hospital.
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Longer actively living at home of frail elderly caregivers by improving their meaningful functioning and participation based on LAT Reablement program
Find more information on the projectwebsite.
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Making (oral) health data available and connected, thereby enabling the establishment of relationships between data so that dentists and dental hygienists can exchange information with primary care providers.
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Virtual Reality in source isolated patients and in patients undergoing coloscopy.
Find more information on the projectwebsite.
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Nursing roles in managing malnutrition - Malnutrition Knowledge Center (Kenniscentrum Ondervoeding)
Find more information on the projectwebsite.
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Improving psychosocial care using Nurse Sensitive Indicators
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Development of a non-medical standard of care/ self-management program for patients with coronary vascular dysfunction
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Quality of life after autologous breast reconstruction.
Initial education
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In this course, we teach the basics of evidence-based practice to second-year biomedical sciences and medical students.
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In this course, we teach the basics of evidence-based practice to second-year medical students specifically focused on development and use of evidence-based guidelines.
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In this course, Master biomedical science students are challenged to think critically about the purpose and value of science.
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This course introduces master's students in medicine and biomedical sciences to (patient-reported) outcome measurements in healthcare.
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This teaching introduces master's students of medicine and biomedical sciences to clinical reasoning and movement analysis from a physical therapy perspective.
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This course introduces medical and biomedical science students to social policy and evidence-based care and healthcare professionals (nursing, family physician, occupational therapy, physical therapy) in various disease states/target populations.
Education on evidence-based occupational therapy in the elderly & interdisciplinary psychosocial and paramedical interventions in the elderly in relation to social policy and funding.
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This course introduces medical master's students to rehabilitation in neurological and neuromuscular disorders.
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This course introduces exercise science students to applications and challenges of research within rehabilitation.
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This course introduces undergraduate medical students to clinical exercise science.
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The research integrity rounds address various aspects of scientific integrity.
Post-initial education
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Education for healthcare professionals, people with dementia and family caregivers and other interested parties. Presentations on various evidence-based occupational therapies and psychosocial and paramedical interventions in people with dementia and frail elderly people.
Collaborations
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NEON stands for Netwerk Ergotherapie Onderzoekers Nijmegen (Network of Occupational Therapy Researchers Nijmegen)
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European Network of Researchers on Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia
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Arnhem and Nijmegen University of Applied Sciences. The chairs of Occupational Therapy, Paramedic Science and Nursing Science are affiliated with the HAN. Cooperation in the field of education and research. Participation in professional field committees of paramedical and nursing programs.
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Guidelines Network Netherlands. Participation in and network of organizations and individuals developing and implementing guidelines.
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Physical Therapy Science Initiative Group.
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Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy. Collaboration with the professional association on effectiveness, quality and implementation.
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Physical Therapy Hallmark Foundation. Collaboration with the professional association on effectiveness, quality and implementation.
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Dutch Association for Speech Therapy and Phoniatrics. Collaboration with professional association on effectiveness, quality and implementation.
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Occupational Therapy Netherlands. Collaboration with professional association on effectiveness, quality and implementation.
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Dutch Association of Dietitians. Collaboration with the professional association on effectiveness, quality and implementation.
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Netherlands Institute for Healthcare Research. Cooperation in the field of (primary) health care research.
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Collaboration on quality of care and learning organizations.
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Nurses & Caregivers Netherlands. Collaboration with professional association on effectiveness, quality and implementation.
Consultancy/services
If you are interested in consultations or services from an R&E group, please fill out our request form.
We provide:
- Guideline development and implementation
- (Complex) intervention development for appropriate care
- Networking with first- second- and third-line providers
- Care evaluations
- Applied data science projects
- Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and outcome measures (PROMs) (view website)
- Delphi studies
- Learning health system studies
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Philip van der Wees Professor of paramedical sciences
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Hester Vermeulen Professor of nursing science
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