The COMFORT scale is a measurement tool to assess distress, sedation and pain in nonverbal paediatric patients. Several studies have described the COMFORT scale, but no formal assessment of the methodological quality has been undertaken. Therefore, we performed a systematic review to study the clinimetric …

Sowing the “SEEDS” of excellent performance: developing and implementing a profile of competence characteristics for the “excellent” communication professional.Presentation at the Annual Congress of the European Public Relations Education and Research Association, Groningen. September 29th - October …

This thesis is written for Rical Cleaning products, a Dutch company that is specialized in selling cleaning products business to business. The purpose of this research is to obtain insight on the level of customer satisfaction, customer loyalty and the level of customer recommendations and how this can …

Voor u ligt het onderzoeksrapport voor verhuis- en opslagbedrijf UTS Verkroost Nijmegen BV (hierna te noemen: UTS Verkroost). Op basis van het eerder geschreven Plan van Aanpak heb ik dit onderzoeksrapport geschreven in opdracht van het facilitair verhuis- en opslagbedrijf UTS Verkroost. In dit rapport …

Defining professional excellence: overlapping learning outcomes in Dutch honours education. Presentation at Utrecht Honours Conference, Utrecht. 2-3 June 2016. Activity: Focus group discussion: What characterizes an excellent professional?Research results, relevance, next steps.Activity: Roundtable/discussionin …

The Hanze University Groningen offers more than 60 different honours programmes for students who want to do more than the regular programme offers them. In these programmes, students are guided to become an excellent professional. Competencies defining an excellent professional were assessed in a previous …

Honours education in health care studies: what defines an excellent allied health care professional? Presentation at Cohehre congres Derby, Engeland, 15 April 2016

The Utrecht SBE16 Conference. From the introduction: "The conference is part of the Sustainable Built conference series and is as such considered to be part of the pre-eminent international conference series on sustainable building and construction endorsed by iiSBE, UNEP-SBO and FIDIC. The Utrecht SBE16 conference …

Paper presentation at the European Council of High Ability, Vienna, Austria. 2-5 March 2016.

BACKGROUND: Limited research has examined what is actually done in the process of care by nursing staff in long-term institutional care. The applied instruments employed different terminologies, and psychometric properties were inadequately described. This study aimed to develop and test an observational …