Aims. The aim of this study is to gain insight into the level of emotional intelligence of mental health nurses in the Netherlands. Background. The focus in research on emotional intelligence to date has been on a variety of professionals. However, little is known about emotional intelligence in mental …

Transitions in health care and the increasing pace at which technological innovations emerge, have led to new professional approach at the crossroads of health care and technology. In order to adequately deal with these transition processes and challenges before future professionals access the labour …

Op het jaarlijkse NVLF-congres van 6 november 2009 is de website www.taalexpert.nl gelanceerd. Sindsdien heeft de website een stijgend aantal bezoekers. In 2010 werd op het NVLF-congres een presentatie gegevenmet als titel Taalexpert: een jaar later. Daarnaast is op die dag het nieuwe project ‘logopedische …

Purpose – The purposes of this paper are to 1) give an overview of the prevalence of HR practices that are used to retain vital older workers in health organizations, 2) to examine the evaluations of those HR practices, and 3) to determine the wishes for HR practices in three different target groups: …

Because dental health and oral pathology may affect forensic psychiatric patients' well being, it is important to be able to assess oral health related quality of life (OH-QoL) in these patients. Two studies were conducted among Dutch forensic psychiatric male patients to assess the psychometric properties …

There are currently about 6 million – mainly older – people with dementia in the European Union. With ageing, a number of sensory changes occur. Dementia syndrome exacerbates the effects of these sensory changes and alters perception of stimuli. People with dementia have an altered sensitivity for indoor …

The labour market for experts through experience is growing. They work at client organizations and with increasing frequency at mental health care facilities and training institutes as well. This requires training and curricula for experts through experience. The author describes as an exemplary case …

Accuracy of nursing diagnoses: knowledge, knowledge sources and reasoning skills

The labour market for experience experts is growing. They work at client organisations and with increasing frequency at mental health care facilities as well. At training institutes, experience experts are more and more often asked to come and lecture. This requires training and curricula for experience …

The main objective of this report is to analyse and inform about international labour mobility, particularly within Europe, from the perspective of the Dutch Health and Social Care Sector. The report starts by describing the introduction of a new care system in The Netherlands. The government does not …