Walking is something that most of us do every day. From the moment we set our first steps we perfect this skill until it eventually becomes an automatic walking pattern. However, due to injury, illness, or disease, someone might lose control over this automated task. When this happens, physical therapy …

Virtual Reality (VR) can bridge the gap between theoretical educative materials and complex real-life situations that ambulance nurses face in practice⁠. The ability to simulate scenarios from a compelling caregiver perspective offers a powerful learning method⁠. We aim to contribute to the training …

This graduation project was conducted for Thales Nederland B.V., Hengelo. The primary goal of this graduation assignment was to explore and research whether or not gaming devices could be used to increase usability while performing various combat operations within TACTICOS (a Combat Management System …

Objective and Purpose: A triage system that prioritizes care according to medical urgency has a favorable effect on safety and efficiency of emergency care. The Dutch obstetric telephone triage system is comparable to physical triage systems. It consists of five urgency levels: resuscitation and life …

Background: The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic influenced family-centred care dramatically due to restricting visiting policies. In this new situation, nurses were challenged to develop new approaches to involve family members in patient care. A better understanding of these changes and the experiences …

For this research project I had the opportunity to join home nurses on their rounds for participant observations. Nurses are confronted with older patient’s meaning in life (MiL), or the lack thereof, on a daily basis. However, knowledge about these situations, and education regarding this subject, is …

1. Dynamic conditions in nature have led to the evolution of behavioural traits that allow animals to use information on local circumstances and adjust their behaviour accordingly, for example through learning. Although learning can improve foraging efficiency, the learned information can become unreliable …

This study explores teachers’ awareness of intuition, and how that awareness affects their classroom practices both conceptually and pragmatically. Scholars have long supported the notion that intuition is a crucial form of knowing that supports teaching. Teachers rely heavily on their intuition to deal …

Background There are distinct differences in the implementation of physiotherapeutic care in nursing homes. Both nationally and internationally staffing levels of physiotherapy differ significantly between and within nursing homes. Since legislation or guidelines that specify the parameters of physiotherapy …

This study was explorative in nature and aimed at in-depth understanding of the personal resources students use to reach self-defined success. To gain an in-depth understanding of personal resources that benefit students’ performance in the demanding context of honors education, we used qualitative methods.Becoming …