The questionnaire was completed by 36 third year nursing students. Results indicate that main reasons for insufficient dental hygiene performed by nurses include insufficient knowledge of protocols, lack of skills and time, opposition of the patient and low priority. In addition, respondents indicated …

Objective Medical Crew Resource Management (CRM) training courses are designed to increase patient safety by reducing the effects of human errors. These training courses are most popular in surgery and a wide range of medical CRM training courses for surgical teams is now available. However, the effects …

Abstract Background: Good dental hygiene is important to prevent or reduce frailty in the elderly. Research shows that 66% of elderly patients admitted to a nursing home have bad dental hygiene. During their stay, dental hygiene remains moderate to bad. To start addressing this issue, a group of students …

Persuasive design in the context of home rehabilitation of the elder-ly has been applied. Developing various prototypes based on persuasive fea-tures and behavioral changes helps to tune to more personalized solutions and serves as a valuable tool for implementing blended care in the practice.

Deze netwerkkaart geeft een overzicht van de practoraten, lectoraten, opleidingen, labs en samenwerkingsverbanden in Nederland die zich bezighouden met zorg- en sociale technologie.

In juni 2019 organiseerde de opleiding ergotherapie van Hogeschool Rotterdam (HR) in samenwerking met het bedrijf Scouters het ‘Testival’. Tijdens het eendaagse Testival konden mensen met een blijvende of tijdelijke bewegingsbeperking innovatieve, zorgtechnologische hulpmiddelen testen en beoordelen. …

Verpleegkundigen ervaren in hun werk vaak praktische problemen -zoals zware, inefficiënte of oncomfortabele handelingen- en lossen deze praktijkproblemen meestal creatief maar provisorisch op. Bij Create4Care in het Erasmus MC ‘co-creëren’ verpleegkundigen samen met studenten van Hogeschool Rotterdam …

Introduction: Sustained high compliance with hand hygiene prior to patient contact in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) could reduce the spread of pathogens and incidence of bloodstream infections of preterm infants. These infections are associated with high mortality, morbidity and additional costs. …

Introduction For adequate pain treatment in patients with cancer, it is important to monitor and evaluate pain regularly. Although the Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) is implemented in hospitals in the Netherlands, pain is still not systematically registered during outpatient consultations. The aim of this …

Verpleegkundigen komen in hun werk vaak praktische problemen tegen die ze zelf provisorisch oplossen. Veel praktijkproblemen kunnen definitief worden opgelost door slimme technische innovaties. In het Erasmus MC komen in co-creatie met studenten van Hogeschool Rotterdam oplossingen tot stand, die kwalitatief …