Hester Vermeulen

Hester Vermeulen
Radboud University Medical Centre (Radboudumc) · Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, IQ healthcare

RN, PhD

About

456
Publications
204,971
Reads
How we measure 'reads'
A 'read' is counted each time someone views a publication summary (such as the title, abstract, and list of authors), clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the full-text. Learn more
8,284
Citations
Introduction
My research focuses Excellence in Nursing by underpinning essential nursing procedures (fundamentals of care) to increase the quality, safety, effectiveness and person centered care and the professionalism of nurses. With special attention for nursing sensitive outcomes both on patient, professional and organizational level. I have gained national prominence by implementing the evidence-based practice and call for nursing leadership to improve quality of care and attractiveness of nursing
Additional affiliations
November 2010 - July 2016
University of Amsterdam
Position
  • Professor (Associate)

Publications

Publications (456)
Article
Full-text available
Aim To develop a reflection method for community nurses and certified nursing assistants to support the implementation of a professional reporting guideline for nurses and certified nursing assistants in daily care and to identify its key features. Design Design‐based research. Methods This study was conducted in the Netherlands from February 202...
Article
Full-text available
Background Addressing the growing challenge of nurse retention requires coordinated actions at national and global levels to improve recruitment, retention policies, and investments in the nursing work environment. The nursing work environment, defined as the "organizational characteristics of a work setting that facilitate or constrain professiona...
Article
Full-text available
Aims To explore how coaching can facilitate the development of an Evidence‐Based Quality Improvement (EBQI) learning culture within nursing teams in hospital and community care settings. This study also explores the specific contextual factors that influence effective outcomes. Design Action research. Method Nine teams, including 254 nurses were...
Article
Full-text available
Introduction The World Health Organization defines quality of care as providing effective, evidence‐based care, and avoiding harm. Low‐value care provides little or no benefit to the patient, causes harm, and wastes limited resources. In 2017, shortly after the start of the International Choosing Wisely campaign, the first Dutch nursing “Do‐not‐do”...
Article
Full-text available
Background/Objectives: The nursing work environment is a critical element in healthcare delivery and a strong predictor of both patient and nurse outcomes. Understanding the complexity and multifaceted nature of this environment is essential for improving nursing practices and optimizing healthcare systems. This study aimed to gain insights into th...
Article
Background The nursing work environment is crucial for nurses' well-being and patients’ quality of care. Despite effective interventions to improve the nursing work environment, understanding the most effective types and integration mechanisms for nurses remain challenging. As nursing practices evolve amid complex care demands and staff shortages,...
Article
Full-text available
Objectives Quality improvements (QIs) in dynamic and complex health care contexts require resilience and take variability into account in quality improvement. The Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) helps us understand resilience and gain insight into (un)desirable variability in the complex system of daily practice. We explored how using F...
Article
Full-text available
Background Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS), the set of actions to ensure appropriate antimicrobial use, is increasingly considered a multidisciplinary endeavour. However, it is unclear how Dutch hospital-based nurses envision their contribution to AMS. Objective To explore the views and visions of Dutch bedside nurses on their role regarding appro...
Article
Introduction The outbreak of COVID-19 showed the devastating effect of large disease outbreaks. Future pandemics and epidemics can have a significant impact on the healthcare system and, thus, the healthcare workers. Moreover, it is crucial to understand how hospital managers can manage to retain their nurses and physicians during future outbreaks....
Article
Full-text available
Background: Transformation of healthcare is necessary to ensure patients receive high-quality care. Working with the evidence-based practice (EBP) principles enables nurses to make this shift. Although working according to these principles is becoming more common, nurses base their actions too much on traditions and intuition. Therefore, to promot...
Article
Full-text available
Objectives Systematically measuring the work environment of healthcare employees is key to continuously improving the quality of care and addressing staff shortages. In this study, we systematically analyse the responses to the one open-ended question posed in the Dutch version of the Culture of Care Barometer (CoCB-NL) to examine (1) if the respon...
Article
Full-text available
Background Patient participation is fundamental in nursing care and has yielded benefits for patient outcomes. However, despite their compassionate care approach, nurses do not always incorporate patients' needs and wish into evidence‐based practice, quality improvement or learning activities. Therefore, a shift to continuous quality improvement ba...
Article
Full-text available
Aim To develop a reflection method for community nurses and certified nursing assistants to support the implementation of the Dutch Informal Care guideline in daily care. Design Design‐based research. Methods A design group and four test groups of community nurses and nursing assistants were formed to develop a reflection method that aligns with...
Article
Full-text available
Objectives A positive work environment (WE) is paramount for healthcare employees to provide good quality care. To stimulate a positive work environment, employees’ perceptions of the work environment need to be assessed. This study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the Culture of Care Barometer (CoCB-NL) survey i...
Article
Full-text available
Background Thoracic radiotherapy may damage the myocardium and arteries, increasing cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Women with a high local breast cancer (BC) recurrence risk may receive an additional radiation boost to the tumor bed. Objective We aimed to evaluate the CVD risk and specifically ischemic heart disease (IHD) in BC patients treate...
Article
Full-text available
Background Among older people undiagnosed and untreated vision impairment and blindness are common. The leading causes are uncorrected refractive errors and cataracts. Vision problems are associated with a lower quality of life, several health problems, and a higher chance of falling accidents and fractures. To eliminate avoidable vision impairment...
Article
Full-text available
Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), the set of actions to ensure antibiotics are used appropriately, is increasingly targeted at all those involved in the antimicrobial pathway, including nurses. Several healthcare organizations have issued position statements on how bedside nurses can be involved in AMS. However, it remains unclear how nur...
Article
Full-text available
Aims To explore potential areas of low‐value home‐based nursing care practices, their prevalence and related influencing factors of nurses and nursing assistants working in home‐based nursing care. Design A quantitative, cross‐sectional design. Methods An online survey with questions containing scaled frequencies on five‐point Likert scales and o...
Article
Full-text available
General practitioners (GPs) are the cornerstone of primary healthcare in the Netherlands. As a national strategy, physician associates/assistants (PAs) and NPs were introduced to address growing healthcare demand. In this study, four representative practices were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively—two solo practices with a PA or NP and two g...
Article
Full-text available
Background: The clinical decision-making of non-conveyance is perceived as complex and difficult by emergency medical services (EMS) professionals. Patients with a transient loss of consciousness (TLOC) based on syncope constitute a significant part of the non-conveyance population. Risk stratification is the basis of the clinical decision-making...
Article
Full-text available
Background Patients with a syncope constitute a challenge for risk stratification in (prehospital) emergency care. Professionals in EMS and ED need to differentiate the high-risk from the low-risk syncope patient, with limited time and resources. Clinical decision rules (CDRs) are designed to support professionals in risk stratification and clinica...
Article
Full-text available
Introduction In the perioperative period of hospitalization, barriers to food intake are common due to special nutritional needs, compromised nutritional status, and metabolic stress. Good nutritional care call for an interdisciplinary approach. And patients themselves may also play an essential role in managing nutritional care. Objective This st...
Article
Full-text available
Background Choosing Wisely is an international movement that stimulates conversations about unnecessary care. The campaign created five recommendations including a statement that less wound care is sometimes better. Aims The study aims to evaluate nurses' and physicians' adherence to the Choosing Wisely recommendations for acute wound care in the...
Article
Full-text available
Background Adequate staffing is crucial for high quality patient care and nurses’ wellbeing. Nurses’ professional assessment on adequacy of staffing is the gold standard in measuring staffing adequacy. However, available measurement instruments lack reliability and validity. Objectives To develop and psychometrically test an instrument to measure...
Article
Full-text available
Background: Nurse engagement, perceived need and usefulness affect healthcare technology use, acceptance and improvements in quality, safety and accessibility of healthcare. Nurses' opinions regarding continuous monitoring appear to be positive. However, facilitators and barriers were little studied. This study explored nurses' post-implementation...
Article
Objectives: To describe an insight into nursing nutritional care delivery in the hospital from the perspectives of observed nursing care and an exploration of multidisciplinary attitudes and experiences with patient participation in nutritional care. Background: The prevalence of malnutrition in hospitalised patients continues to be high. Nurses...
Article
Full-text available
Purpose The added value of measuring patient-reported outcomes (PROs) for delivering patient-centered care and assessment of healthcare quality is increasingly evident. However, healthcare system wide data collection initiatives are hampered by the proliferation of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) and conflicting data collection standards....
Article
Full-text available
The active participation of nurses in evidence-based practice (EBP) is challenging and topical, as shown by the worldwide calls for appropriate, accessible, affordable care and the de-implementation of unnecessary care. Nurses' perceived support from their managers and work environments may affect their self-efficacy and outcome expectancy in EBP,...
Article
Background The changing demands on healthcare require continuous development and education in the nursing profession. Homogeneity in nursing qualifications reduces educational inconsistencies between and within countries. However, despite various initiatives, modifying nurse education remains challenging because different countries have their own l...
Article
Full-text available
Purpose: Understanding residents' workplace learning could be optimized by not only considering attending physicians' role but also the role of nurses. While previous studies described nurses' role during discrete activities (e.g., feedback), a more profound understanding of how nurses contribute to residents' learning remains warranted. Therefore...
Article
Full-text available
Background: Nursing home care is undergoing significant changes. This requires innovative teams operating in an effective workplace culture characterized by person-centeredness and offering evidence-based care. A pivotal role for bachelor- and master-educated nurses (BNs/MNs) is foreseen to facilitate such cultures; however, there is currently no c...
Article
Background: In breast reconstruction surgeries, surgical wound dehiscence is a serious complication which generates a significant burden on patients and healthcare systems. There are indications that postoperative treatment with closed incision negative pressure therapy (ciNPT) has been associated with reduced wound dehiscence rates. This randomiz...
Article
Full-text available
Background: More than 50% of intensive care unit (ICU) survivors suffer from long-lasting physical, psychosocial, and cognitive health impairments, also called "post-intensive care syndrome" (PICS). Intensive care admission during the COVID-19 pandemic was especially uncertain and stressful, both for patients and for their family. An additional ri...
Article
Full-text available
Objectives To gain consensus on the items that determine adequacy of shift staffing. Design This was a three-round Delphi study to establish consensus on what defines adequacy of shift staffing in a general hospital ward. A literature review, focus group and five semistructured expert interviews were used to generate items for the Delphi study. S...
Article
Full-text available
This study evaluated the applicability and efficacy of patient education regarding fasting recommendations to shorten fasting times in patients undergoing esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD). A prospective nonrandomized controlled pilot study was performed. The intervention group (IG) was educated by nurses to eat until 6 hours and drink until 2 hours...
Article
Objectives To explore how individuals with spinal cord injury self-manage the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers and to provide insight into experiences with self-management support. Design Qualitative study using semi-structured interview and a deductive thematic analysis. Setting Community. Participants Twelve of the 14 participating...
Article
Full-text available
Objective The purpose of this study was to explore lived experiences of rehabilitation professionals working in hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic, including the ethical issues and moral distress that these professionals might have encountered. Methods An interpretative phenomenological study was performed. First-person experiences of rehabili...
Article
Full-text available
Background Police officers and members of a mobile crisis team (MCT) are the two actors who respond to nuisance in Dutch society related to ‘persons with confused behavior’ and serious violent incidents. Their collaboration creates tension and dissatisfaction about roles and responsibilities. Aim To explore the lived experiences of, and collaborat...
Article
Full-text available
Background Patients with severe mental illness with repeated interpersonal trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have a negative illness progression. Traumas are often not treated because of their vulnerability. Narrative exposure therapy (NET) is an effective trauma therapy. It is unknown whether NET is effective and tolerable in these...
Article
Full-text available
Objectives: To identify and structure potential informal antidepressant strategies that can be used in daily practice for nursing home residents alongside formal treatments. Methods: In a first Group Concept Mapping study, residents, relatives, and professional caregivers (N = 124) brainstormed on strategies residents could use to prevent or all...
Article
Background Up to now it is unclear which determinants influence nonadherence to negative pressure wound therapy. This study aimed to assess the predictive value of prognostic determinants to nonadherence to negative pressure wound therapy. Methods A multicenter prospective cohort study on patients with wounds treated with negative pressure wound t...
Article
Full-text available
Objective: Identifying the scope of pain interventions executed by nurses for adult patients in hospital and community care settings. This endeavour should help to formulate evidence-based recommendations for this nursing-sensitive outcome. Background: In health care settings, patients are prone to experience pain. Nurses play a vital role in pain...
Article
Full-text available
Background The awareness of cancer therapy–related adverse cardiac effects is fueled by recent literature on cardiotoxicity incidence and detection strategies. Although this influences the sense of urgency, in current practice, cardiotoxicity monitoring and treatment is not structurally performed. With this study, we aimed to evaluate current persp...
Preprint
BACKGROUND Self-management can increase self-efficacy and quality of life and improve disease outcomes in patients with chronic conditions. Effective self-management may also help to reduce the pressure on healthcare systems. However, patients need support in dealing with their disease and in developing skills to manage the symptoms, treatment, phy...
Article
Full-text available
Background: Self-management can increase self-efficacy and quality of life and improve disease outcomes. Effective self-management may also help reduce the pressure on health care systems. However, patients need support in dealing with their disease and in developing skills to manage the consequences and changes associated with their condition. We...
Article
Full-text available
Background The global utilization of the physician assistant/associate (PA) is growing. Their increasing presence is in response to the rising demands of demographic changes, new developments in healthcare, and physician shortages. While PAs are present on four continents, the evidence of whether their employment contributes to more efficient healt...
Poster
Full-text available
Background Although formal treatments like antidepressants and psychotherapy may effectively reduce depression in nursing home residents, side effects and poor treatment adherence are common. To improve depression care, it is important to also learn from informal strategies already used successfully in daily practice, alongside or in absence of for...
Article
Full-text available
Objective Inappropriate prescribing of drugs is associated with unnecessary harms for patients and healthcare costs. Interventions to reduce these prescriptions are widely studied, yet the effectiveness of different types of interventions remains unclear. Therefore, we provide an overview regarding the effectiveness of intervention types that aim t...
Article
Full-text available
Background Although improved breast cancer (BC) treatment has decreased mortality, these anti-cancer regimens may have serious cardiovascular side effects that affect patients’ long-term prognosis and quality of life (QoL). BC patients with cancer treatment-related cardiac dysfunction (CTRCD) can suffer from a variety of symptoms, such as dyspnoea...
Article
Rationale: Delirium is common in critically ill patients and is associated with deleterious outcomes. Nonpharmacological interventions are recommended in current delirium guidelines, but their effects have not been unequivocally established. Objectives: To determine the effects of a multicomponent nursing intervention program on delirium in the ICU...