Project description
A rise in patients with chronic diseases demands interprofessional, patient-centered care with nurses’ facilitation of patients’ self-management is a key component.
Background
The NURSE-CC (Nursing Research into Self-management and Empowerment in Chronic Care) research programme, which started a couple years ago, made clear that nurses and student nurses find it difficult to support patients’ self-management and often lack the necessary competencies. The ZM-doc (Self-Management Documentation) research programme explores how current self-management support tools can be further developed and implemented to support an open communication with patients in a structured manner. In addition to adaptation of the tool to individual patients’ needs, attention will be paid to systematic and transparent nursing documentation of self-management support.
Target group
The ZM-Doc research project includes chronic patients in hospital settings and patients and clients in home care, nursing homes and rehabilitation facilities.
Objectives
- The testing, adaptation, and small-scale implementation of self-management support tools for guided and open patient-nurse communication about patients’ needs, and collaborative goal setting in various care settings with chronic patients of diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds.
- Measuring the effects of using self-management support tools on (student) nurses’ self-management support competencies.
- Measuring the effects of using self-management support tools on systematic and transparent nursing self-management support documentation.
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The ultimate goal is to equip (student) nurses with adequate competencies to provide tailored self-management support, act as change agents, and practice evidence-based care.
Connection to education
The results will be implemented into the nursing curriculum of Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences and shared with collaborative partners in this project.