![]() Other interests are non-pharmacological interventions, clinimetrics and essential nursing care. ![]() She has specialized in pain and sedation assessment in non-verbal and preverbal individuals. In 2013 she was also appointed as Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and collaborated in many studies in the burn, trauma and pediatric intensive care units. She was appointed professor in Nursing Science in 2017 with the department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, after having supervised nursing and medical research in the departments of Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care in the Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital since 2001. She defended her PhD thesis in 2001 on postoperative pain assessment in neonates and infants. Monique van Dijk is a former nurse and psychologist with a master’s degree in Methodology and Statistics. Our new hospital was like a beautiful newborn with excellent genes (a matter of Nature) but was nurtured under the influence of the many occupants. With humans you never know entirely what to expect and how they respond to a new environment. How to respond to these downsides is still being considered. Patients themselves may feel isolated and at the same time tend to stay in the room – with inactivity as an undesirable consequence. For example, nurses feel they cannot adequately monitor their patients, who also lack social control by fellow patients. The 100% single-occupancy rooms in the general wards in the new hospital have their benefits but also some –partly unexpected– downsides. The findings will be presented during the presentation and will leave us with some interesting reflections. Topics included patients’ and nurses’ perceptions of the ward environments, the patients’ sleep quality, and patient-safety related topics such as falls, resuscitations and monitoring. In our executive board-commissioned WELCOME study we evaluated how the new setting compared against the old one with regard to several topics. These features should prove beneficial for both patients and hospital workers. This newly built hospital incorporates many features of a healing environment. In 2018 we took into use a brand new hospital next to our outdated, old one.
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