BACKGROUND: The time that nurses spent on documentation can be substantial and burdensome. To date it was unknown if documentation activities are related to the workload that nurses perceive. A distinction between clinical documentation and organizational documentation seems relevant. This study aims to gain insight into community nurses' views on a potential relationship between their clinical and organizational documentation activities and their perceived nursing workload.METHODS: A convergent mixed-methods design was used. A quantitative survey was completed by 195 Dutch community nurses and a further 28 community nurses participated in qualitative focus groups. For the survey an online questionnaire was used. Descriptive statistics, Wilcoxon signed-ranked tests, Spearman's rank correlations and Wilcoxon rank-sum tests were used to analyse the survey data. Next, four qualitative focus groups were conducted in an iterative process of data collection - data analysis - more data collection, until data saturation was reached. In the qualitative analysis, the six steps of thematic analysis were followed.RESULTS: The majority of the community nurses perceived a high workload due to documentation activities. Although survey data showed that nurses estimated that they spent twice as much time on clinical documentation as on organizational documentation, the workload they perceived from these two types of documentation was comparable. Focus-group participants found organizational documentation particularly redundant. Furthermore, the survey indicated that a perceived high workload was not related to actual time spent on clinical documentation, while actual time spent on organizational documentation was related to the perceived workload. In addition, the survey showed no associations between community nurses' perceived workload and the user-friendliness of electronic health records. Yet focus-group participants did point towards the impact of limited user-friendliness on their perceived workload. Lastly, there was no association between the perceived workload and whether the nursing process was central in the electronic health records.CONCLUSIONS: Community nurses often perceive a high workload due to clinical and organizational documentation activities. Decreasing the time nurses have to spend specifically on organizational documentation and improving the user-friendliness and intercommunicability of electronic health records appear to be important ways of reducing the workload that community nurses perceive.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the characteristics of talent in relation to international business to facilitate selection and development of talent in human resources (HR) and human resource development (HRD).Design/methodology/approach – A mixed method design was used: focus groups with business professionals to identify the characteristics of highly talented international business professionals (HTIBP), resulting in a concept profile; Delphi study for validation; systematic comparison of the opencoding results to existing literature to identify characteristics of talent.Findings – A specific and concise profile of HTIBP has been developed. This profile has five domains: achieving results; communicating; innovating; self-reflecting; seeing patterns and interrelationships in a global context. From literature cross-referencing, we have identified innovating, being creative andhaving a drive to achieve results are most distinguishing for HTIBP.Practical implications – The paper facilitates an ongoing discussion about what constitutes talent, and offers new perspectives for companies to consider when selecting and developing talent.Originality/value – The conceptual contribution of the paper offers a fresh and practical empirical perspective on what talent entails.
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Nu nieuwe technologieën als virtual en mixed reality steeds toegankelijker worden voor erfgoedinstellingen, rijst de vraag hoe ervaringen met deze technologieën zo ontworpen kunnen worden dat bezoekers de vaak onzichtbare verhalen en context en van stedelijk (im)materieel erfgoed kunnen ervaren. De Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Reinwardt Academie en de Oude Kerk hebben daarom een kleinschalig onderzoek opgezet naar het prototype Soundverse. Soundverse is een virtuele en multi sensorische interpretatie van de Oude kerkstor en die gemaakt is door studenten van de Hogeschool van Amsterdam in samenwerking met de Oude Kerk. In het onderzoek stond de vraag centraal in hoeverre Soundverse (potentiële) bezoekers de mogelijkheid biedt om een verbinding aan te gaan met de stedelijke erfgoedlocatie de Oude Kerk. Daarbij is gebruik gemaakt van de emotienetwerken-methodiek die is ontwikkeld door de Reinwardt Academie en Imagine IC. Uit de gesprekken blijkt dat het levendige en speelse karakter van Soundverse wordt gewaardeerd, maar ook dat een gevoel van vervreemding optreedt doordat de relatie met de Oude Kerk onduidelijk blijft. Verder komt naar voren dat de toegepaste adaptatie op het emotienetwerken-model kansen biedtvoor studenten bij het uitvoeren van hun onderzoek.
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