Early mobilisation after abdominal surgery is necessary to avoid complications and increase recovery. However, due to a variety of factors, failure of early mobilisation is seen in clinical practice. The aim of this study is to investigate the perspectives of nurses and patients of the Haaglanden Medical Center (HMC) how to increase mobilisation frequency after colorectal surgery in the oncological surgery ward. This explorative study employed qualitative data collection and analysis by means of semi-structured interviews with patients and nurses. Patients were included when they had a colorectal resection, were older than 18 years and spoke Dutch. The interviews were audiotaped and verbatum transcribed. A thematic content analysis was performed. It was concluded that mobilisation can be increased when it is incorporated in daily care activities and family support during visiting hours. Appropriate information about mobilisation and physical activity is needed for nurses, patients and family and the hospital environment should stimulate mobilisation.
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This investigation explores relations between 1) a theory of human cognition, called Embodied Cognition, 2) the design of interactive systems and 3) the practice of ‘creative group meetings’ (of which the so-called ‘brainstorm’ is perhaps the best-known example). The investigation is one of Research-through-Design (Overbeeke et al., 2006). This means that, together with students and external stakeholders, I designed two interactive prototypes. Both systems contain a ‘mix’ of both physical and digital forms. Both are designed to be tools in creative meeting sessions, or brainstorms. The tools are meant to form a natural, element in the physical meeting space. The function of these devices is to support the formation of shared insight: that is, the tools should support the process by which participants together, during the activity, get a better grip on the design challenge that they are faced with. Over a series of iterations I reflected on the design process and outcome, and investigated how users interacted with the prototypes.
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