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Marieke Schuurmans

Full Professor

Biography

Marieke J. Schuurmans, PhD, RN is  a nurse and researcher, appointed professor and chair in Nursing Science at the University Medical Center Utrecht and professor of Care for Chronically Ill at the University of Applied Sciences in Utrecht, the Netherlands.  She worked over ten years as a clinical nurse specialist in geriatric medicine and is an expert on complex nursing care of older people. In her  PhDstudy she developed the Delirium Observation Screening (DOS) Scale which is nowadays part of regular nursing care in Dutch hospitals and which is translated in numerous languages and used in hospitals across the globe. Her current research focuses on prevention of care related complications in hospitalised older multimorbid patients and daily functioning of older people with multimorbidity in primary care. Her research is practice oriented and  in close collaboration with patients and professionals. She is interested in the changing paradigm regarding health and...

Recent publications

Integrated measure for training transfer in nursing practice Lysette Hakvoort, Jeroen Dikken, Lê Thuy Dinh Xuan, Marieke van der Schaaf, Marieke Schuurmans
Nurse Education Today, 2025, vol. 144
Advancing District Nursing Care Through a Learning Healthcare System Jessica Veldhuizen, Marieke Schuurmans, Misja Mikkers, Nienke Bleijenberg
Healthcare (Switzerland), 2024, vol. 12
Exploring the barriers, facilitators and needs to use patient outcomes in district nursing care Jessica Desirée Veldhuizen, Frans Van Wijngaarden, Misja Chiljon Mikkers, Marieke Joanne Schuurmans, Nienke Bleijenberg
Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2024, vol. 33, p.4781-4794
Healthcare professionals as change agents Marcel Krijgsheld, Eduard (J E.T.). Schmidt, Edwin Levels, Marieke (M J.). Schuurmans
Health Policy, 2024, vol. 147
Preceptors' considerations when entrusting professional activities to postgraduate nursing students E. F.Wilma Kleijer, Marieke J. Schuurmans, Olle ten Cate, Inge A. Pool
Nurse Education Today, 2023, vol. 125
Development of a microlearning intervention regarding nursing nutritional care for older adults Debbie ten Cate, Jeroen Dikken, Roelof G.A. Ettema, Lisette Schoonhoven, Marieke J. Schuurmans
Nurse Education Today, 2023, vol. 120