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...