Dr. Ellen Hagedoorn is a senior lecturer and post-doc researcher at the School of Nursing and Research Group Family Care of the Hanze University of Applied Science in Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research activities focus on promoting self-care of older home-dwelling persons and their family caregivers. In 2019 she earned a PhD and the focus of her thesis was “Collaborative partnerships between family caregivers and nurses in the care of older hospitalized persons”. As part of her thesis, she translated and validated the instrument, Families’ Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses’ Attitudes (FINC-NA), in a population of Dutch nurses using the Generalized Partial Credit Model, and psychometrically evaluated a revised version of the Family Collaboration Scale. Currently, she is also involved in research on how nurses can promote self-management of older patients in the hospital.
As a senior lecturer, she is working on improving interprofessional collaboration between nurses and other health care professionals by making a joint care plan in consultation with the patient and their primary family caregivers. She utilizes the method of Participatory Action Research in order to jointly draw up appropriate interventions.
Her post-doc research is focused on improving collaboration between nurses and other health care professionals and family caregivers of older persons with dementia. Family nursing conversations are being used to jointly draw up a care plan.
Dr. Ellen Hagedoon is currently a member of the IFNA subcommittee on International Research Collaboration. For more information contact IFNA member, Ellen Hagedoorn.
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-hagedoorn
