Dr. Marie Louise Luttik is a senior researcher with the Research Group in Nursing Diagnostics and Family Care at Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (the Netherlands). The research group was recently awarded 50.000 Euros by the Centre of Expertise Healthy Ageing in the North of the Netherlands to start a collaboration between care-, research-, and educational institutions, called an Innovation Lab in Family Care. Recent changes in the Dutch health care system have called for a greater emphasis on family care.
The objective of this lab is to develop and promote family nursing in the Netherlands by implementing and testing a structured family nursing intervention based on the Family Health Conversations (FamHC) Intervention, developed by Drs. Eva Benzein and Britt-Inger Saveman in Sweden. The FamHC Intervention is designed to strengthen family functioning and prevent family burden. Eighteen practicing nurses were recently taught how to use the FamHC Intervention in their clinical practice and a researcher is examining nurses’ and families’ experience of this family nursing intervention.
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