Diakonessenhuis opens Care Innovation Centre Acute Care in collaboration with HU
The Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht will start a care innovation centre (Zorg Innovatie Centrum, ZIC) at the Emergency Department on 1 February. Here, professionals in training, healthcare professionals, students and teachers will work together on healthcare provision, training, learning, innovation and research. The aim is to improve the quality of care, increase job satisfaction and keep the profession future-proof. The ZIC is the result of cooperation between the hospital and HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht.
In a 'ZIC', the entire healthcare department functions as a learning-working environment. Diakonessenhuis's ZIC is located in the Emergency Department. Learning and innovation takes place within the various Acute Care departments, namely in the Emergency Department, Intensive Care, acute cardiac care and anaesthesia.
Optimal learning environment
In February, eight third- and fourth-year students from the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht will start at the ZIC. They will do a 20-week internship in the various Acute Care departments. In addition, a lecturer from the university is present one day a week to guide the students in their internship and research. The lecturer works together with the work supervisors to create an optimal learning climate for students and other professionals in training. Together with the work supervisors and healthcare professionals, the lecturer ensures that issues from practice are translated into research and research results are translated into practice. That is why an Acute Care lecturer from HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht is also involved in the ZIC.
John Taks, chairman of the Diakonessenhuis Executive Board: "A wonderful development! With the ZIC, we want to give a strong impetus to training enough new colleagues in acute care. Setting up a ZIC in the emergency department fits well with our hospital's new strategic vision in which we pay a lot of attention to training, development and research. Moreover, our hospital wants to provide high quality care, based on both science and practice."
Strengthen regional job market
Eva Povel, director of the Institute of Nursing Studies at HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht, is also proud that the ZIC has been realised: "This allows us to connect education, research and practice. With up-to-date, relevant knowledge and skills, we train students and learning professionals who can immediately put what they have learned into practice. In this way, we strengthen the regional job market and retain professionals for healthcare. Moreover, in this way we give substance to the 'HU' expertise Together Healthy."
HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht has the ambition to realise several Acute Care ZICs in the region and thus establish a regional network. Besides organising and completing education, one of the first steps is to set up a knowledge agenda for the ZIC. In this way, issues and innovation needs from acute care practice can be prioritised. The knowledge agenda will therefore be leading in thesis research and research projects.
Source: HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
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