Dr. Wolter Paans

Wolter Paans is a professor of Nursing Diagnostics. His interest is in the process of analyzing patients' health problems, and in the planning of effective nursing interventions to arrive at measurable nursing outcomes.

"As a researcher in nursing science affiliated with the Research Group Nursing Diagnostics, I serve and support nursing education and health care practice. My interest is in the process of analyzing patients' health problems and in the planning of effective nursing interventions to come to measurable nursing outcomes. In addition, my interest is in Family Care, e-health in nursing, as well as in self-management, communication, clinical reasoning, documentation and handover. Projects in our research group are: the development, validation and valorization of competence-based training in Family Conversations, the development, validation and valorization of critical reasoning tools (websites), Genogram-app, and the development of guidelines (i.e. documentation and handover)."