Care in Connection

  • Our research covers these three themes: 
    • Sustainable careers in healthcare
    • The healthcare professional as a collaborator
    • Care tailored to the healthcare user
  • We develop concrete answers to questions about this in healthcare institutions.
  • We develop practice-based tools that can be used in the workplace, such as methodologies, train-the-trainer kits, communication tools, e-books, as well as continued learning programmes and courses. 

Sustainable careers in healthcare

Together with professionals and our programmes, we are building tomorrow's healthcare profession, ensuring it is a challenging, workable, future-proof, and fulfilling job. In a sustainable career, healthcare professionals feel valued in their job. They have responsibility and autonomy in the performance of their job and sufficient (external) support to do their job properly.   

We focus on individual competences of healthcare professionals and external factors.

The healthcare professional as a collaborator

We provide support to healthcare professionals as collaborators who see added value in sharing their own expertise with others. We focus on improved interdisciplinary and professional collaboration, both within teams and between teams. We focus on dealing with diversity within teams in all its forms and decompartmentalising care and well-being. 

Care tailored to the healthcare user

We strengthen healthcare professionals in their connection with the healthcare user by providing tailor-made care, taking a preventive and targeted approach, and paying attention to accessibility of care for vulnerable healthcare users. Tailor-made care, or person-centred care, focuses on the individual’s and preferences as much as possible and addresses various needs while preserving human dignity. We want to increase patients' digital health literacy and self-management, and we are committed to shared decision-making in care.  

Joni Gilissen
Head of research centre
joni.gilissen@kdg.be
+32 3 613 19 29

 

Staff

Want to know more, collaborate or have a press enquiry?

You can collaborate with our research centre Care in Connection on topics such as:

  • Knowledge and expertise in various fields, from birth to care for the elderly.
  • Innovative methods to improve healthcare practices for patients and providers.

Contact us without obligation