RN2Blend

The Registered Nurses to Blend (RN2Blend) research programme examines differentiated employment among nurses. New tasks are assigned based on what nurses are good at and the skills they want to develop.

In order to raise the quality of care to an even higher level and to make care future-proof, differentiated employment is necessary. Treatments are becoming more complex, technological possibilities have increased enormously, and more healthcare providers are involved. Nurses play a key role in this: their profession is constantly changing along. 
 
RN2Blend shows the changes that are taking place in practice and how the nursing profession is developing at different levels of training and experience, and in terms of various competencies. The programme delivers results for the entire healthcare sector. It is therefore important for everyone involved in nursing. 

It is interesting for hospitals to see what differentiated deployment of nurses can bring them, for example in terms of satisfaction, health gains or staff turnover. In addition, the research clarifies how differentiated deployment of nurses can best be achieved and what is needed to do so.

Differentiated employment Tool 

The Differentiated Employment Tool is a quality improvement instrument for measuring the quality and safety of patient care and job satisfaction among nurses before and after the introduction of job differentiation. This allows each hospital to gain insight into the effects – and thus the potential added value – of the differentiated deployment of nurses. This is done, among other things, on the basis of internationally validated questionnaires. Research agency Newcom is conducting the research. 

About RN2Blend 

RN2Blend is being carried out on behalf of the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport and is a partnership between UMCNL and the NVZ, with researchers from Radboudumc, UMC Utrecht, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Utrecht University of Applied Sciences and Spaarne Gasthuis.