Healthcare worldwide has undergone a tremendous evolution in recent
decades. Due to the evolution of medicine and the explosion of various
ingenious and more expensive examination and treatment options. This
ensures that patients are treated more and more efficiently, and
admission times are drastically reduced. Not only medicine is creating
new challenges, but social developments are also setting the scene for a
renewed healthcare organisation. The healthcare sector and governments
face enormous challenges. The changing landscape is shifting the focus
from episodic acute care to chronic continuous care. Consider the
participation needs of patients, the documentation and accountability of
quality of care, the ageing of the population, evolution towards
supra-regional hospital networks in Belgium and the alignment with-and
substitution of-care to primary care. The nursing profession must evolve
along with it, but the amount of knowledge we expect from nurses both in
terms of knowledge of pathology but also broader knowledge of
informatics, technology makes it particularly complex. In response to
these challenges, AZ Groeninge Belgium has developed a new model of care
in recent years.