| Name: |
I.P. (Irene) Jongerden, RN, PhD |
| Function: |
Researcher (post-doc) |
| Department: |
Intensive Care Medicine |
| Division: |
Division of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine |
| E-mail address: |
I.P.Jongerden@umcutrecht.nl |
| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 61140 |
| Fax number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 61160 |
| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht
The Netherlands |
| Correspondence: |
UMC Utrecht
P.O. Box 85500
Mail stop F06.149
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
About Irene Jongerden is a researcher with a background in nursing and nursing science. She was coordinator and principal investigator of a trial on endotracheal suctioning in intensive care patients, which was performed in 2 Dutch hospitals (UMC Utrecht and St Elisabeth Hospital Tilburg). In this trial effectiveness of open and closed endotracheal suction systems were compared, with a main focus on acquisition and cross-transmission with Gram-negative bacteriaea. Over 1,100 patients were included from January 2007 to February 2008, and the main results were published in 2011. In May 2011 she defended her PhD thesis, entitled “Airway management and respiratory tract colonization in intensive care patients”.
Momentarily she works as a researcher with a focus on respiratory tract colonization in intensive care patients and on family and patient satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit.
Interest and focus
Infection prevention in ICU
Respiratory tract colonization in intensive care patients
Family and patient satisfaction with care in intensive care units
Evidence based practice
Education (nursing science and ICU nurses)