Kim Sweers
Centre for Nursing Sciences KU Leuven, Belgium
Biography
Kim Sweers has completed her Master’s degree in Nursing Sciences from the Catholic University of Leuven (KU Leuven). She has won the price of Professor Evers for most innovating work of her class in 2012. She currently works in UPC ZORG KU Leuven as Research Assistant since 2005. In clinical practice she is a Bereavement Consultant and Member of end-of-life associations in Belgium. Her present research work is connected to her publication about end-of-life care: Testing a self-developed scale which measures mental suffering in dealing with severe mental illness.
Abstract
Abstract : End-of-life (care) perspectives and expectations of patients with schizophrenia