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Tiny Jaarsma

Full Professor

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Biography

Tiny Jaarsma is employed part time as a professor at Nursing Science since 2018, placed in the Julius Center, University Medical Center Utrecht with a position as a professor in Chronic Care/ Cardiovascular Nursing Care. She is also full professor in Nursing at Linköping University in Sweden, were she lives with her family.

Tiny Jaarsma received her bachelor education in nursing HBO-V in Groningen, the Netherlands, received her master degree in Health Sciences from the University of Maastricht in 1992, as part of a Dr Dekker fellowship of the Netherlands Heart Foundation. She studied 6 months at the UCLA in 1993 and completed her doctoral degree in 1999 at the University of Maastricht.

Her working life, she spend mostly in research and nursing. After her graduation she worked as a nurse in the University Medical Center in Groningen in the departments of internal medicine and cardiology. After her master...

Research groups

Nursing Science in Cardiovascular Disease

Research aim

We aim to reduce the impact of cardiac disease on the lives of patients, their caregivers and on society. We focus on increasing the ability of patients to maintain their self-care, to monitor their symptoms and take appropriate action.

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Recent publications

Global Experience of Self-Care in Cardiovascular Prevention Barbara Riegel, Heleen Westland, Onome H. Osokpo, Tiny Jaarsma
2025, p.89-107
Liberal fluid intake versus fluid restriction in chronic heart failure Job J Herrmann, Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca, Lisette E H J M Baltussen, Fabienne Beckers-Wesche, Sebastiaan C A M Bekkers, Louise Bellersen, J W Martijn van Eck, H Carlijne Hassing, Tiny Jaarsma, Gerard C M Linssen, Ron Pisters, Sandra Sanders-van Wijk, Marjolein H I Verdijk, M Louis Handoko, Peter van...
Considering health literacy in communication about medications between nurses and patients with heart failure Anne Geert van Driel, Ekram Maghroudi, Annemarie van der Klis, John de Heide, Susanne van Hooft, Anne Loes van Staa, Tiny Jaarsma
Patient Education and Counseling, 2025, vol. 135
Self-care Tiny Jaarsma, Barbara Riegel, Anna Strömberg
European journal of cardiovascular nursing, 2025, vol. 24, p.160-164
Celebrating a quinquennium of the EJCN Methods Corner Quin E. Denfeld, Caleb Ferguson, Christopher S. Lee, Tiny Jaarsma, Philip Moons
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 2025, vol. 24, p.1-3
Patient's Perception of Primary Health Care Provision With Respect to Access, Continuity and Coordination—InCept Heidrun Sturm, Weber Julia, Fabiano Tonaco Borges, Andrew Dickinson, Beat Sottas, Carina Wennerholm, Christina Andreae, Maria Liljeroos, Tiny Jaarsma, Stefanie Joos, Antonia Bauer
International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2025, vol. 40, p.538-548

External positions

Steeringcommittee FRESH-UP study - leveren van onderzoeksexpertise - Universiteit Nijmegen