Nurses' required end-of-life care competence in health centres inpatient ward - a qualitative descriptive study.

abstract：AIM AND METHOD:The chronic nature of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and its frequent relapses result to a considerable utilization of healthcare resources. Current approaches for the assessment of quality of care are based on the perception of the healthcare provider, which may be different from that of the healthcar...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pallis AG,Kostagiolas PA,Mouzas IA,Niakas D

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical preception in practice plays a significant role in both registered and practical nurse studies. As such, the cooperation between the faculty and working life is important to narrow the theory-practice gap, with emphasis being placed on a student-oriented approach promoting self-direction and lifelong learning...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Hilli Y,Melender HL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The burden of caregiving can have various negative consequences. There is a need for health professionals to be able to measure the burden of caregiving among relatives of end-stage cancer patients in a valid way. The Burden Scale for Family Caregivers (BSFC) has 28 items and was developed as a clinical tool...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Brogaard T,Neergaard MA,Guldin MB,Sokolowski I,Vedsted P

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients' decisional control over care is the ability or power for patients to decide what their involvement will be in healthcare decisions. There is evidence of limited agreement between the perceptions of patients and the perceptions of nurses and/or caregivers with regard to the degree of patient involve...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Papastavrou E,Efstathiou G,Tsangari H,Karlou C,Patiraki E,Jarosova D,Balogh Z,Merkouris A,Suhonen R

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is a grounded theory study to identify concepts for describing how adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) respond to their parents' concern for them. Ten adolescent boys and seven girls were interviewed. In the analysis four main categories emerged: ambivalence, ability/inability, compliance/resistance...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Reichenberg K,Lindfred H,Saalman R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to describe the life situation among 'significant others' to patients with post-stroke depression, and to identify associations between the life situation of the significant others and patient characteristics. Seventy-one dyads consisting of patients with a diagnosed post-stroke depression an...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Franzén-Dahlin A,Billing E,Näsman P,Mårtensson B,Wredling R,Murray V

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy is an essential concept in nursing which seems to be a key concept in the daily life of three individuals with chronic illness. Much has been done within the natural sciences to investigate and explain the concept, but studies on the meaning of energy and how it is experienced are difficult to find. A review of...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Lerdal A

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Both internationally and nationally, the medical care help line (MCHL) is a growing operation within the healthcare field. In Sweden, approximately 5 million calls per year are processed. The service is managed by specially trained nurses. AIM:  To describe how patients' sex, age, education level and care l...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Ström M,Baigi A,Hildingh C,Mattsson B,Marklund B

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nurse-to-nurse collaboration between nurses working in hospital and primary health care in the older people care chain is essential to ensure the continuity of care. The nature of good collaboration in this context is understood usually from the perspective of collaborating nurses. However, there seems to be...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Lemetti T,Voutilainen P,Stolt M,Eloranta S,Suhonen R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nurses' working hours are known to be one reason for high wastage rates. The early start of work seems to be particularly difficult. The aim of the present study was to examine which nursing tasks were performed during the time from 6:00 to 7:00 a.m. The study was conducted in a general hospital in Germany where such ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Bauer I

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the emergency department (ED) Registered Nurses (RNs) often perform triage, i.e. the sorting and prioritizing of patients. The allocation of acuity ratings is commonly based on a triage scale. To date, three reliable 5-level triage scales exist, of which the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS) is one. In Sweden...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Göransson K,Ehrenberg A,Marklund B,Ehnfors M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent article, Paley criticized nursing research that claimed to be phenomenological and recommended that all reference to Husserl be dropped by nurses following certain qualitative procedures. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that Paley is wrong in his recommendation by showing that Paley (i) does ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Giorgi A

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study aimed at describing cases of elder abuse reported by witnesses, intervention offered and opinions of further intervention strategies. Home service personnel from various parts of Sweden reported 97 cases. The abused person was a women in 75% of the cases. Many of the abused persons were physically and psych...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Saveman BI,Norberg A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To describe medication safety, transformational leadership and their relationship as evaluated by Registered Nurses. BACKGROUND:Medication safety is one of the aspects of patient safety and an important part of nurses' daily practices. Nurse managers can ensure medication safety by adopting a transformational lead...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Lappalainen M,Härkänen M,Kvist T

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite recent improvements in Swedish stroke care some patients still experience a lack of support and follow-up after discharge from hospital. In order to provide good care according to the National Board of Health and Welfare, systematic evaluations of stroke care must be performed. Quality indicators in ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Tholin H,Forsberg A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The proportion of old people in need of care is growing rapidly in most western societies, and there is a rising demand for qualified eldercare workers in the years to come. Hence, solutions to high turnover in the eldercare sector are becoming increasingly important. AIM:To test whether bullying, violence ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Hogh A,Giver H,Hannerz H,Pedersen BH

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONAL:The interest in complexity of nursing care has grown in science and practice in recent years because of changed patient profiles and higher average levels of patient acuity in acute care hospitals. AIM:The aim of this study was to redefine the concept of patient-related 'complexity of nursing care' in acute c...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Huber E,Kleinknecht-Dolf M,Kugler C,Spirig R

更新日期：2020-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:In earlier research as well as in political discussion and documents, the topic of evidence has been highlighted as one of the most important concerns in nursing care. This study focuses on understanding what lies behind nurses' ways of acting regarding evidence-based nursing through an illumination of the...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Gustafsson LK,Mattsson K,Dubbelman K,Snöljung Å

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Women's emotions and grief after miscarriage are influenced not only by the context in which the miscarriage occurred but also by their past experience, the circumstances around the miscarriage and their future prospects. Their emotions therefore express a specific form of grief. Normally the time needed t...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Adolfsson A,Larsson PG

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to describe the factors promoting and hindering nurses' use of nonpharmacological methods in children's surgical pain relief, and demographic variables related to this. The data were collected by a Likert-type questionnaire, which was completed by nurses (n = 162) who were working in one ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pölkki T,Laukkala H,Vehviläinen-Julkunen K,Pietilä AM

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this research was to study the potential influence and significance of Jewish and Christian patients' religion on their coping with cancer. After intensive methodological experimentation, the Interpretive Biography-approach, an inductive unstructured research method was applied to collect and analyse the da...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Käppeli S

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To describe foot health in older people and the role of nurses in foot health care. There is value in developing preventive measures in foot health care in older people, in creating educational programmes for nurses of foot care and in developing foot health evaluation instrument for nurses. METHODS:The literatur...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Stolt M,Suhonen R,Voutilainen P,Leino-Kilpi H

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The care in the emergency department (ED) is often characterised by high standards of efficiency and rapid treatment and the encounter between patient and staff can be described as both short and fragmented. Research within this field has mostly been performed with quantitative measurements and patients ar...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Elmqvist C,Frank C

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was based on the assumption that the daily report between different caregivers are of great importance for the quality of the care delivered and that they guide the content of it. The staff of a nursing home ward were given training in integrity promoting care and special training in reporting. After a thre...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Kihlgren M,Lindsten IG,Norberg A,Karlsson I

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes help seeking and health care of mothers with a difficult infant who suffered long-term depressive symptoms and a high degree of parenting stress. A subsample of severely distressed mothers (n = 37) was recruited from a cross-sectional national survey and followed up 2 months later by a semi-stru...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Thome M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the informational needs of mothers with different levels of education in order to improve counselling about vaccination. METHODS:In the setting of a large vaccination trial, mothers' assessments and yield of written information in combination with telephone consultations were evaluated in a survey...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Pihl GT,Ammentorp J,Johannessen H,Kjaergaard J,Nissen TN,Birk NM,Stensballe LG,Thøstesen LM,Kofoed PE

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is based on a comparative, psychologically informed ethnographic study of maternal goals and infant care during the first year of life for 20 mothers and infants in each of three Western settings: Stockholm, Sweden, outside Rome, Italy, and suburban Boston, in the United States. Two research questions were ...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Welles-Nyström B,New R,Richman A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific aim of this study was to explore if the Sense of Coherence (SOC) Scale reflects and overlaps with standardized psychiatric assessments of depression and anxiety leading to the main hypothesis that the degree of depression decreases while the SOC scores remain stable. Fifteen patients with a diagnosis of m...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Langius-Eklöf A,Samuelsson M

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food and mealtimes should be adapted to the older person's individual needs and desires, a fact that is often ignored in favour of a functional mealtime organisation. This study was grounded in participatory action research (PAR), and the aim of the study was to illuminate a PAR process to assist care providers in con...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Ericson-Lidman E,Strandberg G

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate how dependence was experienced by 129 non-institutionalized 85-year-old persons, who previously had been categorized into seven different patterns of adjustment. The participants' subjective experiences of dependence were expressed in in-depth interviews and additionally...

journal_title：Scandinavian journal of caring sciences

authors： Carlsson M,Berg S,Wenestam CG

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00