Rehabilitation ward holiday closure and the course of sepsis
It did not affect discharge destinations or survival.
60 hit for Prioritisation
Patients’ families in intensive care units in Norway before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
More families had daily access to doctors during the pandemic than before the pandemic. But the nurses were involved in fewer conversations.
Inadequate documentation of nutritional practice in the specialist health service
Many medical records lacked information about nutritional risk, and few patients at nutritional risk were followed up.
Language use and patterns in nursing records. A discourse analytical approach
A care discourse, aimed at the patient’s needs, was prominent in the evaluation and assessment notes. The treatment plans reflected a problem-focused discourse, where only problems were recorded.
The challenges associated with implementing new practice
Normalisation Process Theory can be used to assess the prerequisites for ensuring that a new intervention becomes established practice.
Encountering parents of a sick newborn child
When nurses encounter parents with a sick newborn child, it is vital that they see them as individuals and establish a relationship based on empathy.
Culturally adapted validated translation of the NIHSS
The translated NIHSS form and guide remain true to the English version and are harmonised with the non-validated Norwegian version.
The experiences of bereaved relatives on receiving the intensive care diaries of their loved ones
The bereaved felt that they maintained a bond with their deceased family member through diaries that had been kept for the patients during their stay in ICU. The diaries also helped impart structure on a chaotic time and made it easier for the bereaved to vent their feelings.
Prehospital healthcare personnel are apprehensive about paediatric airway management
The study’s informants were particularly apprehensive about critical emergencies and unsure how to use medical equipment such as bag valve masks.
Dying patients in nursing homes: nurses provide “more of everything” and are “left to deal with everything on their own”
Nurses report that the end-of-life nursing care provided in nursing homes calls on staff to provide “more of everything”, and that nurses feel they are “left to deal with everything on their own”. This situation must be taken seriously, organisationally and policywise.
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