Patients move quickly between different units during the surgical pathway. Older patients in particular are at risk of suffering related to care such as violations of dignity, neglect and poor pain management.
Healthcare personnel should treat obese people with openness and without prejudice. By doing so, they can help them develop a resistance to shame.
Women who had given birth by caesarean section often downplayed their own complaints, felt left to their own devices and received invaluable assistance from their partner.
When nurses and healthcare personnel are able to identify which patients are particularly at risk of post-stroke fatigue, patients can be given the appropriate follow-up at the right time.
Patients fail to turn up for their treatment in private institutions if they feel inadequately involved, suffer dwindling motivation or feel pressurised into accepting the treatment.
Nurses with Norwegian as their mother tongue use a larger, and more nuanced repertoire in handover reports than those with Norwegian as a second language. However, they document numerical information in almost the same way.
A calm atmosphere with single rooms, flexible visiting hours and trust in the healthcare personnel can help the family members to serve as a resource for heart surgery patients with a prolonged stay in intensive care.
The study’s informants were particularly apprehensive about critical emergencies and unsure how to use medical equipment such as bag valve masks.
Helath personnel can learn from the pain team when they have pharmacology-related questions and are drawing up treatment plans, and when they are establishing open and trusting relations with the patient.
In the last twenty years, PhD theses in nursing science at the University of Oslo (UiO) have changed in terms of methodology, authorship and theoretical approach. Has the research become less patient-centred and patient-oriented?
The out-of-hours doctor did not receive formal patient information in at least half of the doctor’s visits to nursing homes in Oslo. This may subject the patients to inappropriate treatment and unnecessary hospitalisation.
Measures such as the ‘getting-to-know-you’ day, the ‘float nurse’ function at an early stage, group meetings and internal training greatly benefitted supervisors and students at Oslo University Hospital.
Students who used this framework for communication conveyed more specific observations, gave fewer unfounded opinions, and experienced improvements in teamwork and patient safety.
Fatigue, dry mouth and loss of appetite are the most distressing symptoms, according to a screening with the ESAS tool.
Some municipalities gave considerably more prominence to finances and day-to-day operations than safe and secure patient experiences.
Both students in clinical nursing education and their preceptors think that the assessment form, which is based on the principles of the AssCE form, can be used as a model to assess the students.
Nurses, social educators and pharmacists have reached a consensus on 77 standards for best practice in medication management in the nursing and care service.
Makten og avmakten som ligger i rollene der legen er ekspert og pasienten hjelpetrengende, påvirker kommunikasjonen og samhandlingen under legevisitten.
The students gain an increased understanding of cultural differences by maintaining an open attitude and receiving explanations of cultural differences that they do not understand.
At the University of Tromsø, first year students in nursing homes are supervised by final year students in order to strengthen their occupational competence in nursing leadership.
Despite staff calling patients prior to the admission date, the proportion who presented for treatment did not increase. Nevertheless, it was a useful exercise for exchanging information and building relations.
Practice supervisors are of the opinion that the students need specially adapted arrangements for hospital work placements in order to complete their education.
Many medical records lacked information about nutritional risk, and few patients at nutritional risk were followed up.
Whether the therapist at the district psychiatric centre was a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse seemed to have little bearing on the outcome.
