Are group-based self-management programmes suitable for all patients with type 2 diabetes?
Group-based self-management programmes make it easier to cope with the disease. However, half of all patients decline to participate in such programmes.
Group-based self-management programmes make it easier to cope with the disease. However, half of all patients decline to participate in such programmes.
Nurses’ psychosocial challenges are transformed into something private and personal instead of being solved at an overarching level in the organisation.
The model helped to ensure that work placement supervisors were better prepared to welcome students, and this strengthened the quality of learning. However, this requires management support, as well as planning and professional resources.
Patients dream of a living space with a predictable daily structure and clear organisation, where they receive individually tailored care and treatment, and where healthcare personnel enter into health-promoting relationships with them.
In order to identify children who need a referral to a speech therapist, public health nurses must pay attention to repetitions, blocks and prolongations in the child’s speech.
Most of those who work part time choose to do so for reasons of lifestyle or family values. However, sociable working hours and professional challenges may provide the motivation required for some to increase their full-time equivalent percentage.
Whether the therapist at the district psychiatric centre was a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse seemed to have little bearing on the outcome.
Healthcare personnel who work with parents who are mentally ill or have substance abuse problems are uncertain about their role. The support that the children receive can therefore be haphazard.
Anaesthetic nurses found that the children were easier to wake preoperatively and that their awakenings were calmer and less painful.