Health care personnel’s experiences with suicide risk in older adults living at home
They should be on the lookout for risk factors such as functional impairment, loneliness, changing roles and the feeling of being a burden.
They should be on the lookout for risk factors such as functional impairment, loneliness, changing roles and the feeling of being a burden.
Intensivsykepleieren har et stort ansvar for å ivareta intensivpasientens søvnkvalitet. Mange av de foreslåtte endringene er enkle, og overførbare til praksis.
Tvang kan forekomme når barn motsetter seg behandling. Dette kan oppleves som svært traumatisk. Innsatsen bør heller settes inn på å forebygge tvang.
Healthcare personnel who interact with patients and their families can learn from the families’ experiences when a loved one is affected by dementia.
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.
Nurses can experience moral stress and feel a sense of shame when they are torn between a patient’s needs and the requirements of the treatment system. Ethical reflection in supervision can help.
While the illness is potentially life-threatening, it is invisible and not well known. Consequently, patients may be mistrusted and ignored, and they may feel inferior, vulnerable and insecure.
Close relatives help patients to live at home longer and are an important resource for the welfare state. But they can also contribute to an unfair allocation of nursing home beds by advocating for their own family members.
Studien viser varierende praksis blant ulike medlemmer av operasjonsteamet når det gjelder smitteforebyggende tiltak peroperativt.
Hvordan tilrettelegges det for autonomi i sykehjem for pasienter med demens? Hva fremmer, eventuelt hemmer slike muligheter i dagliglivet?