Healthcare personnel as a source of comfort in recurrent ovarian cancer
Women with recurrent ovarian cancer endure their disease by finding solace in the hope of recovery. How can nurses provide consolation?
Women with recurrent ovarian cancer endure their disease by finding solace in the hope of recovery. How can nurses provide consolation?
A successful kidney-pancreas transplantation improves and stabilises patients’ daily lives. It also brings with it new elements of uncertainty that are important to convey to the patient.
Today, nurses working in the offshore industry include staff who have specialised in intensive care or anaesthetic nursing as well as staff with no particular specialty. Are there differences between their own perceived competence levels?
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.
Some nurses say nothing about the problem of smell in order to protect the service user. However, the silence of the nurses reinforces shame and loneliness.
A systematic literature review shows that six competence areas play a key role in enabling health personnel to give patients and service users good outcomes from self-management programmes.
Following the introduction of the Coordination Reform, nurses employed by the municipal health service have had to deal with a growing number of complex, patient-focused tasks. The need for professional development is considerable, but there is no overall strategy in place.
Video communication technology used in the context of reablement / telerehabilitation can facilitate access to nursing staff in a municipality, and enable users to stay at home longer.
The patient’s experience of breathlessness often do not correspond with the seriousness of the condition.
Group-based self-management programmes make it easier to cope with the disease. However, half of all patients decline to participate in such programmes.