Healthcare personnel’s assessment of their competence after a course in trauma nursing
Healthcare personnel find that they are better equipped to receive and treat trauma patients after taking the Course in Trauma Nursing.
Healthcare personnel find that they are better equipped to receive and treat trauma patients after taking the Course in Trauma Nursing.
Registered nurses in Norwegian sexual assault reception centres participate in or perform all tasks in the emergency treatment of victims of sexual assault, including forensic tasks.
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.
Following the Care Coordination Reform, more frail elderly patients have died after discharge from hospitals to nursing homes and more have been discharged to return home.
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.
In order to meet the challenges associated with undernutrition in elderly patients who receive home-based nursing care, it is necessary to screen for nutritional status.
It can be almost impossible to insert a needle in the case of some patients. Moreover, registered nurses have many work tasks to carry out at the same time in different places, and this can reduce concentration.
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.
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.
All the nurses in the study had received friend requests from patients. They had different, and sometimes conflicting, attitudes to contact with patients on Facebook.