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- Ek, Kristina, et al.
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Death and caring for dying patients : exploring first-year students´descriptive experiences
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Palliative Nursing. - : Mark Allen Group. - 1357-6321 .- 2052-286X. ; 20:10, s. 509-515
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: To describe first-year nursing students' experiences of witnessing death and providing end-of-life care.Methods: This study is part of a larger longitudinal project. Interviews (n=17) were conducted with nursing students at the end of their first year of education. To analyse the interviews (lived-experience descriptions), a thematic analysis, ‘a search for meaning’ (Van Manen, 1997) was applied.Results: The results are presented within the framework of four separate themes: (1) The thought of death is more frightening than the actual experience, (2) Daring to approach the dying patient and offering something of oneself, (3) The experience of not sufficing in the face of death and (4) Being confronted with one's own feelings.Conclusion: Nursing students require continuous support and opportunity to reflect and discuss their experiences about caring for dying patients and confronting death throughout the entirety of their education. In addition, teachers and clinical supervisors need to give support using reflective practice to help students to develop confidence in their capacity for caring for dying patients.
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- Lundh Hagelin, Carina, et al.
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Factors influencing attitude toward care of dying patients in first-year nursing students.
- 2016
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Ingår i: International journal of palliative nursing. - : Mark Allen Group. - 1357-6321 .- 2052-286X. ; 22:1, s. 28-36
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- To describe Swedish first-year undergraduate nursing students' attitudes toward care of dying patients. Possible influences such as age, earlier care experiences, care education, experiences of meeting dying patients and place of birth were investigated.
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- Prahl, Charlotte
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Den frånvarande dialogen : Om en utbildningssatsning inom demensvård
- 2010
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Licentiatavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Educational investments may serve several purposes. They can be carried out in order to increase the students’ knowledge within a specific discipline, but also to increase the level of knowledge within an organization. ’Silviahemmet’ in Stockholm, which was inaugurated in the year of 1996, had as one of its objectives to become a school for education of assistant nurses working in the area of dementia care. The educational program had the aim to educate assistant nurses to become supervisors in dementia care, the assistant nurses should acquire an edge competence in the close care of patients with dementia. This educational investment has been investigated in order to study the significance an educational investment may have for a health care organization in which some of the health care personnel has participated in an education and moreover, to study how this knowledge is communicated within the organization.Thus, the overall purpose of my study is to describe and analyse the significance an educational investment is given, by the participating assistant nurses as well as by other health care personnel. The study was carried out during the year 2005 and concerned assistant nurses educated in the years between 1996 and 2001. Four different data gathering techniques were used; questionnaires, interviews, observations at two workplaces and conversations with health care personnel. The questionnaire concerned all 34 assistant nurses who had participated in specialist training in dementia care during this period. Seven persons were interviewed.Summing up my results, the knowledge that the assistant nurses have achieved from the education is theoretical and social knowledge of dementia. This constituted a platform to stand on for the assistant nurses in their work when meeting the patientAn important result of the study, concerning the importance of the assistant nurses specialist training for other categories of health care personnel, is the lack of verbal communication between personnel categories that seems to be at hand. Furthermore, dialogues or shared reflections among the personnel could not be noticed. Often it was solely one-way communication that existed on the wards. A knowledge creating dialogue was missing. Questions were asked, but only regarding about "what" and "when" a work task should be performed, not "why" something should be carried out.An obstacle regarding the communication of new knowledge appears to be the gap existing between an educational investment and the everyday reality of the health care organization. The result of the study shows the importance of adopting the theoretical knowledge to the reality that the health care personnel is facing. Other obstacles seem to be status and hierarchies.The study showed that the assistant nurses working hours did not allow for educating health care personnel in dementia. There ought to be possibilities within the organization to make space for the use and communication of new knowledge through the supervising of health care personnel caring for elderly with dementia. This in turn may lead to better health care for elderly. This supervision could take the form of a dialogue and shared reflections concerning the patients and their need of health care.
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- Prahl, Charlotte, et al.
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Understanding the role of an educational model in developing knowledge of caring for older persons with dementia
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nurse Education in Practice. - : Elsevier BV. - 1471-5953 .- 1873-5223. ; 17:2, s. 97-101
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Statistics show that the number of older people in need of care is increasing worldwide, especially those with dementia. This implies demands on knowledge and competence among health care staff to care for them. In Sweden, Silviahemmet offers dementia care units the opportunity to become certified according to a special certification educational model. Silviahemmet provides educational programs for staff in dementia care and day care for person with dementia. All staff undergoes a systematic training course in dementia care. The aim of the study was to gain an understanding of how an educational model developed the perceived knowledge of staff caring for older persons with dementia in a nursing home.METHOD: A phenomenographical approach was used and qualitative interviews were carried out with 13 staff members in a nursing home.FINDINGS: The main results show that staff perceives the importance of knowledge, working together and creating a sense of fellowship. The care of persons with dementia requires a special approach and adherence. Participating in the educational program made the staff realize and acknowledge their tacit knowledge and the importance of reflection-in-action together in the team.CONCLUSION: The results indicate the need for a common theoretical knowledge base and value system to achieve coherence in daily work.
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- Österlind, Jane, et al.
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Nursing students' perceptions of caring for dying people, after one year in nursing school
- 2016
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Ingår i: Nurse Education Today. - : Elsevier BV. - 0260-6917 .- 1532-2793. ; 41, s. 12-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: To describe Swedish nursing students' perceptions of caring for dying people after the first year of a three year in a nursing programme at three university nursing schools in Sweden. Methods: Interviews (n = 17) were undertaken with nursing students at the end of their first year. A phenomenographic approach was used to design and structure the analysis of the nursing students' perceptions. Results: The analysis resulted in five categories: 1) from abstract to reality, 2) from scary to natural, 3) increased knowledge can give bad conscience, 4) time limits versus fear of end-of-life conversations, and 5) meeting with relatives. Conclusion: Nursing students need to be prepared both theoretically and within practice to encounter death and dying and to care for dying persons. By combining their theoretical knowledge of dying and death with their own encounters of death and dying people in practice, the students can be supported to develop an understanding of dying and death as a natural part of life rather than something frightening. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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