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- Nilsson, Carina, et al.
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Demanding yet supportive and developing: Nurse preceptors’ experiences of peer learning in nursing education in municipal elderly care homes
- 2024
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Ingår i: Nordic journal of nursing research. - : SAGE Publications Ltd. - 2057-1585 .- 2057-1593. ; 44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Nursing students commonly engage in clinical education in municipal elderly healthcare. Therefore, it is important to use a pedagogical model that provides the best conditions for nursing students to develop clinical competence. The aim of this study was to describe and interpret nurse preceptors’ experiences of a newly implemented pedagogical model, peer learning, in municipal elderly care home settings. Nine registered nurses from elderly care homes with precepting experience participated. Data were collected through individual interviews, and a thematic content analysis was performed. The study followed the Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ) checklist. The findings revealed four sub-themes: ‘requiring careful preparation’; ‘contributing control and trust in the learning process’; ‘changing perspectives brings new opportunities and challenges’; and ‘enabling students to believe in themselves’, all interpreted into the main theme of ‘demanding yet supportive and developing’. In conclusion, municipal elderly care homes seemed to be a learning environment well suited for using the peer learning pedagogical model.
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- Nilsson, Carina, et al.
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Pre-school teachers’ professional identity and multilingual children : An interactionist analysis of pre-school teachers’ practical work with multilingual children’s language development
- 2023
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Ingår i: Cogent Education. - : Taylor & Francis. - 2331-186X. ; 10:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article was to re-examine the empirical research focused on the creation and recreation of pre-school teachers’ identity and their practices with multilingual children and language development. The analysis was based on empirical sequences from previously published qualitative analyses with the assistance of an interactionist perspective and earlier research revolving around the phenomenon of “social interaction and learning”. Pre-school teachers emphasised the significance of everyday practical interactions for language development and presented themselves as competent parties who build upon their knowledge via interaction with multilingual children. Thus, the interaction with multilingual children becomes a fundamental dimension of the pre-school teachers’ professional identity. The interactive dimension is important to the successful involvement and integration of multilingual children in the pre-school context and social pedagogical recognition of the identity of pre-school teachers who engage in practical work among these children.
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- Almevall, Ariel, et al.
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Perceptions of a good life for the oldest old living at home
- 2022
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Ingår i: International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. - : Linköping University Electronic Press. - 1652-8670. ; 16:1, s. 25-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- An increasing number of people are growing older and living longer in their homes. This study aims to describe key stakeholders’ (politicians, managers, and professionals) perceptions of a good life for single-living oldest old persons living at home with extensive needs for support. Interviews with stakeholders were analysed with content analysis. The analysis resulted in the theme: An incongruence between intentions and actions in promoting a good life for the oldest old. Our findings show a gap between intentions and actions, which caused feelings of powerlessness in the key stakeholders. To promote a good life for the oldest old persons, a congruence is needed between individual awareness and the prerequisite of promoting a good life. Developing methods that identify and bridge gaps between intentions and actions could support the abilities of organisations to promote a good life for the oldest old persons with extensive needs for support.
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- Li, Ying, et al.
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Determinants of serum half-lives for linear and branched perfluoroalkyl substances after long-term high exposure-A study in Ronneby, Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Environment International. - : Elsevier BV. - 0160-4120 .- 1873-6750. ; 163
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent substances with surfactant and repellent properties. Municipal drinking water contaminated with PFAS had been distributed for decades to one third of households in Ronneby, Sweden. The source was firefighting foam used in a nearby airfield since the mid-1980s. Clean water was provided from December 16, 2013. Aims: The purpose was to estimate serum half-lives and their determinants in the study population for different PFAS. Methods: Up to ten blood samples were collected between 2014 and 2018 from 114 participants (age 4-84 years at entry, 53% female). 19 PFAS were analysed. Linear mixed models were used to estimate the half-lives. Results: Eight PFAS were increased in Ronneby: perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluoropentane sulfonate (PFPeS), perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHxS), perfluoroheptane sulfonate (PFHpS), linear perfluorooctane sulfonate (L-PFOS) and three branched perfluorooctane sulfonates (1 m-PFOS, 3/4/5m-PFOS and 2/6m-PFOS). The mean estimated half-lives (in years) were 0.94 (95 %CI 0.86-1.02) for PFPeS, 2.47 (2.27-2.7) for PFOA, 2.67 (2.51-2.85) for 2/6m-PFOS, 2.73 (2.55-2.92) for L-PFOS, 3.43 (3.19-3.71) for 3/4/5m-PFOS, 4.52 (4.14-4.99) for PFHxS, 4.55 (4.14-5.06) for PFHpS, and 5.01 (4.56-5.55) for 1 m-PFOS. The most important determinants of a shorter half-life were young age, and better kidney function measured by estimated glomerular filtration rate and ratio of paired urine and serum PFAS levels, followed by female sex during their fertile period aged 15-50. Markers of gut inflammation and reduced permeability i.e. zonulin and calprotectin were also possibly associated with shorter half-life. The results also suggested a time-dependent PFAS elimination process, with more rapid elimination in the first year after the end of exposure. Conclusion: The half-life estimates are in line with past estimates for some PFAS such as PFOA, and the novel results for different PFOS isomers. These results provide observational support for elimination routes - renal, fecal and maternal.
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- Nilsson, Carina, et al.
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Interactionist Analysis of Professional Identities in Pre-school Context
- 2020
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to develop new knowledge concerning creation and re-creation of pre-school teachers’ professional identity during the practical work with language development in multilingual children. The analysis was based on empirical sequences from previously published qualitative analyses with the assistance of an interactionist perspective and earlier research revolving around the phenomenon of ‘social interaction and learning’. Three themes are presented: language development during play, language development during mealtime, and language development during story reading. Pre-school teachers emphasised the significance of everyday practical interactions for language development and presented themselves as competent parties who build upon their knowledge via interaction with multilingual children. Thus, the interaction with multilingual children becomes a fundamental dimension of the pre-school teachers’ professional identity. The interactive dimension is important to the successful involvement and integration of multilingual children in the school context and recognition of the identity of pre-school teachers who engage in practical work among these children.
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- Xu, Yiyi, et al.
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Serum Half-Lives for Short- and Long-Chain Perfluoroalkyl Acids after Ceasing Exposure from Drinking Water Contaminated by Firefighting Foam
- 2020
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Ingår i: Environmental Health Perspectives. - 1552-9924 .- 0091-6765. ; 128:7, s. 77004-77004
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Firefighting foam-contaminated ground water, which contains high levels of perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), is frequently found around airports. In 2018 it was detected that employees at a municipal airport in northern Sweden had been exposed to high levels of short-chain PFAS along with legacy PFAS (i.e., PFOA, PFHxS, and PFOS) through drinking water.OBJECTIVES: In this study, we aimed to describe the PFAS profile in drinking water and biological samples (paired serum and urine) and to estimate serum half-lives of the short-chain PFAS together with legacy PFAS.METHODS: Within 2 weeks after provision of clean water, blood sampling was performed in all 26 airport employees. Seventeen of them were then followed up monthly for 5 months. PFHxA, PFHpA, PFBS, PFPeS, and PFHpS together with legacy PFAS in water and biological samples were quantified using LC/MS/MS. Half-lives were estimated by assuming one compartment, first-order elimination kinetics.RESULTS: The proportions of PFHxA, PFHpA, and PFBS were higher in drinking water than in serum. The opposite was found for PFHxS and PFOS. The legacy PFAS accounted for about 50% of total PFAS in drinking water and 90% in serum. Urinary PFAS levels were very low compared with serum. PFBS showed the shortest half-life {average 44 d [95% confidence interval (CI): 37, 55 d]}, followed by PFHpA [62 d (95% CI: 51, 80 d)]. PFPeS and PFHpS showed average half-lives as 0.63 and 1.46 y, respectively. Branched PFOS isomers had average half-lives ranging from 1.05 to 1.26 y for different isomers. PFOA, PFHxS, and linear PFOS isomers showed average half-lives of 1.77, 2.87, and 2.93 y, respectively.DISCUSSION: A general pattern of increasing half-lives with increasing chain length was observed. Branched PFOS isomers had shorter half-lives than linear PFOS isomers. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP6785.
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- Knutagård, Marcus, et al.
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Ethical and Methodological Challenges in Action Research on Homelessness Services
- 2019
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Ingår i: ; , s. 1-1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Action research has another objective than dominating concepts in social science research – where the research aspects of the study are emphasized rather than creating change, and where objectivity, neutrality and avoidance of bias are important notions in the research process. The action research approach also means that the researchers will cooperate with various actors, such as social workers and service users. This collaboration poses ethical and methodological challenges that are not as explicitly relevant to conventional social science research. One example of an ethical challenge is the questions about confidentiality in the activities being investigated. Methodological challenges can, for example, entail that researchers, social workers and service users havedifferent expectations and views on how the research should be conducted and how the activities should be developed. Another challenge is that, although it is often the practitioners that take the initiative and invite the researchers into action research projects, the researchers often have greater influence on the research design. The aim of this paper is to examine, analyze and reflect on how social workers and service users view their involvement in a research project to develop homelessness work in the city of Helsingborg in Sweden. A substantial conclusion is that it is of great importance to maintain a continuous dialogue between service users, social workers and researchers, not least to support the service users and the social workers in their role as peer researchers. The project was carried out in 2014 to 2017 and its purpose was to improve the social housing program in Helsingborg byimplementing core principles and core elements from the Housing first philosophy.
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