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- Andersson, Åsa, et al.
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Adverse events in nursing : a retrospective study of reports of patient and relative experiences
- 2015
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Ingår i: International Nursing Review. - : International Council of Nurses. - 0020-8132 .- 1466-7657. ; 62:3, s. 377-385
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Patient safety is an important global issue. While it is well known that patients can suffer from adverse events in nursing care, there is a lack of knowledge as to how they experience them. The aim was to examine adverse events in nursing care as they are experienced by patients and relatives. This was a retrospective study taking both a qualitative and quantitative approach. It was based on data regarding 242 adverse events in nursing care, as reported by patients and relatives to Sweden's Medical Responsibility Board, content analysis was used to analys the reports. Patients' and relatives' experiences were analysed into four categories of adverse events, as concerning participation, clinical judgement, nursing intervention and the essentials of care. The reports were classified by the Medical Responsibility Board, without a standardized system. The adverse events reported were few in number and were reported by patients and relatives only. Lack of participation has negative consquences and contributes to adverse events. Adverse events occur through missed care as well as through carer errors. Nurses need to improve their skills that support patient participation. Patient participation needs to be incorporated into nurses' duties. Resources for patients to participate in their own care needs to be a priority underpinning policy-making in health systems. Nursing education systems need to teach students about the value and benefits of involving patients in their care.
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- Andersson, Åsa, et al.
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Factors contributing to serious adverse events in nursing homes
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Clinical Nursing. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0962-1067 .- 1365-2702. ; 27:1-2, s. e354-e362
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to identify the most common serious adverse events that occurred in nursing homes and their most frequent contributing factors to contribute to improvement of safe nursing care. BACKGROUND: There is a need to improve safe nursing care in nursing homes. Residents are often frail and vulnerable with extensive needs for nursing care. A relatively minor adverse event in nursing care can cause serious injury that could have been preventable. DESIGN: This was a retrospective study, with a total sample of data regarding adverse events (n=173) in nursing homes, concerning nursing care reported by health care providers in Sweden to the Health and Social Care Inspectorate. The reports were analysed with content analysis and the frequencies of the adverse events, and their contributing factors, were described with descriptive statistics. RESULTS: Medication errors, falls, delayed or inappropriate intervention and missed nursing care caused the vast majority (89%) of the serious adverse events. A total of 693 possible contributing factors were identified. The most common contributing factors were 1) lack of competence 2) incomplete, or lack of documentation 3) teamwork failure 4) and inadequate communication. CONCLUSIONS: The contributing factors frequently interacted yet they varied between different groups of serious adverse events. The resident's safety depends on the availability of staff's competence as well as adequate documentation about the resident's condition. Lack of competence was underestimated by health care providers. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: Registered Nurses and assistant nurses need to have awareness of contributing factors to adverse events in nursing care. A holistic approach to improve patient safety in nursing homes requires competence of the staff, safe environments as well as resident's and relative's participation. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
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- Berlin, Anita, et al.
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Psychometric characteristics of a modified Sympathy-Acceptance-Understanding-Caring competence model questionnaire among foreign-born parents encountering nurses in primary child health care services
- 2016
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Ingår i: Primary Health Care Research and Development. - : Cambridge University Press. - 1463-4236 .- 1477-1128. ; 17:3, s. 298-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim was to determine the psychometric properties of the Sumpathy-Acceptance-Understanding-Caring Competence (SAUK) model questionnaire for foreign-born parents evaluating nursing encounters in the Swedish Primary Child Health Care (PCHC) services. Multicultural encounters in child health care from the nursing perspectives are challenging and problematic worlwide. A suitable theory-based and validated questionnaire is needed for foreign-born parents to assess the quality of their encounters with nurses. The SAUC questionnaire, modified for use by new, foreign-born parents using the Swedish PCHC services, was evaluated for its congruence with the theory of Confirming Encounter. The study was ethically approved and data were collected between March and August 2009 from 83 new foreign-born parents seen at 50 clinics. Exploratory factor analysis was used to identifiy related factors, and goodness-of-fit tests were used to estimate theoretical consistency. Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used to verify the results. The questionnaire had satisfactory theoretical consistency with the theory of Confirming Encounter. Three factors identified by exploratory factor analysis and confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis - person support, self-support, and self-perspective support - indicated internal consistency and validated the three factors implicit in the Confirming Encounter. In addition, a new factor, concordance, was identified that is compatible with the theory. To conclude, despite the fact that a modified questionnaire have its limitations results demonstrate that the SAUC-model questionnaire seems to be a reliable and valid nursing quality-control measure with which foreign-born parents can evaluate the qualities of a confirming encounter with nurses. However, we suggest the need for testing the questionnaire in a larger population.
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- Olsson, Pernilla Turonen, et al.
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Standardized care plans in Swedish health care : their quality and the extent to which they are used.
- 2009
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 23:4, s. 820-825
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The objective was to investigate the quality of standardized care plans and the extent to which they are used within Swedish in-hospital somatic care. Further, to examine the quality of the knowledge summaries on which existing standardized care plans were supposed to be based. Submitted documents were reviewed with studyspecific protocols. The setting was a national survey, based on a structured selection of Swedish hospitals. A total of 25 Swedish hospitals participated, and were asked to submit all documents in use that were labelled standardized care plans. Only 4% (34 out of 782) of the reviewed documents fulfilled the criteria for being a standardized care plan. None of the 34 knowledge summaries (an accompanying document with a compilation of scientif facts and reliable experience) was evidence-based. the conclusion is that there is a lack of knowledge regarding what a standardized care plan is, and how such a document should emanate from evidence-based knowledge. Our results raise the question of how recent developments in research are used to create standardized care plans for the best possible care. In the process of developing standardized care plans it is important to acknowledge that staff who develop these plans need scientific training end experience. Standardized care plans are in the early stages of development, and at this stage it seems appropriate to initiate a discussion regarding possible cooperation at national level when developing standardized care plans for certain groups of patients suffering from specific diseases, or undergoing the same treatment.
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