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- Gustafsson, Lena-Karin, 1966-, et al.
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Aspects of nursing with evidence-base when nursing frail older adults : a phenomenographic analysis of interviews with nurses in municipal care
- 2014
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 28:4, s. 793-801
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In earlier research as well as in political discussion and documents, the topic of evidence has been highlighted as one of the most important concerns in nursing care. This study focuses on understanding what lies behind nurses' ways of acting regarding evidence-based nursing through an illumination of the way they perceive the phenomena.AIM: The aim was to identify and describe the different ways municipal care nurses perceive aspects of working with evidence when nursing frail older adults.METHODS: An explorative design with a phenomenographic approach based on interviews with nurses working with home-based care within the municipality was used in order to gain understanding of nurse's perceptions of the phenomena.RESULTS: Findings revealed that the nurses perceived a variety of aspects when working with evidence when nursing frail older people. Aspects with a spectra of different perceptions shown in the analysis were as follows: Evidence-based nursing as a desired intention/mission, lack of practical supporting structures to apply evidence, lack of confidence in own capacity to apply evidence and a belief that it will work anyway.CONCLUSIONS: Findings reveal that it is a challenge to implement research both on an individual as well as on an organisational level. Understanding the contextual perceptions of evidence by nurses can cast light on the barriers as well as the prerequisites of working with evidence while caring for frail older adults in municipal care.
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- Gustafsson, Lena-Karin, 1966-
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Försoning : ur ett vårdvetenskapligt perspektiv
- 2008
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Avhandlingens övergripande syfte var att ur ett vårdvetenskapligt perspektiv belysa försoningens innebörder i förhållande till människans hälsa och lidande. Valet av perspektiv grundar sig på vårdvetenskapens ställningstaganden i relation till hälsa och lidande. De grundantaganden som varit forskningens utgångspunkt är att hälsa är mer än frånvaro av sjukdom, att hälsa innebär helhet och helighet, att lidande är en oskiljaktig del av livet samt att lidande och hälsa utgör varandras förutsättningar. Valet av perspektiv grundar sig dessutom på den kliniska vårdvetenskapens tankar om grundforskning vilken har som sin övergripande uppgift att forma ideal för vårdandet. Grundforskning inom klinisk vårdvetenskap syftar i första hand till utveckling av kunskap kring hälsa, lidande och vårdande samt förståelse för dessa fenomen i den kliniska situationen. Föreliggande forsknings övergripande frågeställningen var: Vad är försoningens innebörder? Denna frågeställning följdes av: Vad är försoning relaterat till hälsa och lidande? Forskningen har genomförts via fyra delstudier som alla skiftat gällande material och metod. Den övergripande metodologin har haft sin utgångspunkt i hermeneutik inspirerad av Paul Ricoeur. Den första delstudien är en metasyntes av aktuell forskning som berört försoning, medan den andra delstudien utgörs av en begreppsanalys av ordböcker. Delstudie tre består av skönlitterära texter som lyfter fram innebörder av försoning. Tolkningsprocessen i den tredje delstudien har följt en fenomenologisk hermeneutik riktning. Den fjärde delstudien är empirisk och utgår från berättelser om försoning. Dessa försoningsberättelser, från åtta kvinnor med personliga erfarenhet av sorg, har tolkats med utgångspunkt i en hermeneutisk narrativ ansats. Slutligen har en stillbild skapats utifrån förståelsen så som den framträder framför texten då avhandlingens olika delstudier gått i dialektik med varandra samt med tolkningsramen. Stillbilden utgör en belysning av försoningens innebörder i förhållande till människans hälsa och lidande. I denna visuella stillbild framträder två olika former av innebörder; De yttre formerna av försoningens innebörder belyser försoningens gestaltning och position i förhållande till hälsa och lidande. Försoning innehar en progressiv form som innebär en övergång från upplevelse av delar till helhet men också en helande process mellan dåtid och nutid samt utgör därmed en länk till framtiden. De inre formerna av försoningens innebörder belyser människans inre förhållande till hälsa och lidande. Försoningens innebörd kan ses som ett förenande genom härbärgerande av motsatser som tidigare varit skilda och omöjliga att rymma inom människan i en heterogens syntes.
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- Gustafsson, Lena-Karin, 1966-, et al.
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The meaning of reconciliation : Women’s stories about theirexperience of reconciliation with suffering from grief
- 2011
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley Blackwell. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 25:3, s. 525-532
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Introduction: Grief can be seen as a form of suffering. In this study grief was not only defined as loss, but as the process of inner suffering caused of some kinds of loss. We must recognise the importance of increased understanding for patient reconciliation with grief to expand earlier formulated knowledge about health and suffering. The aim in this study was ti illuminate the meaning of reconciliation among women suffering from grief.Methods:A qualitative explorative design with a hermeneutic narrative approach was used to analyse and interpret the interviews. Caring theory abouth health, suffering and hermeneutical philosophy about understanding provided the point of departure for the analysis. The study was approved by an ethical research committé.Results:Findings reveal different plots that give light to the meaning of reconciliation in the different phases of analysis. In the Women´s narratives the meaning of reconciliation is a process to a new way of seeing, but also to opening and transition from the experience of grief and suffering to the experience of health and holiness.Conclusions: Reconciliation has a progressive form and the meaning of reconciliation cannot be seen as synonymous or homogenous but an understanding of reconciliation as a heterogenic synthesis of health and suffering. Understanding the reconciliation process will enable nurses to plan and provide professional care, based on caring science.
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- Gustafsson, Lena-Karin, 1966-, et al.
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The meaningful encounter : Patient and next of kin stories about their experience of meaningful encounters in health care
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Ingår i: Nursing Inquiry. - : Wiley. - 1320-7881 .- 1440-1800. ; 20:4, s. 363-371
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study focuses on the meaningful encounters of patients and next of kin, seen from their perspective. Identifying the attributes within meaningful encounters is important for increased understanding of caring and to expand and develop earlier formulated knowledge about caring relationships. Caring theory about the caring relationship and provided a point of departure for the study. The aim of this study was to illuminate the meaningful encounter in health care contexts narrated by patients and next of kin. A qualitative explorative design with a hermeneutic narrative approach was used to analyze and interpret the written narratives. Phases were: Naïve interpretation, structure analysis on two different levels a) analysis of narrative structure b) analysis of deep structure through metaphors and finally a dialectic interpretation. In the narratives the meaning of the meaningful encounter was sharing, a nourishing fellowship, common responsibility and coming together experienced as safety and warmth and gives, by extension, life changing moments, a healing force and dissipated insight. The meaningful encounter can be seen as a complex phenomenon that has different attributes. Understanding the meaningful encounter will enable nurses to plan and provide professional care, based on caring science focusing on patient and next of kin experience.
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- Jonasson, Karin, et al.
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You Live as Much as You Have Time To : The Experience of Patients Living with Hemodialysis
- 2017
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Ingår i: Nephrology Nursing Journal. - : JANNETTI PUBLICATIONS, INC. - 1526-744X .- 2163-5390. ; 44:1, s. 35-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Changes in their daily lives that patients endure because of hemodialysis are major and also essential so they can stay alive. The aim of this study was to describe changes in life for patients with renal failure undergoing hemodialysis. The study has a qualitative descriptive approach with a qualitative content analysis based on in-depth interviews with patients undergoing hemodialysis. Results show that life in hemodialysis is experienced as a transition from liberty to captivity, adjusting to the new life, and the new life moving towards reconciliation. This study shows that support towards reconciliation is crucial for patient health.
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- Järlskog, Ida, 1991, et al.
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Traffic-related microplastic particles, metals, and organic pollutants in an urban area under reconstruction
- 2021
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Ingår i: Science of the Total Environment. - : Elsevier BV. - 0048-9697 .- 1879-1026. ; 774
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In urban environments, particularly areas under reconstruction, metals, organic pollutants (OP), and microplastics (MP), are released in large amounts due to heavy traffic. Road runoff, a major transport route for urban pollutants, contributes significantly to a deteriorated water quality in receiving waters. This study was conducted in Gothenburg, Sweden, and is unique because it simultaneously investigates the occurrence of OP, metals, and MP on roads and in stormwater from an urban area under reconstruction. Correlations between the various pollutants were also explored. The study was carried out by collecting washwater and sweepsand generated from street sweeping, road surface sampling, and flow-proportional stormwater sampling on several occasions. The liquid and solid samples were analyzed for metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), oxy-PAH, aliphatics, aromatics, phthalates, and MP. The occurrence of OP was also analyzed with a non-target screening method of selected samples. Microplastics, i.e. plastic fragments/fibers, paint fragments, tire wear particles (TWP) and bitumen, were analyzed with a method based on density separation with sodium iodide and identification with a stereo microscope, melt-tests, and tactile identification. MP concentrations amounted to 1500 particles/L in stormwater, 51,000 particles/L in washwater, and 2.6 × 106 particles/kg dw in sweepsand. In stormwater, washwater and sweepsand, MP ≥20 μm were found to be dominated by TWP (38%, 83% and 78%, respectively). The results confirm traffic as an important source to MP, OP, and metal emissions. Concentrations exceeding water and sediment quality guidelines for metals (e.g. Cu and Zn), PAH, phthalates, and aliphatic hydrocarbons in the C16–C35 fraction were found in most samples. The results show that the street sweeper collects large amounts of polluted materials and thereby prevents further spread of the pollutants to the receiving stormwater.
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- Asztalos Morell, Ildikó, et al.
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Middle-class older adults living alone in urban India : Older adults’ understandings of ageing alone
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Ingår i: Journal of Religion, Spirituality & Aging. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1552-8030 .- 1552-8049. ; , s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study sheds light on the value systems of the middle-class metropolitan older adults living alone, on the ageing self and the person's relationship to the surrounding society based on eight interviews. Ageing research has emphasized the traditional features of elderly care in India including its collectivist values rooted in filial piety and the extended family as well as embracement of disengagement influenced by the Hindu texts on two phases in later life: "hermit" and "renunciate". Increased social and geographical mobility, however, challenges traditional family systems. Using the example of the urban middle-class older adults living alone, this study explored whether living alone constitutes a challenge to the norms that previous research associated with Indian elderly care. Using abductive phenomenographic analysis the study found that the understandings of older adults in the study show great reflexivity concerning key aspects of their lives. Although the life conditions of older adults living alone deviated in many aspects from dominant traditional norms of filial piety and a care regime based on strong intergenerational interdependence, their responses and reflections mirrored assemblages of values deeply rooted in Hindu Vedic philosophy of the Ashramas and perceptions of independence, autonomy and self-reliance associated with Western "productive" aging.
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- Asztalos Morell, Ildikó, 1958-, et al.
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Silence or voice? : Agency freedom among elderly women living in extended families in urban India
- 2020
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-7827 .- 1660-4601. ; 17:23, s. 1-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The preferential form of living for the elderly in India is within the extended family. India is undergoing rapid economic development, an increase in mobility, and changes in gender norms due to an increase in women’s labour force participation, which places challenges on traditional intergenerational relationships. Ageing and the well-being of the elderly is a rising concern, especially considering that their proportion of the population is expected to grow rapidly in coming decades. There is a lack of universal state provision for the elderly’s basic needs, which is especially profound for elderly women, since most do not have an independent income. This leaves the elderly dependent upon the benevolence of their adult children’s families or other relatives. This paper explores, with help of narrative analysis and critical contributions from capability theory, elderly women’s agency freedoms and how this can be contextualised with their varying capability sets. With help of Spivak’s notion of the silent subaltern, the paper anchors elderly women’s abilities to voice to their agency freedom. The master narrative of the silent supportive wife and side-lined mother-in-law as well as three counter-narratives explore alternative agencies taken by elderly women.
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