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- Engström, Maria, et al.
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Caregivers' job satisfaction and empowerment before and after an intervention focused on caregiver empowerment
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Nursing Management. - : Hindawi Limited. - 0966-0429 .- 1365-2834. ; 18:1, s. 14-23
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aims: To evaluate a training programme aimed at strengthening caregivers' self-esteem and empowering them, and also to study correlations between psychological empowerment and job satisfaction.Background: Structural and psychological empowerment have received increased attention in nursing management, yet few intervention studies on this topic, based on theoretical assumptions, have been conducted in elderly care.Method: Data on self-assessed psychological empowerment and job satisfaction were collected in an intervention (n = 14) and a comparison group (n = 32), before and after the intervention.Results: When compared over time in the respective groups, there were significant improvements in the intervention group regarding the factor criticism (job satisfaction scale). There were no statistically significant differences in the comparison group. Total empowerment and all factors of empowerment correlated positively with total job satisfaction. Six out of eight factors of job satisfaction correlated positively with total empowerment.Conclusions: Caregivers' perception of criticism can improve through an intervention aimed at strengthening their self-esteem and empowering them.Implications for nursing management: Intervention focused on psychological empowerment and especially caregivers' communication skills seems to be beneficial for caregivers. Recommendations are to increase the programme's length and scope and to include all staff at the unit. However, these recommendations need to be studied further.
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- Hagerman, Heidi, 1980-, et al.
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Male first-line managers’ experiences of the work situation in elderly care : an empowerment perspective
- 2015
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Ingår i: Journal of Nursing Management. - : Hindawi Limited. - 0966-0429 .- 1365-2834. ; 23:6, s. 695-704
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AimTo describe male first-line managers' experiences of their work situation in elderly care.BackgroundFirst-line managers' work is challenging. However, less attention has been paid to male managers' work situation in health care. Knowledge is needed to empower male managers.MethodFourteen male first-line managers were interviewed. The interview text was subjected to qualitative content analysis.ResultWork situations were described as complex and challenging; challenges were the driving force. They talked about ‘Being on one's own but not feeling left alone’, ‘Having freedom within set boundaries’, ‘Feeling a sense of satisfaction and stimulation’, ‘Feeling a sense of frustration’ and ‘Having a feeling of dejection and resignation’.ConclusionAlthough the male managers report deficiencies in the support structure, they largely experience their work as a positive challenge.Implications for nursing managementTo meet increasing challenges, male first-line managers need better access to supportive structural conditions. Better access to resources is needed in particular, allowing managers to be more visible for staff and to work with development and quality issues instead of administrative tasks. Regarding organisational changes and the scrutiny of management and the media, they lack and thus need support and information from superiors.
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- Hagerman, Heidi, et al.
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Manliga första-linjens chefers upplevelser av sin arbetssituation i äldreomsorgen – med utgångspunkt i empowerment
- 2018
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Ingår i: FALF KONFERENS 2018 Arbetet – problem eller potential för en hållbar livsmiljö? 10-12 juni 2018 Gävle. - : Gävle University Press. - 9789188145284 ; , s. 143-
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- BakgrundDen svenska äldreomsorgen blir allt mer ansträngande att arbeta inom. Stora organisa-toriska förändringar har lett till att arbetet upplevs som oroligt och stressfullt. Den administrativa rollen har ökat och första-linjens chefers möjligheter att delta i det dagliga arbetet har minskat. För att klara av de allt högre krav som ställs är det viktigt att cheferna känner att de har goda strukturella förutsättningar (empowerment), handlingsutrymme och känner att de har kontroll över sitt arbete.SyfteAtt beskriva manliga första-linjens chefers upplevelser av sin arbetssituation i äldreomsorgen.MetodSemi-strukturerade intervjuer gjordes med fjorton manliga första-linjens chefer i äldreomsorgen i Sverige från hösten 2010 till våren 2011. Intervjuguiden var inspirerad av teorier om empowerment. Tolv chefer arbetade inom kommunal äldreomsorg och två chefer inom privat äldreomsorg. Deltagarna valdes utifrån ett ändamålsenligt urval med förhoppningen om att ge en variation i sina skildringar. De hade arbetat som chefer mellan 0.5-35 år. Intervjuerna varade mellan 1-2.5 timmar och materialet analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Två teman och fem subteman skapades.ResultatDet första temat handlade om när organisatoriska krav var i balans med chefernas upplevda chefsansvar och strukturella förutsättningar. Där beskrevs upplevelserna av att vara ensam men inte utelämnad, att ha frihet inom givna ramar samt en känsla av tillfredsställelse och stimulans i arbetet. Det andra temat handlade om när organisatoriska krav var i obalans med chefernas upplevda chefsansvar och strukturella förutsättningar. Detta tema beskrev chefernas känsla av frustration och en känsla av uppgivenhet. Sammantaget upplevde de manliga första-linjens cheferna att arbetssituationen var både utmanande, komplex och föränderlig. Cheferna behövde bättre tillgång till strukturella förutsättningar, speciellt i form av resurser, stöd och information. Utmaningarna sågs dock som en ständig drivkraft för cheferna. De beskrev att deras arbete var ”mödan värt” även om de ibland upplevde arbetssituationen som negativ. Slutsatsen i studien var att cheferna upplevde sitt arbete som en positiv utmaning även om de beskrev brister i sitt stöd.
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- Häggström, Elisabeth, et al.
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A nine-month intervention programme focusing on empowerment : caregivers' descriptions of changed behaviour and increased room for acting
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Clinical Nursing. - : Wiley. - 0962-1067 .- 1365-2702. ; 18:6, s. 866-873
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AIMS AND OBJECTIVES: To describe public nursing home Enrolled Nurses' and Nurses Aides' view of their work and their perceptions of themselves in their professional role while they were receiving a serious of role awareness sessions focusing on empowerment for nine months. BACKGROUND: According to several studies, it is typical that women may experience problems and injustices at work. The main focus of the intervention was to help enrolled nurses' and nurses aides' in developing their self-image and professional role. DESIGN: This study was descriptive and qualitative in design. METHODS: The present study comprises semi-structured interviews conducted with enrolled nurses and nurses aides (n = 14) from public nursing homes at start of the intervention and again nine months following the intervention. The text from the interviews was analysed using latent content analysis. RESULTS: The main findings primarily show an improved professional role for the caregivers, as described in the following themes: the move from passivity to activity, the move from complaining to understanding, the move from expectations to frustration and the move from being silent to speaking loud. CONCLUSIONS: For caregivers working with older people within public nursing home care, it seems to be a good form of clinical supervision to implement a serious of role awareness sessions in order to improve their professional role. RELEVANCE TO CLINICAL PRACTICE: The findings showed that an intervention providing opportunities with focus on empowerment improved the enrolled nurses' and nurses aides' professional role in working with older people. This can be useful information for managers and educators and they may want to adapt it when working in a public nursing home.
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- Häggström, Elisabeth, et al.
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Caregivers working with older people experience work dissatisfaction and low self-esteem orginating from power relations in municipal care organization
- 2009
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Ingår i: Tidsskrift for Sygeplejeforskning. - 0900-3002. ; 25:2, s. 27-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study explores how a combined gender and power perspective might explain and help us understand caregivers´ expressions of low self-esteem and dissatisfaction in their work with older people. The aim of the study was to discover whether caregivers’ experiences in the nursing home can be understood on the basis of Ås´ framework of the Five Master Techniques. The study was conducted within the municipal gerontological care system in Sweden and has an explorative, qualitative design. Twenty caregivers were interviewed, and the interviews were analysed using a qualitative content approach. Based on Ås´ theory of Five Master Techniques, the caregivers’ experiences of being made to feel invisible, ridiculed, deprived of information, receiving double punishment and feelings of guilt and shame emerged from the analyses. The study shows that the caregivers’ experiences, listed above, were all obvious at the nursing home and that these experiences also affected their feelings of work dissatisfaction and low self-esteem. The findings show the importance of using a gender perspective in caring, so that power relations in the organization can be explored, understood and combated.
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- Häggström, Elisabeth, 1952-, et al.
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Nurses’ opinions about a web-based distance course in a specialist education programme for the care of older people : a questionnaire study
- 2009
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Ingår i: International Journal of Older People Nursing. - : Wiley. - 1748-3735 .- 1748-3743. ; 4:3, s. 177-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim. The aim of the present study was to investigate students’ opinions about a web-based distance learning course that was part of a specialist education programme. Design. Survey. Method. The study was a descriptive survey with both qualitative and quantitative questions. Results. The students found the web-based course very useful for their theoretical and professional development. New perspectives on ageing, increased knowledge about analysing and describing theories as well as practising interviews and qualitative analysis as methods were appreciated by the students. Conclusions. One way for RNs in Sweden to get a university specialist education in the care of older people is to have a distance web-based course, as it allows flexibility and improves the students’ theoretical and professional knowledge and communication skills. Relevance for clinical practice. Managers working in care for older people settings and educators will be interested in this study’s finding that distance learning is a useful strategy for providing education for RNs who work with older people.
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- Wadensten, Barbro, 1954-, et al.
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Nurses´ workplace distress and ethical dilemmas in Tanzanian health care.
- 2008
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Ingår i: Nursing Ethics. - : SAGE Publications. - 0969-7330 .- 1477-0989. ; 15:4, s. 478-491
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to describe Tanzanian nurses’ meaning of and experiences with ethical dilemmas and workplace distress in different care settings. An open question guide was used and the study focused on the answers that 29 registered nurses supplied. The theme, ‘Tanzanian registered nurses’ invisible and visible expressions about existential conditions in care’, emerged from several subthemes as: suffering from (1) workplace distress; (2) ethical dilemmas; (3) trying to maintaining good quality nursing care; (4) lack of respect, appreciation and influence; and (5) a heavy workload that did not prevent registered nurses from struggling for better care for their patients. The analysis shows that, on a daily basis, nurses find themselves working on the edge of life and death, while they have few opportunities for doing anything about this situation. Nurses need professional guidance to gain insight and be able to reflect on their situations, so that they do not become overloaded with ethical dilemmas and workplace distress.
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- Wadensten, Barbro, et al.
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Public nursing home staff's experience of participating in an intervention aimed at enhancing their self-esteem
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of Nursing Management. - : Hindawi Limited. - 0966-0429 .- 1365-2834. ; 17:7, s. 833-842
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim The aim of the present study was to gain an understanding of how nursing staff experienced participating in a training programme aimed at strengthening their self-esteem and empowering them, to determine whether participation benefited them in any way, and to describe their opinions about possible benefits or disadvantages. Background Staff working in institutions such as nursing homes have a low status in society. A training programme was introduced to staff in a public nursing home. It focused on helping them understand factors in the work situation that influence them and on empowering them. Method The study was explorative and qualitative in design. Findings The participants in the programme were generally satisfied with it. Their opinions about the benefits they received from the programme can be described using three themes: 'improved communication skills', 'enhanced self-esteem' and 'sees work in a different light'. Conclusions The most important finding of the present study is that it was possible to strengthen and empower staff. Staff members were generally pleased and satisfied with the content/organization of the training programme. They felt the programme had been of value to them by improving their communication skills and increasing their self-esteem. Implications for nursing management The present result could be of value to managers and educators working in the area of nursing home care when planning education and development activities for staff. Learning to communicate better and understand the social structure at the workplace could improve staff members' self-esteem, thereby enhancing the work situation and atmosphere as well as empowering the individuals.
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- Wadensten, Elisabeth, et al.
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Diagnostic Yield From a Nationwide Implementation of Precision Medicine for all Children With Cancer.
- 2023
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Ingår i: JCO Precision Oncology (JCO PO). - : American Society of Clinical Oncology. - 2473-4284. ; 7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Several studies have indicated that broad genomic characterization of childhood cancer provides diagnostically and/or therapeutically relevant information in selected high-risk cases. However, the extent to which such characterization offers clinically actionable data in a prospective broadly inclusive setting remains largely unexplored.We implemented prospective whole-genome sequencing (WGS) of tumor and germline, complemented by whole-transcriptome sequencing (RNA-Seq) for all children diagnosed with a primary or relapsed solid malignancy in Sweden. Multidisciplinary molecular tumor boards were set up to integrate genomic data in the clinical decision process along with a medicolegal framework enabling secondary use of sequencing data for research purposes.During the study's first 14 months, 118 solid tumors from 117 patients were subjected to WGS, with complementary RNA-Seq for fusion gene detection in 52 tumors. There was no significant geographic bias in patient enrollment, and the included tumor types reflected the annual national incidence of pediatric solid tumor types. Of the 112 tumors with somatic mutations, 106 (95%) exhibited alterations with a clear clinical correlation. In 46 of 118 tumors (39%), sequencing only corroborated histopathological diagnoses, while in 59 cases (50%), it contributed to additional subclassification or detection of prognostic markers. Potential treatment targets were found in 31 patients (26%), most commonly ALK mutations/fusions (n = 4), RAS/RAF/MEK/ERK pathway mutations (n = 14), FGFR1 mutations/fusions (n = 5), IDH1 mutations (n = 2), and NTRK2 gene fusions (n = 2). In one patient, the tumor diagnosis was revised based on sequencing. Clinically relevant germline variants were detected in 8 of 94 patients (8.5%).Up-front, large-scale genomic characterization of pediatric solid malignancies provides diagnostically valuable data in the majority of patients also in a largely unselected cohort.
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