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- Larsson, Maria, 1968-
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Eating problems in patients with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy : Needs, problems and support during the trajectory of care
- 2006
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim: The overall aim of this thesis was to acquire knowledge about daily life with focus on eating problems during the trajectory of care for patients with head and neck cancer treated with radiotherapy. Method: The data in study I were gained from medical and nursing records of 50 patients. Documented parameters of eating problems, their causes and consequences, and undertaken interventions were collected before treatment, during radiotherapy, and one, six, and twelve months after completion of treatment, using a study-specific audit instrument. Data were analysed with descriptive and inferential non-parametric statistics. In study II eight patients were interviewed during the radiotherapy treatment period with focus on experiences of eating problems. In study III nine patients were interviewed six to twelve weeks after treatment with the focus on experiences of daily life during the trajectory of care having eating problems. In study IV twelve patients were interviewed about their conceptions of the significance of a supportive nursing care clinic during the whole trajectory of care. Data were analysed with interpretative phenomenology (II, III) and phenomenography (IV). Findings: The four studies showed that being a patient in the trajectory of care often meant that life was disturbed and threatened. This was partly due to the eating problems and their consequences, which could occur during the whole trajectory of care (I, III, IV) but was experienced as most intense and severe during radiotherapy (II) and the nearest weeks after completion of radiotherapy (III, IV). The disturbances and threats experienced due to eating problems could affect the whole person as they were physical (I-IV), psychological, social and existential (II, III). The experiences of eating problems due to the tumour and its treatment and the experience of having cancer per se were strongly connected as one phenomenon, which disturbed and threatened the informants’ daily life. The other part that disturbed the patients’ life was the waiting in suspense. A long and trying waiting in uncertainty was experienced due to lack of knowledge and support, practical as well as emotional. This was most pronounced during pauses in radiotherapy (III) and after completion of the treatment when the lack of support from the health care was obvious (I, II, III). The patients were then most often left to their own devices. In order to endure, they needed both inner strength, described as own coping strategies, and strength from outside, described as support from family, friends and health care professionals (II, III). The nurse clinic was found to give a hand to hold during the whole trajectory of care (IV). It could meet these patients’ needs of knowledge, care and support, both concerning practical measures related to the eating problems and other side-effects of the treatment, and concerning their emotional needs. In addition the nurse clinic could support the relatives in their worries and anxiety (IV). Conclusion: This thesis showed the necessity of continuous assessment, treatment and evaluation of patients’ problems, and the patients’ needs of information and support throughout the trajectory of care.
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- Arvidsson, Barbro, 1945-, et al.
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Uppsatsarbete på kandidatnivå inom omvårdnad : peer-review som kvalitetssäkring
- 2006
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - Oslo, Norge : SSN Sykepleiernes samarbeid i norden. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 26:1, s. 56-59
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this study was to describe degree projects on a bachelor level in nursing where peer review was used as quality assurance. Two student groups, 45 nursing students and seven registered nurses, participated. This case study describes quality assurance through collaboration between examiners. The results are focused on students´, supervisors´ and examiners` experiences during the degree process from the examiners perspective. Time disposal and criteria for a passing grade constituted factors associated with obstacles for students as well for supervisors and examiners. Peer review between two universities created opportunities for increasing awareness and validation of the quality of degree project and increased reliability for the examiner’s assessment. The study highlighted the need for collaboration between supervisors and examiners throughout the work process with student’s degree project. A model of group supervision e.g. with eight students, two supervisors and one examiner with regularly utilisation of peer-review for quality assurance is a further development to reach quality assurance in a degree project.
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- Ballangrud, Randi, 1959-
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Building patient safety in intensive care nursing : Patient safety culture, team performance and simulation-based training
- 2013
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Aim: The overall aim of the thesis was to investigate patient safety culture, team performance and the use of simulation-based team training for building patient safety in intensive care nursing.Methods: Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. In Study I, 220 RNs from ten ICUs responded to a patient safety culture questionnaire analysed with statistics. Studies II-IV were based on an evaluation of a simulation-based team training programme. Studies II-III included 53 RNs from seven ICUs and ten RNs from a post-graduate programme (II). The data were collected with questionnaires (II) and measurement scales (III), and analysed with statistics. In Study IV, 18 RNs were interviewed and the data were analysed with a qualitative content analysis.Main findings: The RNs had positive perceptions of the overall patient safety culture in the ICUs. Hence, a potential for improvements was identified at both the unit and hospital level. Differences between types of ICUs and between hospitals were found. The dimensions at the unit level were predictors for the outcome dimensions (I). The RNs evaluated the simulation-based team training programme in a positive way. Differences with regard to scenario roles, prior simulation experience and area of intensive care practice were found (II). The expert raters assessed the teams’ performance as advanced novice or competent. There were differences between the expert raters’ assessments and the RNs’ self-assessments (III). One main category emerged to illuminate the RNs’ perceptions of simulation-based team training for building patient safety: Regular training increases the awareness of clinical practice and acknowledges the importance of structured work in teams (IV).Conclusions: Patient safety culture measurements have the potential to identify areas in need of improvement, and simulation-based team training is appropriate to create a common understanding of structured work in teams with regard to patient safety.
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- Ballangrud, Randi, 1959-, et al.
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Exploring intensive care nurses' team performance in a simulation-based emergency situation, − expert raters' assessments versus self-assessments: an explorative study
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Ingår i: BMC Nursing. - England : BioMed Central. - 1472-6955. ; 13:47
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BackgroundEffective teamwork has proven to be crucial for providing safe care. The performance of emergencies in general and cardiac arrest situations in particular, has been criticized for primarily focusing on the individual's technical skills and too little on the teams' performance of non-technical skills. The aim of the study was to explore intensive care nurses' team performance in a simulation-based emergency situation by using expert raters' assessments and nurses' self-assessments in relation to different intensive care specialties.MethodsThe study used an explorative design based on laboratory high-fidelity simulation. Fifty-three registered nurses, who were allocated into 11 teams representing two intensive care specialties, participated in a videotaped simulation-based cardiac arrest setting. The expert raters used the Ottawa Crisis Resource Management Global Rating Scale and the first part of the Mayo High Performance Teamwork Scale to assess the teams' performance. The registered nurses used the first part of the Mayo High Performance Teamwork Scale for their self-assessments, and the analyses used were Chi-square tests, Mann–Whitney U tests, Spearman's rho and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Type III.ResultsThe expert raters assessed the teams' performance as either advanced novice or competent, with significant differences being found between the teams from different specialties. Significant differences were found between the expert raters' assessments and the registered nurses' self-assessments.ConclusionsTeams of registered nurses representing specialties with coronary patients exhibit a higher competence in non-technical skills compared to team performance regarding a simulated cardiac arrest. The use of expert raters' assessments and registered nurses' self-assessments are useful in raising awareness of team performance with regard to patient safety.
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- Ballangrud, Randi, 1959-, et al.
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Intensive care nurses' perceptions of simulation-based team training for building pation safety in intensive care: A descriptive qualittaive study
- 2014
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Ingår i: Intensive & Critical Care Nursing. - : Elsevier. - 0964-3397 .- 1532-4036. ; 30:4, s. 179-187
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives: To describe intensive care nurses' perceptions of simulation-based team training for building patient safety in intensive care. Background: Failures in team processes are found to be contributory factors to incidents in an intensive care environment. Simulation-based training is recommended as a method to make health-care personnel aware of the importance of team working and to improve their competencies. Design: The study uses a qualitative descriptive design. Methods: Individual qualitative interviews were conducted with 18 intensive care nurses from May to December 2009, all of which had attended a simulation-based team training programme. The interviews were analysed by qualitative content analysis. Results: One main category emerged to illuminate the intensive care nurse perception: "training increases awareness of clinical practice and acknowledges the importance of structured work in teams". Three generic categories were found: "realistic training contributes to safe care", "reflection and openness motivates learning" and "finding a common understanding of team performance". Conclusions: Simulation-based team training makes intensive care nurses more prepared to care for severely ill patients. Team training creates a common understanding of how to work in teams with regard to patient safety.
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- Ballangrud, Randi, 1959-, et al.
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Intensive care unit nurses' evaluation of simulation used for team training
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nursing in Critical Care. - : Wiley. - 1362-1017 .- 1478-5153. ; 19:4, s. 175-184
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- AimTo implement a simulation-based team training programme and to investigate intensive care nurses' evaluations of simulation used for team training.BackgroundSimulation-based training is recommended to make health care professionals aware of and understand the importance of teamwork related to patient safety.DesignThe study was based on a questionnaire evaluation design.MethodsA total of 63 registered nurses were recruited: 53 from seven intensive care units in four hospitals in one hospital trust and 10 from an intensive care postgraduate education programme. After conducting a simulation-based team training programme with two scenarios related to emergency situations in the intensive care, the participants evaluated each simulation activity with regard to: (i) outcome of satisfaction and self-confidence in learning, (ii) implementation of educational practice and (iii) simulation design/development.ResultIntensive care nurses were highly satisfied with their simulation-based learning, and they were mostly in agreement with the statements about self-confidence in learning. They were generally positive in their evaluation of the implementation of the educational practice and the simulation design/development. Significant differences were found with regard to scenario roles, prior simulation experience and area of intensive care practice.ConclusionThe study indicates a positive reception of a simulation-based programme with regard to team training in emergency situations in an intensive care unit.Relevance to clinical practiceThe findings may motivate and facilitate the use of simulation for team training to promote patient safety in intensive care and provide educators with support to develop and improve simulation-based training programmes.
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- Ballangrud, Randi, 1959-, et al.
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Nurses’ perceptions of patient safety climate in intensive care units : A cross-sectional study
- 2012
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Ingår i: Intensive & Critical Care Nursing. - : Elsevier. - 0964-3397 .- 1532-4036. ; 28:6, s. 344-354
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- OBJECTIVES:To investigate registered nurses' perceptions of the patient safety climate in intensive care units and to explore potential predictors for overall perception of safety and frequency of incident reporting. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY/DESIGN: A cross-sectional design was conducted, using the questionnaire Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture, measuring 12 patient safety climate dimensions: seven at unit and three at hospital level, two outcomes and in addition two outcome items.SETTING:Ten intensive care units (ICUs) in six hospitals in one hospital trust in Norway.RESULTS:In total, 220 registered nurses (RNs) responded (72%). Seven of 12 dimensions achieved a RN proportion of positive scores over 55%. Five achieved a lower proportion. Significant differences in RNs' perceptions of patient safety were found between types of units and between the four hospitals. The total variance in the outcome measure explained by the model as a whole was for the outcome dimensions "overall perception of safety" 32%, and "frequency of incident reporting" 32%. The variables at the unit level made a significant contribution to the outcome.CONCLUSION:RNs in ICU are most positive to patient safety climate at unit level, hence improvements are needed concerning incident reporting, feedback and communication about errors and organisational learning and continuous improvement.
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- Blegeberg, Birgitt, 1956-, et al.
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Nurses conceptions of the professional role of operation theatre and psychiatric nursers
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:3, s. 9-13
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The shortage of specialist trained nurses in the operating theatre and psychiatric care is a problem in Swedish health care. There is a great needfor recruitment since in both areas nurses have a high average age and few students register in these specialties at university. The reason for thelow interest for these specialties is not clear. The purpose of the study was to investigate nurses’ and nurse students’ conceptions of the professionalrole of operating theatre and psychiatric care nurses. A qualitative approach with phenomenographic method was used. Twelve nurses andfour nurse students were interviewed. Three categories of conceptions within each specialty emerged. Operating theatre nurses’professional rolewas perceived as: Dependent assistant, Responsible monitor and Fragmented nurse. Psychiatric nurses’ professional role was perceived as:Empathetic agent, Conscious diplomat and Fragmented nurse. The informants had difficulties in understanding the professional role in bothfields. One conclusion is that the theoretical and clinical training in basic nurse education play an important role for choosing specialist trainingas operating theatre nurse or psychiatric nurse.
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- Dahlqvist Jönsson, Patrik, 1974-, et al.
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Problematization of perspectives on health promotion and empowerment in mental health nursing : within the research network "MeHNuRse" and the Horatio conference, 2012
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. - Abingdon : Informa UK Limited. - 1748-2623 .- 1748-2631. ; 9, s. 22945-
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- Mental illness is increasing worldwide, while society's response seems to be a trend toward narrower and more specialized mental health care. This development is creating great demands on mental health nurses to include a health promotion perspective in care and support of persons with mental illness. A health promotion perspective emphasizes cooperation and communication with people who suffer from long-term mental illness, focusing on their independence and health. From a health perspective, every human being is an actor in his/her own life, with an inherent ability to make his/her own choices. However, persons who suffer from long-term mental illness are at risk of losing power and control over areas of their lives and their health. Mental health nurses are in a position to support these individuals in promoting health and in maintaining or regaining control over their lives. The emphasis of this paper is to problematize mental health nurses' responsibility to provide health-promoting nursing care in relation to empowerment by means of emancipation, self-efficacy, and self-management. We argue that mental health nurses can work from a health-promoting perspective by using these concepts and that this challenges some of the traditional ideas of health promotion in mental health nursing. The theoretical background discussions in this paper have their origin in the research network ''Mental Health Nursing Research in Scandinavia'' (MeHNuRse) and from the professional discussions developed during a 2012 workshop that included mental health nurses and researchers at the European Horatio Festival in Stockholm.
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- Hall-Lord, Marie-Louise, 1951-, et al.
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Hva sier forskning om simulering
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Ingår i: Pasientsimulering i helsefag. - Oslo : Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A/S. - 9788205464445 ; , s. 107-114
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- Hall-Lord, Marie Louise, 1951-, et al.
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Norwegian and Swedish nursing students’ concerns about dying
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Ingår i: Nordic journal of nursing research. - : Sage Publications. - 2057-1585 .- 2057-1593. ; 38:1, s. 18-27
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Providing care for dying patients is demanding for nurses. The aim of this study was to investigate Norwegian and Swedishnursing students’ concerns about dying and sense of coherence in their first and third year. Further, to describe the students’experiences of caring for dying patients during their education. Nursing students in their first and third year in Norway (n¼64)and Sweden (n¼79) responded to the questionnaire Concerns about Dying and Sense of Coherence Scale. Interviews wereconducted with 11 students. In their third year, both groups reported reduced concerns with regard to their own death.Norwegian students with no experience in healthcare before education reported more concerns about dying patients. Caringfor a dying patient was experienced as a challenge to endure, perform and learn. There is a need to develop teaching methodsand to give individualized support to nursing students during their education.
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- Hedelin, Birgitta, et al.
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Hälsobegreppet : synen på hälsa och sjuklighet
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Ingår i: Omvårdnadens grunder. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144083537 ; , s. 361-385
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- Hedelin, Birgitta, et al.
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Hälsobegreppet : synen på hälsa och sjuklighet
- 2009
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Ingår i: Omvårdnadens grunder. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144049069 ; , s. 237-260
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- Sjuksköterskan har en unik och central ställning för att genomföra hälsofrämjande arbete. Forskning visar dock att sjuksköterskor i klinisk verksamhet inte alltid är medvetna om att det övergripande målet med omvårdnaden är att stärka patientens hälsa. Fokus i omvårdnaden ligger i stället till stor del på att medverka i behandling av sjukdom. Förståelsen för hur patienten uppfattar sin situation och förmedlar sina behov för att stärka sin hälsa får ofta en mindre framträdande roll. För att omvårdnaden ska bli mer hälsofrämjande behövs ökad kunskap om vad hälsa och hälsofrämjande insatser innebär för den enskilde individen men också för olika grupper i befolkningen. Forskning om hälsofrämjande omvårdnad fokuserar ofta på att förebygga sjukdom. Därför behövs forskning som syftar till att öka hälsofokus i omvårdnaden, både vad det gäller utveckling av grundläggande perspektiv liksom kliniska strategier och modeller för hälsofrämjande omvårdnad på alla nivåer – på såväl individ-, grupp- som samhällsnivån.
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- Hedelin, Birgitta, et al.
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Hälsobegreppet : synen på hälsa och sjuklighet
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Ingår i: Omvårdnadens grunder: Perspektiv och förhållningssätt. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144049069 ; , s. 237-262
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- Hedelin, Birgitta, et al.
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Kunskap och gemenskap främjar hälsa
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Ingår i: Nordisk Geriatrik. - Stockholm : Taylor & Francis. - 1403-2082. ; 12:1, s. 26-29
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