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- Arvidsson, Barbro, et al.
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Effects of process-oriented group supervision as reported by nursing students : a pilot study
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - Köpenhamn : SSN [Sjuksköterskornas samarbete i Norden]. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:1, s. 26-29
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One method to ensure that nursing students are better prepared for their future professional role can be to offer them process-oriented group supervision. The aim of this prospective, longitudinal pilot study was to evaluate the effects of a process-oriented group supervision programme (PGSP) comprising educational, supportive and developmental areas based on reports by nursing students undergoing a 3-year nursing education. The students (N=61) evaluated their experiences of the PGSP by means of a questionnaire, which they filled in after each study year. An independent t-test was conducted to compare the educational, supportive, and developmental areas after the first (2002), second (2003) and third year (2004) as well as over the whole 3-year study period. The result showed no significant difference in scores in the educational area. However, there was a significant increase in the supportive area (p=.03) over the 3-year period, which was especially noticeable during the first year (p=.013). There was also an increase in the developmental area over the 3-year period (p=.021) as well as during the first year (p=.024). Thus, PGSP seems to develop nursing students in their professional identity and personal growth. However, as this was a pilot study, a research implication is to perform a large-scale study over a longer period of time.
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- Barremo, Ann-Sofi, et al.
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Personers upplevelse av att leva med kronisk hjärtsvikt : Systematisk litteraturstudie
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - : SAGE Publications. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:3, s. 34-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Heart failure is a clinical syndrome where the heart is no longer able to maintain adequate blood circulation to the tissue. Many suffer from symptoms difficult to handle such as dyspnoea, fatigue, and physical weakness.Aim: The purpose of the study was to investigate peoples’ experiences of living with congestive heart failure.Method: A systematic literature review was used. Relevant articles were found in the Medline and Cinahl databases. The articles were examined, classified and critically appraised. Twenty articles were included. A qualitative content analysis was used to organize the results.Results: The results are described in three main categories: losses, protecting independences and readjustment. The category ‘losses’ details physical, emotional and social changes that people experience as losses caused by the debilitating symptoms of heart failure. The category ‘protecting independences’ shows the different ways in which people try to keep control over their lives. The category ‘readjustment’ presents how people try to seek a new ‘wholeness’ in life after the changes heart failure have caused by using acceptance, adaptation and finding new meanings.Conclusion: Living with congestive heart failure can be experienced as a synopsis of the «suffering human being» on a continuum, a time axle; from falling ill to seeking a new meaning in life.
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- Bentling, Sonia, 1943-, et al.
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Synligt, osynligt och synliggjort : 10 år i ett Nordiskt nätverk av sjuksköterskeutbildningar
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - Oslo : utgis av Sykepleiernes Samarbeid i Norden (SSN). - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:3, s. 39-41
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The multicultural society has impact on the nursing profession and multicultural aspects of education have impacts on international cooperation. Materials from 10 years in a Nordic network within higher education institutions within nursing was analysed in order to develop cooperation, mobility, curriculum and research. Methods of benchmarking were used in analysing political documents, memorandum, descriptions of the institutions, course programs and reports from teachers and student. The result indicated that the process from planning to realization was unclear, ambitions were higher than outcomes; experiences of mobility were mostly described in terms of personal experiences, enriching and useful, but relations to political goals instituional strategies were invisible. Effects on academic subjects or competence were not reported,nor were they asked for. Weeklong courses with more participants were succesful. However the research method implied new insights in the results: experiences became visible effects beyond an individual level exists, but they had to be named and asked for.
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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
- 2008
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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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- Carlén, Kristina, et al.
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Andlighet i vården : en intervjustudie bland vårdpersonal
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - : Sykepleiernes Samarbeid i Norden (SSN). - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:1, s. 13-17
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Previous research found that spirituality seems difficult to give meaning and to work with in caring. The aim of this interview study was to explore how the nursing staff experienced the spiritual dimension within caring. Data was obtained from ten nursing staff at a Swedish infection department and analyzed with content analyze. The result shows that conditions to discover and to meet spirituality depend on the staff’s ripeness, that self-knowledge affect consciousness about spirituality and in the relationship of care spirituality is visible. The meaning of spirituality is to relate to God and other people, seeking the meaning of life and attitude at fateful occasions. This study shows there is a lot of knowledge released about patients’ spiritual needs only by asking: what do you believe in? The knowledge from this study is usable booth in nursing and in educational settings.
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- Englander, Magnus, et al.
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Appliceringen av den deskriptiva fenomenologiska humanvetenskapliga metoden
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:4, s. 49-51
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this article is to show the application of Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological human scientific method. A brief description is used in order to provide an example of the human scientific process, from data collection to data analysis. First, the data collection is presented, usingthephenomenon of frustration as an example. Some of the sufficient conditions for data gathering is also discussed in this section. Second, the data analysis is explicated. More specifically, the brief example of the phenomenon of frustration was taken through the four steps of Giorgi's human scientific method. The data analysis section accounts for the descriptive nature ofthe method as well as the critical attitude ofthe researcher. In addition, this section also points to the contrast between descriptive phenomenological human science and interpretative based qualitative methods. A brief description of the relation between constituents and structure closes this section. Overall, the implicit purpose of providing this article of the application of Giorgis's method, in the Swedish language, is to make his method more accessible to the graduate as well as to the undergraduate student in the Nordic countries.
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- Finnström, Berit, 1950-, et al.
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Utvärdering av två självskattningsinstrument för smärta bland barn på en akutmottagning
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - Köpenhamn : Sjuksköterskornas samarbete i Norden. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:1, s. 48-50
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this pilot study a faces pain scale (FPS) and the ColouredAnalogue Scale (CAS) were evaluated. The FPS consists of six faces corresponding to a numeric scale of 0 to 10, and the CAS is a modified visual analogue scale from 0 to 10. The aims were to examine if FPS and CAS were considered as equal, valid and applicable in measuring pain in children in an emergency room. To assess concurrent validity, 62 children in an emergency room were asked to mark their current pain on both self-report scales. When construct validity was assessed, a subgroup of children (n=19) was asked to score their pain before and after administered analgesics. All children were asked which scale they preferred. There were no significant differences in the scores between the scales. The correlation between them was 0.64 for children >8 years of age and 0.66 for children 4.5–7 years (p<0.05). Median scores after analgesic administration decreased from 5.8 to 4.2 with CAS (p<0.001) and from 6 to 4 with FPS (p<0.001). Children >8 years preferred CAS, while younger children preferred FPS (p<0.05). Both scales showed concurrent and construct validity in this study group of untrained children in an emergency room.
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- Frejd, Lisa, et al.
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Att bli transplanterad : En studie av patientens upplevelse
- 2008
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Ingår i: Vård i Norden. - Köpenhamn : Sjuksköterskornas samarbete i Norden. - 0107-4083 .- 1890-4238. ; 28:2, s. 14-18
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Transplantation is a well established form of treatment for terminal organs failure. Most patients that undergo this treatment havebeen through a period of severe illness and suffering. In the care of the patient the nurse can ease the suffering.The aim of this study was to describe how patients experience organ transplantation.Methods: Nine kidney transplanted and five liver transplanted patients were interviewed concerning their experience of transplantation.Interviews with semi constructed questions were performed at two occasions during the first month post transplanted. The text was then analyzedwith the qualitative content analysis.Results: After text analysis seven categories and two themes emerged. The themes were – physical suffering and physical well-being. Aftertransplantation the recollection of illness was very strong and despite severe disease trust in the health care and in the careers remained high.Conclusions:It is central that nurses are aware of that process – to go from a life threatening illness to an experience of well-being – is slow.If nurses are conscious about this, an opportunity to persist patients trust toward the health care and health careers, is given.
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