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- Fagerberg, Ingegerd, 1950-, et al.
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Hästen och hunden i människovården
- 2014
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Ingår i: Vårdmiljöns betydelse. - Lund : Studentlitteratur AB. - 9789144102573 ; , s. 255-274
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- Holmberg, Mats, 1976-, et al.
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To surrender in dependence of another : The relationship with the ambulance clinicians as experienced by patients.
- 2014
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. - : Wiley. - 0283-9318 .- 1471-6712. ; 28:3, s. 544-551
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Historically, the ambulance care has focused on acute transports and medical treatment, although ambulance care has also been reported as complex, encompassing more than just medical treatment and transports. Previous studies, on ambulance clinicians, have pointed out the importance of interpersonal caring activities complementary to the medical treatment. Those activities can be understood as taking part in the relationship between patients and ambulance clinicians, earlier described as essential and a core component of care. The aim of this study was to elucidate the meaning of the relationship with the ambulance clinicians as experienced by patients. Twenty ambulance patients were interviewed in the study. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed with a phenomenological hermeneutical method to grasp meanings in the patients' experiences. The regional ethical committee approved the study. In the result emerged one main theme: To surrender in dependence of another. The main theme includes four themes: Being in the hands of another, Being in a caring temporary presence, Being important while involved and Being powerless while insignificant, and the themes comprise eleven subthemes. The main theme meant to have no other option than to surrender and to put their life into the hand of another. This surrender also meant to adapt to the clinicians' views even if not shared. This is experienced as excessive care. Summarised, the patients' experiences were both positive and negative and the findings provide a complex understanding of the relationship between the patient and the ambulance clinicians. Overall, the relationship embraces the whole person without reducing the patient to be a recipient of an objectified ambulance care.
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- Kneck, Åsa, et al.
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Living with diabetes : development of learning patterns over a 3-year period
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being. - : CoAction Publishing. - 1748-2623 .- 1748-2631. ; 9, s. 24375-
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND: Learning involves acquiring new knowledge and skills, and changing our ways of thinking, acting, and feeling. Learning in relation to living with diabetes is a lifelong process where there is limited knowledge of how it is experienced and established over time. It was considered important to explore how learning was developed over time for persons living with diabetes. AIM: The aim of the study was to identify patterns in learning when living with diabetes, from recently being diagnosed, and over a 3-year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A longitudinal qualitative descriptive design was used. Thirteen participants, with both type I and type II diabetes, were interviewed at three different occasions during a 3-year period. Qualitative content analysis was used in different steps in order to distinguish patterns. FINDINGS: Five main patterns of learning were identified. Two of the patterns (I and II) were characterized by gradually becoming comfortable living with diabetes, whereas for one pattern (IV) living with diabetes became gradually more difficult. For pattern V living with diabetes was making only a limited impact on life, whereas for Pattern III there was a constant management of obstacles related to illness. The different patterns in the present study showed common and different ways of learning and using different learning strategies at different timespans. CONCLUSION: The present study showed that duration of illness is not of importance for how far a person has come in his own learning process. A person-centered care is needed to meet the different and changing needs of persons living with diabetes in relation to learning to live with a lifelong illness.
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- Kydd, Angela, et al.
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Attitudes of Nurses, and student nurses towards working with older people and to gerontological nursing as a carrer in Germany, Scotland, Slovenia, Sweden, Japan and the United States
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Nursing Education. ; 6:2, s. 183-190
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim: To describe attitudes towards caring for older people among nurses and student nurses in sixparticipating countries.Background: Working with older people has historically had a negative profile and with a global risein the numbers of older people and a global shortage of nurses, it is essential to recruit nurses intothis area. This study gathered data from six countries to explore nurses and student nurses attitudesto nursing older people and to gerontological nursing as a career.Method: A convenience sample of 1064 nursing students and 2585 nurses in six countries answeredthe Multifactorial Attitudes Questionnaire (MAQ) designed to elicit attitudes towards caring forolder people and to the esteem that comes with working in this field. The MAQ consists of sevenpositive and 13 negative statements and uses a Likert scale. A higher total score indicates a morepositive attitude.Results: Differences in attitudes among the six counties was observed for both nursing students andfor nurses (<.001). Nursing students in Scotland and USA had the highest mean scores and Sloveniaand Sweden were the countries with the lowest mean score. The highest score for nurses were reportedin Scotland and Sweden and lowest in Germany and Japan.Conclusion: From the findings, it is suggested that formal nursing education to students between 18- 29 years of age has high importance for positive attitudes towards working with older people.
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- Kydd, Angela, et al.
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Attitudes towards caring for older people in Scotland, Sweden and the United States
- 2014
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Ingår i: Nursing Older People. - : RCNi. - 1472-0795 .- 2047-8941. ; 26:2, s. 33-40
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Aim To explore the attitudes of nurses and nursing students in Scotland, Sweden and the US towards working with older people.Method This quantitative study used the 20-item Multifactorial Attitudes Questionnaire (MAQ) to elicit attitudes on ageism, resources, working environment, education and professional esteem. Researchers from each country distributed the questionnaires to nursing students and nurses, giving a convenience sample of 1,587 respondents. Data were entered on the Statistical Package for Social Sciences version 18 and merged into one large dataset.Results Scottish participants had the highest (positive) and Swedish participants the lowest mean MAQ score. The Kruskal-Wallis test showed significant differences in mean scores across the countries in 18 of the 20 statements, even when controlling for age and experience.Most participants gave positive responses, but agreed that negative attitudes towards working with older people pervade among peers due to working conditions, poor career prospects and a perceived lack of professional esteem.Conclusion Inspirational educators, excellent clinical placements and increasing the professional esteem of those working with older people are required to promote the specialty as an attractive career option.
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- Swall, Anna, 1977-, et al.
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A therapy dog's impact on daytime activity and night-time sleep for older persons with Alzheimer's disease : a case study
- 2014
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Ingår i: Clinical Nursing Studies. - : Sciedu Press. - 2324-7940 .- 2324-7959. ; 2:4, s. 80-93
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: Animal-Assisted Therapy using dogs have been described as having a calming effect, decrease sundowning and blood-pressure in persons with Alzheimer’s disease. The aim was to investigate how continuous and scheduled visits by a prescribed therapy dog affected daytime and night-time sleep for persons with Alzheimer’s disease.Methods: In this case study, registration of activity and sleep curves was conducted from five persons with moderate to severe Alzheimer’s disease living at a nursing home, over a period of 16 weeks using an Actiwatch. Data was analysed with descriptive statistics.Result: The study shows no clear pattern of effect on individual persons daytime activity and sleep when encounter with a therapy dog, but instead points to a great variety of possible different effects that brings an increased activity at different time points, for example during night-time sleep.Conclusions: Effects from the use of a Animal-Assisted Therapy with a dog in the care of persons with Alzheimer’s disease needs to be further investigated and analysed from a personcentred view including both daytime and nightime activities.
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