Aims and objectives We will provide insights in the theoretical background and key concepts of a Narrative Care approach, such as narrative cultures, narrative curiosity, narrative co‐composition and narrative reflective practice. Background Care understood as narrative practice underscores the importance of experiences and how these shape identities. Important to the quality of care in institutional ...

Det er nødvendig med en nasjonal samordning for å øke kompetansen og styrke bevisstheten rundt vold og trusler i ambulansetjenesten. Slik koordinering kan sikre enhetlig og kunnskapsbasert utvikling av ambulansetjenesten – til det beste for pasienter og ansatte.

Electronic health record (EHR) suites cover a broad range of cross-sectoral use scenarios. Thereby, they streamline information flows but also require that healthcare professionals with diverse responsibilities must adapt to one and the same system. In the region of Central Norway, the EHR suite from Epic is being implemented at hospitals as well as in municipal healthcare. However, the 64 municipalities ...

Caring conversations are considered essential in psychiatric and mental health nursing. However, some patients are more or less silent and rarely express themselves verbally. This can be challenging for nurses who also need to find ways of communicating with these patients. Therefore, the aim of this study is to describe psychiatric nurses’ lived experiences of communication with patients who rarely ...

<i>Aims</i>: To describe lived experiences of spirituality from the perspective of people who have been subject to inpatient psychiatric care and to interpret these experiences from an understanding of health as dialectical.<p> <p><i>Methods</i>: After approval from a regional ethical board,eleven participants were recruited from two organisations for people with mental health problems. Participants ...

<b><p>Background:</b> The globally dominant treatment with curative intent for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nCRT) with subsequent esophagectomy. This multimodal treatment leads to around 60% overall 5-year survival, yet with impaired postsurgical quality of life. Observational studies indicate that curatively intended chemoradiotherapy, ...

Objective - To investigate neonatal outcomes within 28 days in the subsequent birth in women who gave birth to their first baby by caesarean section (CS).<p> <p>Design and setting - National retrospective population-based register study. A cohort of 94 451 neonates who were born in Sweden between 1999 and 2015 as a second child to a mother who had her first birth by emergency or planned ...

I denne artikkel redegjør vi for et pilotprosjekt knyttet til nettstøttet videreutdanning innen helsefag ved Høgskolen i Finnmark, hvor ulike verktøy i høgskolens elektroniske læringsplattform ble prøvd ut med basis i kooperativ læringsfilosofi, samhandlingslæring. I helse- og sosialfaglig utdanning har det vært motstand mot å ta i bruk nettbaserte verktøy i undervisnings- og læringsprosessen. Det ...

<i>Purpose</i>: Eating disorders (ED) are complex and severe illnesses where evidence-based treatment is needed to recover. However, about half of the patients with ED do not respond to treatments currently available, which call for efforts to expand the portfolio of treatments. The aim of this study was to explore experiences from patients who dropped out of a new treatment for bulimia nervosa and ...

Community health-care services for older, home-dwelling persons with dementia tend to be underutilised. Family care-givers provide substantial care, and they often arrange for and co-ordinate health-care services on behalf of persons with dementia. The aim of this study was to examine family care-givers’ knowledge of unused services and their self-reported reasons for non-use of such services. We ...