Hensikten med denne studien er å måle sykepleierstudenters erfaringer og synspunkter på det kliniske læringsmiljøet og veiledningsrelasjonen i spesialisthelsetjenesten innenfor praksisstudier i henholdsvis medisinske og kirurgiske avdelinger. Det er gjort en tverrsnittstudie av sykepleierstudenters opplevelse av veiledning i klinisk praksis. Studien tar utgangspunkt i en spørreskjemabasert undersøkelse ...

In this article, we aim to contribute to the understanding of how people with mental illness experience hearing voices and sounds that others do not hear in daily life. We conducted in-depth interviews with 14 people and analyzed the interviews using a hermeneutic phenomenological approach. The themes we arrived at included the following: hearing someone else or myself, am I losing my mind?, and ...

Bakgrunn: Formålet med studien er å undersøke helsesøster sine utfordringer i møte med barn og unges psykososiale vansker. Hensikten er å bidra med kunnskap og forståelse vedrørende forebyggende arbeid til barn og unge og hvilke forhold som gjør seg gjeldende innafor et sammensatt og komplekst fagområde. Problemstilling: Hvilke utfordringer møter helsesøster i arbeidet med barn og unges psykososiale ...

Objective: To evaluate an informed shared decisionmaking programme (ISDM-P) for people with type 2 diabetes under high fidelity conditions. <p>Design: Randomised, single-blinded trial with sham control intervention and follow-up of 6 months. <p>Setting: Single-centre diabetes clinic providing care according to the national disease management programme in Germany. <p>Participants: 154 people ...

The point of departure for this article is narrative gerontology’s conceptualization of life as storied and the assumption that identity development and meaning making do not cease at any age, but rather continue throughout life. We suggest that if identity construction is considered to be a lifelong project, narrative gerontology would benefit from applying analytical perspectives focused on ...

Background. Healthcare cost and reforms are at the forefront of international debates. One of the current discussion themes in oncology is whether and how patients’ life changes due to costs of cancer care. In Norway, the main part of the treatment costs is supported by general taxpayer revenues. <p>Objectives. The objective of this study was to clarify whether head and neck cancer patients (n67) ...

As we can see in war areas today, health care systems and especially hospitals can be considered as a safety net for the civilian population. This was also the case of civilian health care institutions, nurses and medical practitioners in the sparsely populated areas in Finnmark and Northern part of Troms during World War II. Nurses are, and were, the largest group of health professionals. Most ...

Background Adequate risk knowledge of patients is a prerequisite for shared decision making but few attempts have been made to develop assessment tools. Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory disease of young adults with an increasing number of partially effective immunotherapies and therefore a paradigmatic disease to study patient involvement. <p>Objective/methods Based on an item ...

The museum of reconstruction for Finnmark and Northern Troms uses personal war memories from childhood and adolescence e.g. in exhibitions, articles and lectures. However, 70-year-old memories are most likely processed and changed over time, and critics often consider memories untrustworthy. Some scholars claim that positive memories stick better than negative memories, while others vice versa. ...