• "En stein i lomma kan bidra til trøst: En kvalitativ studie av helsesykepleiers bruk av gjenstander i helsedialoger i skolehelsetjenesten» 

      Laholt, Hilde; Clancy, Anne Mary Gerard (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-29)
      Helsesykepleieres mandat er å arbeide helsefremmende og forebyggende basert på retningslinjer for skolehelsetjenesten. Retningslinjene viser at helsedialoger i skolehelsetjenesten kan bidra til sunne helsevalg hos skoleelever. De fleste norske tenåringer rapporterer om god fysisk og psykisk helse. Likevel kan utfordringer tilknyttet ungdomsalderen, være starten på psykiske helseplager inn i voksenlivet. ...
    • Ethical challenges experienced by public health nurses related to adolescents' use of visual technologies 

      Laholt, Hilde; McLeod, Kim; Guillemin, Marilys; Beddari, Ellinor; Lorem, Geir F (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-12)
      <i><p>Background</i>: Visual technologies are central to youth culture and are often the preferred communication means of adolescents. Although these tools can be beneficial in fostering relations, adolescents’ use of visual technologies and social media also raises ethical concerns.</p> <i><p>Aims</i>: We explored how school public health nurses identify and resolve the ethical challenges involved ...
    • How do public health nurses in Norwegian school health services support siblings of children with complex care needs? 

      Bergvoll, Lise-Marie; Fjelldal, Sunniva Solhaug; Clancy, Anne Mary Gerard; Martinussen, Monica; Laholt, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-05-29)
      Aims: There is a paucity of data regarding the care and support provided by Norwegian school health services to siblings of children with complex care needs. Public health nurses are an integral part of these universal services, which focus on health promotion and disease prevention in primary and secondary schools. This study aimed to explore health promotion interventions by public health ...
    • How to use visual methods to promote health among adolescents: A qualitative study of school nursing 

      Laholt, Hilde; Guillemin, Marilys; McLeod, Kim; Beddari, Ellinor; Lorem, Geir F (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-04-17)
      <i>Aims and objectives</i> - Public health nurses attended a 3‐day course to learn the use of visual methods in health dialogue with adolescents. The aim of this study was to explore how to use visual methods to promote health among adolescents in a school nursing context.<p> <p><i>Background</i> - Photovoice is a visualising technique that enables adolescents to participate in health promotion ...
    • Midwives and public health nurses' knowledge and clinical practice in securing sufficient iodine status in relation to pregnancy. A cross-sectional study 

      Johnsen, Maren; Braaten, Tonje Bjørndal; Skeie, Guri; Laholt, Hilde; Hansen, Solrunn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-02-25)
      Aim - To investigate midwives' (MWs) and public health nurses' (PHNs) clinical practice and knowledge related to nutrition, with a particular focus on iodine in northern parts of Norway. Maternal iodine status prior to and during pregnancy, and the lactating period, is crucial for brain development and growth of the foetus and infant, from conception up until the first two years of life. In Norway, ...
    • Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care 

      Nygaard, Anne Mette; Haugdahl, Hege Selnes; Laholt, Hilde; Brinchmann, Berit Støre; Lind, Ranveig (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-24)
      Background: ICU patients’ family members are in a new, uncertain, and vulnerable situation due to the patient’s critical illness and complete dependence on the ICU nurses and physicians. Family members’ feeling of being cared for is closely linked to clinicians’ attitudes and behavior.<p> <p>Aim: To explore ICU nurses’ and physicians’ bedside interaction with critically ill ICU patients´ families ...
    • Public health nurses experiences of ethical responsibility: A meta-ethnography 

      Clancy, Anne Mary Gerard; Hovden, Julia Thuve; Andersen, Runa Anneli; Laholt, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-27)
      Public health nursing is grounded in public health ideologies and fundamental nursing values. Researchers have argued that ethical responsibility from the perspective of the nurse is an understudied phenomenon. This meta-ethnography provides in-depth knowledge of how public health nurses (PHNs) experience ethical responsibility when working to prevent injury and disease, and promote health and ...
    • Public health nursing in Ireland and Norway: A comparative analysis 

      Mulcahy, Helen; Leahy-Warren, Patricia; Laholt, Hilde; Philpott, Lloyd Frank; Bergvoll, Lise-Marie; Clancy, Anne (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-12-23)
      <p<i>Background:</i> Public health, primary healthcare, and nursing are founding principles of public health nursing. Thus, the underpinning curriculum needs to reflect these core principles. Public health nursing educators sought to delve deeper into curricula and training of public health nurse (PHNs)in Ireland and Norway. <p><i>Objective:</i> To compare PHNs’ educational training in Ireland and ...
    • Trøstens stille stemme i helsesykepleiekonsultasjoner 

      Clancy, Anne Mary Gerard; Laholt, Hilde (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-12-13)
      Å gi trøst er en integrert del av sykepleie, og å få trøst er et grunnleggende menneskelig behov. I dette vitenskapelige essayet ser vi nærmere på hvordan fenomenet trøst kommer til uttrykk i norsk helsesykepleiepraksis. Helsesykepleiere i Norge yter ikke pleietjenester, men tilbyr helsefremmende og forebyggende helsetjenester til barn og unge mellom 0 og 20 år. Deres omsorgspraksis har blitt beskrevet ...
    • Visual methods in health dialogue and public health work. An action research approach to improve school nurses’ work with adolescents 

      Laholt, Hilde (Doctoral thesis; Doktorgradsavhandling, 2020-01-29)
      School nursing involves relationships and understandings based on young people’s needs. Visual technologies have become a central part of young people’s life and context: they use their phones to communicate and shape their relationships and they turn to social media when inquiring about health issues. Visual methods in health communication thus draw on existing practices, and are well documented ...