How parents react when their child is overweight
When staff in the child health clinic and school health services tell parents that their child is overweight, many feel both a sense of shame and guilt.
When staff in the child health clinic and school health services tell parents that their child is overweight, many feel both a sense of shame and guilt.
Almost 84% of people over the age of 70 used a computer, smartphone or tablet to maintain contact with their friends and social networks. Only 8% used these media to contact healthcare personnel.
Inadequate post-stroke follow-up of dental health led to reduced oral health and loss of teeth. Better interdisciplinary follow-up could probably have prevented it.
Guidelines that were not regarded as professionally sound, logical and relevant or in keeping with one’s own clinical experiences or feelings were more difficult to follow.
The study’s informants were particularly apprehensive about critical emergencies and unsure how to use medical equipment such as bag valve masks.
The father’s role has changed, and fathers have become more active as regards childcare. Nevertheless, they may feel excluded during pregnancy, childbirth and follow-up at the child health centre.
Ensuring a good patient trajectory is difficult. In order to be successful, it is essential that all healthcare professionals involved have a close, trust-based cooperation, also with patients and their families.
It is challenging to treat children in a general intensive care unit intended for adults. Good training, good cooperation, and fulfilling children’s needs are valuable measures.
It can be almost impossible to insert a needle in the case of some patients. Moreover, registered nurses have many work tasks to carry out at the same time in different places, and this can reduce concentration.
A systematic literature review shows that six competence areas play a key role in enabling health personnel to give patients and service users good outcomes from self-management programmes.