Measures to improve nurses’ working environment often target individuals
Nurses’ psychosocial challenges are transformed into something private and personal instead of being solved at an overarching level in the organisation.
Nurses’ psychosocial challenges are transformed into something private and personal instead of being solved at an overarching level in the organisation.
Following the introduction of the Coordination Reform, nurses employed by the municipal health service have had to deal with a growing number of complex, patient-focused tasks. The need for professional development is considerable, but there is no overall strategy in place.
Healthcare personnel who interact with patients and their families can learn from the families’ experiences when a loved one is affected by dementia.
A care discourse, aimed at the patient’s needs, was prominent in the evaluation and assessment notes. The treatment plans reflected a problem-focused discourse, where only problems were recorded.
Makten og avmakten som ligger i rollene der legen er ekspert og pasienten hjelpetrengende, påvirker kommunikasjonen og samhandlingen under legevisitten.
Most women in labour with intrapartum fever receive the correct treatment on suspicion of infection. But in 28 per cent of cases, antibiotic therapy is initiated unnecessarily or too early.
The infection control measures may have impacted negatively on the breastfeeding assistance provided for first-time mothers in postnatal facilities. There was also a greater reliance on breast-milk substitutes than normal.
Course participants learn to shift their attention from disease to health, from a critical to an accepting attitude about themselves, and from despair to hope and belief in their own ability to cope.
Some nurses say nothing about the problem of smell in order to protect the service user. However, the silence of the nurses reinforces shame and loneliness.
Patients fail to turn up for their treatment in private institutions if they feel inadequately involved, suffer dwindling motivation or feel pressurised into accepting the treatment.