Perceptions of postnatal care after emergency caesarean sections
Women who had given birth by caesarean section often downplayed their own complaints, felt left to their own devices and received invaluable assistance from their partner.
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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.
Routine screening for postpartum depression puts mental health on the agenda
When public health nurses use the EPDS screening tool in addition to their gut feeling and clinical judgment, they identify more mothers who need help.
Nurses are better equipped for evidence-based practice following postgraduate study
Nurses are better at using their professional knowledge and applying research in their work following postgraduate study in evidence-based practice (EBP). Their belief in the value of such work also increases.
How nurses and service users deal with malodour in the home
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.
Effects of de-escalation training on student nurses' skills and confidence
De-escalation training improved students’ de-escalation skills and boosted their confidence in coping with patient aggression.
Health care personnel’s experiences with suicide risk in older adults living at home
They should be on the lookout for risk factors such as functional impairment, loneliness, changing roles and the feeling of being a burden.
Parents’ experiences of having an adult daughter with an eating disorder
They are ever on the alert vis-à-vis their daughter, suffer loneliness and feel that the eating disorder is taking over their home.
Intranasal dexmedetomidine is of benefit as paediatric premedication – from the perspective of anaestetic nurses
Anaesthetic nurses found that the children were easier to wake preoperatively and that their awakenings were calmer and less painful.
Nurse managers’ importance for the learning environment of student nurses in nursing homes
By adopting a new supervision model, nurse managers acquired more positive attitudes towards students and started paying more attention to nursing issues.
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