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.
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The ISBAR tool leads to conscious, structured communication by healthcare personnel
Students who used this framework for communication conveyed more specific observations, gave fewer unfounded opinions, and experienced improvements in teamwork and patient safety.
Diabetes specialist nurses’ experiences when training patients in the use of insulin pump therapy
Diabetes specialist nurses have a strong feeling of responsibility for the patient and find it challenging to keep up to date with all the functions of some of the insulin pumps.
New app can give nutritional support to home-dwelling elderly
The recently developed app APPETITT can inspire to a varied diet and increase the attention to dietary habits for home-dwelling elderly.
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.
Surgical nurses lack the time and competence to work in an evidence-based manner
Surgical departments and educational institutions lack an organisational structure and culture that supports evidence-based practice. This may affect patient safety.
Accept or decline? Nurses and patients as Facebook friends
All the nurses in the study had received friend requests from patients. They had different, and sometimes conflicting, attitudes to contact with patients on Facebook.
Barriers to compliance with guidelines for health personnel in hospital
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.
Ethical reflection and awareness in supervision
Nurses can experience moral stress and feel a sense of shame when they are torn between a patient’s needs and the requirements of the treatment system. Ethical reflection in supervision can help.
Small organisational adjustments can lead to better supervision of clinical practice in intensive care units
Measures such as the ‘getting-to-know-you’ day, the ‘float nurse’ function at an early stage, group meetings and internal training greatly benefitted supervisors and students at Oslo University Hospital.
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