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.
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A daughter’s experience when her mother is struck by dementia
Healthcare personnel who interact with patients and their families can learn from the families’ experiences when a loved one is affected by dementia.
Mobile app as a fetal monitoring aid – a pilot study
Many midwives do not feel confident in using fetal stethoscopes. A mobile app that displays the heart rate makes them feel more confident when it is used together with the stethoscope.
Practice supervision of minority language nursing students requires more time and adaptation
Practice supervisors are of the opinion that the students need specially adapted arrangements for hospital work placements in order to complete their education.
Healthcare personnel’s recognition of people with hydrocephalus affects their self-esteem
While the illness is potentially life-threatening, it is invisible and not well known. Consequently, patients may be mistrusted and ignored, and they may feel inferior, vulnerable and insecure.
Fathers want to play a more active role in pregnancy and maternity care and at the child health centre
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.
The role of close relatives in the allocation of long-term nursing home beds
Close relatives help patients to live at home longer and are an important resource for the welfare state. But they can also contribute to an unfair allocation of nursing home beds by advocating for their own family members.
Family rooms in neonatal ICUs – registered nurses’ experiences
The organisational form results in RNs working in greater isolation, and this may mean that their professional competence stagnates. The parents become the experts on the child – not the RNs.
Parenteral nutrition at the end of life
Registered nurses and doctors should base their assessments of whether to stop parenteral nutrition on inter-disciplinary collaboration and competencies, with particular emphasis on experience-based knowledge.
Hypothermia in surgical patients on admission to a postoperative ICU
Too many patients had hypothermia both on admission, and one hour after admission, to a postoperative intensive care unit. Elderly patients and those who had undergone laparoscopic surgery were particularly at risk.
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