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.
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The contribution of a master’s degree to clinical practice
Anaesthesiology and intensive care nursing are regarded as practice-oriented professions. Can a master’s degree provide an equally high level of skill and theoretical knowledge as specialist training?
Individual care plan at the palliative stage – helping relatives to cope
Establishing an individual care plan at an early stage of palliative care gives relatives hope and support. They also feel seen and their burden of responsibility is lessened.
Experiences with being diagnosed with and treated for testicular cancer
It is an ordeal to be diagnosed with and treated for testicular cancer. Various resources can help patients to handle the difficult situation more easily.
The challenges associated with implementing new practice
Normalisation Process Theory can be used to assess the prerequisites for ensuring that a new intervention becomes established practice.
New form is suitable for assessing clinical nursing education
Both students in clinical nursing education and their preceptors think that the assessment form, which is based on the principles of the AssCE form, can be used as a model to assess the students.
Daily life after a kidney-pancreas transplantation
A successful kidney-pancreas transplantation improves and stabilises patients’ daily lives. It also brings with it new elements of uncertainty that are important to convey to the patient.
What impact did a student exchange have on participating nurses in the longer term?
The experiences gained during a student exchange in Tanzania have subsequently had a major impact on the nurses’ personal and professional development.
The organisation of community nursing services may impact negatively on safety and the quality of care
Some municipalities gave considerably more prominence to finances and day-to-day operations than safe and secure patient experiences.
In the child’s best interest? Making the decision to end life-sustaining treatment
Healthcare personnel found it challenging to judge what was in the child’s best interest. The child’s right to autonomy and involvement was often not heeded, and the child was rarely included in the decision-making process.
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