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Health personnel are instructed to register cardiac arrests in The Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry. Still, only one in three patients with cardiac arrest in the intesive care ward is registered.

Nursing home residents are dissatisfied with a sedentary life indoors and reach out more to others socially when they are outdoors. Nevertheless, they have little contact with nature and the outdoor environment. 

Normalisation Process Theory can be used to assess the prerequisites for ensuring that a new intervention becomes established practice.

Deficient documentation of falls may stop the implementation of necessary preventive interventions. The nursing homes in the study are nevertheless failing to comply with their own documentation requirements.

Mobile intensive care nurses are called out to hospital wards when a patient’s condition is showing signs of deterioration. When are they called out, and what measures do they initiate?

Many registered nurses were unaware that generic substitution can only take place using an approved substitution list, or were uncertain how to use the Norwegian Pharmaceutical Compendium correctly.

For nurses to be able to attend to their patients’ nutritional status in the best possible way, they need a regular nursing home doctor who knows the nutritional wishes and needs of individual patients.

Video communication technology used in the context of reablement / telerehabilitation can facilitate access to nursing staff in a municipality, and enable users to stay at home longer.

30–60 per cent of older adults in hospitals and nursing homes are malnourished. A well-suited screening tool is to detect the persons who are at risk of malnutrition.