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.
Healthcare personnel who interact with patients and their families can learn from the families’ experiences when a loved one is affected by dementia.
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.
Patients fail to turn up for their treatment in private institutions if they feel inadequately involved, suffer dwindling motivation or feel pressurised into accepting the treatment.
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.
Course participants learn to shift their attention from disease to health, from a critical to an accepting attitude about themselves, and from despair to hope and belief in their own ability to cope.
At the University of Tromsø, first year students in nursing homes are supervised by final year students in order to strengthen their occupational competence in nursing leadership.
The study suggests that if evidence-based practice is taught systematically, it affects the students' learning outcome.
I dag skal jeg snakke med et barn om at moren snart skal dø. Da jeg søkte jobben som kreftkoordinator, visste jeg ikke hvilket mot som kreves for å utøve yrket.
– Så langt i år har jeg hatt tre fødsler under transport, én på ambulansebåten og to på helsestasjonen, sier jordmor Elisabeth Jørgenvåg.
Ved fallpoliklinikken ved Oslo universitetssykehus snus alle steiner for å holde pasienten på beina. I dag er det en kvinne i 70-årene som skal kartlegges.