How public health nurses use sources of knowledge
Public health nurses consider themselves to be adept at finding and assessing national guidelines, but feel less proficient at assessing research-based knowledge.
Public health nurses consider themselves to be adept at finding and assessing national guidelines, but feel less proficient at assessing research-based knowledge.
Many municipal in-patient acute care units do not use scoring tools as part of registered nurses’ decision-making basis.
The study suggests that if evidence-based practice is taught systematically, it affects the students' learning outcome.
Practice supervisors are of the opinion that the students need specially adapted arrangements for hospital work placements in order to complete their education.
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.
Inspirational practical training entails peer mentoring by third-year students. This provides a better understanding of the complexity of nursing and the relevance of the profession.
On returning home from their clinical placement in southern Africa, the nursing students missed having someone to share their intense experiences with.
Nurses with Norwegian as their mother tongue use a larger, and more nuanced repertoire in handover reports than those with Norwegian as a second language. However, they document numerical information in almost the same way.
In order to meet the challenges associated with undernutrition in elderly patients who receive home-based nursing care, it is necessary to screen for nutritional status.
Some nurses say nothing about the problem of smell in order to protect the service user. However, the silence of the nurses reinforces shame and loneliness.