Measures to improve nurses’ working environment often target individuals
Nurses’ psychosocial challenges are transformed into something private and personal instead of being solved at an overarching level in the organisation.
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Almost half of patients experience full remission after treatment at a psychiatric clinic
Whether the therapist at the district psychiatric centre was a psychologist, psychiatrist or psychiatric nurse seemed to have little bearing on the outcome.
Routine screening for postpartum depression puts mental health on the agenda
When public health nurses use the EPDS screening tool in addition to their gut feeling and clinical judgment, they identify more mothers who need help.
Service user involvement in mental healthcare coordination
Healthcare personnel can make decisions about the admission basis and treatment needs or hold care coordination meetings with the service user, and the community mental health centre and municipalities can establish accountability or negotiate responsibility, and determine which measures to implement.
Early identification of children who stutter – a survey of assessments made by public health nurses
In order to identify children who need a referral to a speech therapist, public health nurses must pay attention to repetitions, blocks and prolongations in the child’s speech.
Screening for symptoms of depression associated with heart disease
Heart disease increases the risk of depression. How can we best identify depressed cardiac patients?
Is the procedure for stimulating uterine contractions during labour followed? A survey of midwives
The practice differs when midwives use medication to stimulate contractions rather than breast stimulation. Not all midwives classified the CTG or used a checklist for oxytocin stimulation.
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.
Stigmatisation and shame – a qualitative study of living with obesity
Healthcare personnel should treat obese people with openness and without prejudice. By doing so, they can help them develop a resistance to shame.
Urinary tract infection among older patients in the home care services
Differences in the level of knowledge and unreliable equipment make it difficult for health personnel in the home health care services to discover and diagnose urinary tract infection. We need national guidelines for the collection of urine samples and the use of urine dipsticks in the home care services.
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