Patients’ families in intensive care units in Norway before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
More families had daily access to doctors during the pandemic than before the pandemic. But the nurses were involved in fewer conversations.
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Healthcare personnel as a source of comfort in recurrent ovarian cancer
Women with recurrent ovarian cancer endure their disease by finding solace in the hope of recovery. How can nurses provide consolation?
The home care services carry out extensive laboratory activity
A study shows that most home care services in Nordland, Sogn og Fjordane and Østfold counties perform a wide range of laboratory services.
Do the scales at child health clinics show the correct weight?
Weight measurement provides an indication of the well-being, nutrition and health of children and adolescents. It is therefore important that the scale that is used provides precise measurements.
Mobile app as a fetal monitoring aid – a pilot study
Many midwives do not feel confident in using fetal stethoscopes. A mobile app that displays the heart rate makes them feel more confident when it is used together with the stethoscope.
Encountering parents of a sick newborn child
When nurses encounter parents with a sick newborn child, it is vital that they see them as individuals and establish a relationship based on empathy.
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.
Experiences with mobile intensive care nurses (MICNs)
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?
Registered nurses’ experiences of using ESAS to map cancer patients’ symptoms
When ESAS is routinely used to map symptoms, the patients experience greater symptom relief and a better quality of life. However, not everyone uses the tool systematically.
Pain teams can provide good support to healthcare personnel in the pain relief of opioid-dependent patients
Helath personnel can learn from the pain team when they have pharmacology-related questions and are drawing up treatment plans, and when they are establishing open and trusting relations with the patient.
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