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Despite staff calling patients prior to the admission date, the proportion who presented for treatment did not increase. Nevertheless, it was a useful exercise for exchanging information and building relations.

When staff in the child health clinic and school health services tell parents that their child is overweight, many feel both a sense of shame and guilt.

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. 

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.

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.

Practice supervisors are of the opinion that the students need specially adapted arrangements for hospital work placements in order to complete their education.

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.

By adopting a new supervision model, nurse managers acquired more positive attitudes towards students and started paying more attention to nursing issues.