Translation and cultural adaptation of the Attentional Function Index (AFI)
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.
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Health education competence, self-management
A systematic literature review shows that six competence areas play a key role in enabling health personnel to give patients and service users good outcomes from self-management programmes.
Reported competence enhancement from participation in resource nurse cancer and palliative care networks
Participation in cancer and palliative care networks increased the registered nurses’ competence. Staff exchange training schemes and frequent participation in clinical practice days were also highly beneficial.
Forensic nursing in Norwegian sexual assault reception centres
Registered nurses in Norwegian sexual assault reception centres participate in or perform all tasks in the emergency treatment of victims of sexual assault, including forensic tasks.
Surgical nurses lack the time and competence to work in an evidence-based manner
Surgical departments and educational institutions lack an organisational structure and culture that supports evidence-based practice. This may affect patient safety.
The CPOT – a tool for pain assessment for intensive care patients
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
Burden, coping and mental health among the next of kin of people with a substance abuse problem
It can be an enormous burden to be the next of kin of a substance abuser. Health personnel can help the next of kin to find strategies that maintain and improve their mental health.
Native language nurses and second language nurses document information in patient records differently
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.
Student assistants contribute to learning in anatomy, physiology and biochemistry
Student assistants taught the students in small groups and helped them to gain a better understanding of the subject content and inspired them to learn.
Parents’ experiences of having an adult daughter with an eating disorder
They are ever on the alert vis-à-vis their daughter, suffer loneliness and feel that the eating disorder is taking over their home.
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