Nutritional status assessment – a professional responsibility in community nursing
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
586 hit for Qualitative
Inadequate documentation of nutritional practice in the specialist health service
Many medical records lacked information about nutritional risk, and few patients at nutritional risk were followed up.
Small organisational adjustments can lead to better supervision of clinical practice in intensive care units
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.
How parents react when their child is overweight
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.
High-energy smoothies for patients in nursing homes
Health personnel find that high-energy smoothies do not always have the intended effect. Some patients become obstipated or nauseous, and undernourished patients do not gain weight.
Nurse managers’ importance for the learning environment of student nurses in nursing homes
By adopting a new supervision model, nurse managers acquired more positive attitudes towards students and started paying more attention to nursing issues.
Dying patients in nursing homes: nurses provide “more of everything” and are “left to deal with everything on their own”
Nurses report that the end-of-life nursing care provided in nursing homes calls on staff to provide “more of everything”, and that nurses feel they are “left to deal with everything on their own”. This situation must be taken seriously, organisationally and policywise.
Parenteral nutrition at the end of life
Registered nurses and doctors should base their assessments of whether to stop parenteral nutrition on inter-disciplinary collaboration and competencies, with particular emphasis on experience-based knowledge.
Accept or decline? Nurses and patients as Facebook friends
All the nurses in the study had received friend requests from patients. They had different, and sometimes conflicting, attitudes to contact with patients on Facebook.
Public health nurses make active use of a parental guidance programme in their practice
Public health nurses make active use of the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) in their work to improve the interaction between parents and children.
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