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Group-based self-management programmes make it easier to cope with the disease. However, half of all patients decline to participate in such programmes. 

Students who used this framework for communication conveyed more specific observations, gave fewer unfounded opinions, and experienced improvements in teamwork and patient safety.

New reforms and time-consuming tasks such as cleaning, preparing food and poor ICT solutions mean that nurses give less priority to safety measures in connection with medication management.  

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

Public health nurses make active use of the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) in their work to improve the interaction between parents and children.

The patient’s experience of breathlessness often do not correspond with the seriousness of the condition.

Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.

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.

Registered nurses noted a greater number of clinical signs of infection in infants with catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) than in infants without such infections. However, not all observations were documented.