Artikkelen viser at en god del kreftpasienter har barrierer mot smertebehandling og belyser årsaker til hvorfor de har det.

Nurses, social educators and pharmacists have reached a consensus on 77 standards for best practice in medication management in the nursing and care service.

Some nurses say nothing about the problem of smell in order to protect the service user. However, the silence of the nurses reinforces shame and loneliness.

Public health nurses consider themselves to be adept at finding and assessing national guidelines, but feel less proficient at assessing research-based knowledge.

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.

With the use of multidose electronic prescriptions, sources of error linked to paper-based solutions have been eradicated. However, it is still challenging to achieve optimal handling of medication.