Factors associated with post-stroke fatigue
When nurses and healthcare personnel are able to identify which patients are particularly at risk of post-stroke fatigue, patients can be given the appropriate follow-up at the right time.
When nurses and healthcare personnel are able to identify which patients are particularly at risk of post-stroke fatigue, patients can be given the appropriate follow-up at the right time.
Women who had given birth by caesarean section often downplayed their own complaints, felt left to their own devices and received invaluable assistance from their partner.
While the illness is potentially life-threatening, it is invisible and not well known. Consequently, patients may be mistrusted and ignored, and they may feel inferior, vulnerable and insecure.
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.
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.
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.
The organisational form results in RNs working in greater isolation, and this may mean that their professional competence stagnates. The parents become the experts on the child – not the RNs.
Women who have experienced sexual coercion have normally been subjected to other forms of violence, such as acts of dominance and isolation, or emotional, verbal or physical abuse.
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.
People with genetic aortopathies should be given information on their diagnosis and support to find safe, enjoyable activities. Many also need psychosocial support.