De er uforberedt på eksistensielle spørsmål fra sine barn og vet ikke at helsepersonell har plikt til å bidra til at barna får informasjon om sykdommen.

Dokumentasjon av smertevurdering, tiltaksplaner og informasjon fulgte ikke faglige nasjonale råd.

Sykepleierne fikk brukt kompetansen sin bedre, men det ble vanskeligere å yte helhetlig omsorg.

The bereaved felt that they maintained a bond with their deceased family member through diaries that had been kept for the patients during their stay in ICU. The diaries also helped impart structure on a chaotic time and made it easier for the bereaved to vent their feelings.

They are ever on the alert vis-à-vis their daughter, suffer loneliness and feel that the eating disorder is taking over their home.

Healthcare personnel in interdisciplinary teams believed that registered nurses made a distinct and  recognised contribution to the collaborative effort. In particular, they valued the registered nurses’ somatic knowledge and their milieu therapy expertise.

Mothers who engaged with the ‘New families’ home visit programme, had more frequent contact with child health centres. But more than a third of all the mothers reported that they had received inadequate information from public authorities about the child health centre’s services.