By adopting a new supervision model, nurse managers acquired more positive attitudes towards students and started paying more attention to nursing issues.

Healthcare personnel, the police and the fire and rescue service, as well as voluntary groups, felt that they were supported by management, worked well together and shared a sense of pride in their efforts.

The study’s informants were particularly apprehensive about critical emergencies and unsure how to use medical equipment such as bag valve masks.

At the University of Tromsø, first year students in nursing homes are supervised by final year students in order to strengthen their occupational competence in nursing leadership. 

People with early stage dementia can have different insights into their disease, and their motivation to participate in conversations with therapists can vary. A manual-based intervention can help find a relevant goal for the therapy based on the person’s circumstances.

Nurses can experience moral stress and feel a sense of shame when they are torn between a patient’s needs and the requirements of the treatment system. Ethical reflection in supervision can help.

There is a considerable gap between the health authorities’ recommended minimum norm for school nurse staffing and the actual figures at most schools in Norway.  

For nurses to be able to attend to their patients’ nutritional status in the best possible way, they need a regular nursing home doctor who knows the nutritional wishes and needs of individual patients.