Daily life after a kidney-pancreas transplantation
A successful kidney-pancreas transplantation improves and stabilises patients’ daily lives. It also brings with it new elements of uncertainty that are important to convey to the patient.
A successful kidney-pancreas transplantation improves and stabilises patients’ daily lives. It also brings with it new elements of uncertainty that are important to convey to the patient.
When nurses encounter parents with a sick newborn child, it is vital that they see them as individuals and establish a relationship based on empathy.
Many municipal in-patient acute care units do not use scoring tools as part of registered nurses’ decision-making basis.
Public health nurses consider themselves to be adept at finding and assessing national guidelines, but feel less proficient at assessing research-based knowledge.
When ESAS is routinely used to map symptoms, the patients experience greater symptom relief and a better quality of life. However, not everyone uses the tool systematically.
Close relatives help patients to live at home longer and are an important resource for the welfare state. But they can also contribute to an unfair allocation of nursing home beds by advocating for their own family members.
The teaching assistants were second-year students themselves, and used academic competence, social engagement and creative methods. This made it easier for the nursing students to learn complex academic material.
Few midwives followed the recommendations for defining active labour in the electronic medical records. It is uncertain how many women in labour were continuously monitored by a midwife.
The Northern Norway Regional Health Authority has specifically focused over time on enhancing health-related competence and research. This has resulted in a greater number of researchers and research fellows, and an increase in the number of published articles.
The purpose of reporting adverse incidents is not to point to scapegoats, but to increase patient safety. Nevertheless, many professionals fail to report unwanted incidents, a study shows.