Home health care services in collaboration with the specialist health care services
Different perspectives on what to prioritise, characterise the cooperation.
Different perspectives on what to prioritise, characterise the cooperation.
A systematic literature review shows that six competence areas play a key role in enabling health personnel to give patients and service users good outcomes from self-management programmes.
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.
Nurses are better at using their professional knowledge and applying research in their work following postgraduate study in evidence-based practice (EBP). Their belief in the value of such work also increases.
The infection control measures may have impacted negatively on the breastfeeding assistance provided for first-time mothers in postnatal facilities. There was also a greater reliance on breast-milk substitutes than normal.
The registered nurses demonstrated a higher level of competence than the nursing associates and healthcare assistants. However, scores were too low in all three groups in response to emergency scenarios.
Guided Self-Determination (GSD) can help improve the counselling skills of registered nurses. It can also encourage patients to reflect on their own communication skills.
A calm atmosphere with single rooms, flexible visiting hours and trust in the healthcare personnel can help the family members to serve as a resource for heart surgery patients with a prolonged stay in intensive care.