Managers’ views on the need for advanced nursing competence in the changing home nursing service
Seriously ill patients require more medical-technical assistance and care. More nurses should have the opportunity to study Advanced Clinical Practice.
Seriously ill patients require more medical-technical assistance and care. More nurses should have the opportunity to study Advanced Clinical Practice.
Course participants learn to shift their attention from disease to health, from a critical to an accepting attitude about themselves, and from despair to hope and belief in their own ability to cope.
The experiences gained during a student exchange in Tanzania have subsequently had a major impact on the nurses’ personal and professional development.
Although there are procedures for medication reconciliation, the process is challenging to implement and the allocation of responsibility is unclear.
Following the introduction of the Coordination Reform, nurses employed by the municipal health service have had to deal with a growing number of complex, patient-focused tasks. The need for professional development is considerable, but there is no overall strategy in place.
Inadequate post-stroke follow-up of dental health led to reduced oral health and loss of teeth. Better interdisciplinary follow-up could probably have prevented it.
They wanted clear guidelines and procedures and felt forced to digitise their work.
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.
Normalisation Process Theory can be used to assess the prerequisites for ensuring that a new intervention becomes established practice.
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.