How to ensure safe and appropriate medication management
Nurses, social educators and pharmacists have reached a consensus on 77 standards for best practice in medication management in the nursing and care service.
Nurses, social educators and pharmacists have reached a consensus on 77 standards for best practice in medication management in the nursing and care service.
Different perspectives on what to prioritise, characterise the cooperation.
The instrument measures the collaboration between healthcare personnel and the relatives of frail elderly patients in acute hospital wards. Having a Norwegian version of the instrument will mean it can be used in our clinical practice and research.
Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.
Simulation-based team training improves quality of patient care, but the training should be a planned activity.
Collaborative interdisciplinary meetings may increase the mutual respect between health professionals and provide more knowledge about the patient.
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.
Women who had given birth by caesarean section often downplayed their own complaints, felt left to their own devices and received invaluable assistance from their partner.
Some municipalities gave considerably more prominence to finances and day-to-day operations than safe and secure patient experiences.