Sykepleierne som deltok på kommunikasjonskurset «Fire gode vaner», ble mer bevisst på å stille åpne spørsmål, lytte aktivt og strukturere samtalene med pasientene.

Registered nurses and doctors should base their assessments of whether to stop parenteral nutrition on inter-disciplinary collaboration and competencies, with particular emphasis on experience-based knowledge.

Guidelines that were not regarded as professionally sound, logical and relevant or in keeping with one’s own clinical experiences or feelings were more difficult to follow.

Body temperature was measured differently and the routines were not the same. Provision should be made for a practice ensuring that staff have the necessary equipment and time to prevent inadvertent perioperative hypothermia.

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.

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.