Use of scoring tools in municipal in-patient acute care services – a cross-sectional study
Many municipal in-patient acute care units do not use scoring tools as part of registered nurses’ decision-making basis.
Many municipal in-patient acute care units do not use scoring tools as part of registered nurses’ decision-making basis.
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.
Nurses can experience moral stress and feel a sense of shame when they are torn between a patient’s needs and the requirements of the treatment system. Ethical reflection in supervision can help.
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.
In the last twenty years, PhD theses in nursing science at the University of Oslo (UiO) have changed in terms of methodology, authorship and theoretical approach. Has the research become less patient-centred and patient-oriented?
Anaesthesiology and intensive care nursing are regarded as practice-oriented professions. Can a master’s degree provide an equally high level of skill and theoretical knowledge as specialist training?
Only 7 out of 20 PEHA skills were regularly applied in relevant patient situations in clinical training.
Restraint is used to safeguard the child’s best interests when performing procedures and administering medications, generally in children below the age of four.
The out-of-hours doctor did not receive formal patient information in at least half of the doctor’s visits to nursing homes in Oslo. This may subject the patients to inappropriate treatment and unnecessary hospitalisation.
A large proportion of the residents at nursing homes did not receive a medication review when they were admitted, despite this being a statutory requirement.