Nutritional status assessment – a professional responsibility in community nursing
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
It is challenging for community nurses to screen their patients’ nutritional risk because the guidelines fail to take sufficient account of the domestic arena.
The ALERT training programme raised the competence level of healthcare personnel in the municipal health service and is likely to have increased their job satisfaction.
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.
Most community-dwelling older adults had a high function level. However, those with mild cognitive impairment had a significantly poorer grip strength and slower walking speed, and had taken fewer steps.
Although there are procedures for medication reconciliation, the process is challenging to implement and the allocation of responsibility is unclear.
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?
Mennesker med utviklingshemming får ikke de samme helsetjenester som andre, inkludert palliativ omsorg. Artikkelen beskriver hva som kjennetegner denne pasientgruppen, og hvilke tjenester de har behov for.
Et viktig funn i studien er at sykepleierne benytter få hjelpemidler for å vurdere smerter hos pasientne.
Artikkelen viser at depressive symptomer og grad av funksjonssvikt påvirker livskvalitet hos personer med demens.
Studien indikerer behov for å øke helsepersonells kunnskaper om smertebehandling av rusmisbrukere innlagt i sykehus.