Fra ung til voksen kroniker: Hvordan få en myk overgang?
Ungdomsansvarlig ved Oslo universitetssykehus har flere råd til sykepleiere som skal lose kronisk syke ungdommer til å bli pasienter på voksenavdelingen.
Ungdomsansvarlig ved Oslo universitetssykehus har flere råd til sykepleiere som skal lose kronisk syke ungdommer til å bli pasienter på voksenavdelingen.
Skrøpelighet er mer utbredt i Norge enn tidligere europeiske studier antydet. Ifølge eksperter er begrepet tabubelagt, så nær sagt ingen vil snakke om det.
30–60 per cent of older adults in hospitals and nursing homes are malnourished. A well-suited screening tool is to detect the persons who are at risk of malnutrition.
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.
Weight is one of the simplest measurements of nutritional status. Nevertheless, a number of personnel in the community nursing services lack knowledge about nutrition and good routines for weighing patients.
Collaborative interdisciplinary meetings may increase the mutual respect between health professionals and provide more knowledge about the patient.
Fatigue, dry mouth and loss of appetite are the most distressing symptoms, according to a screening with the ESAS tool.
They are ever on the alert vis-à-vis their daughter, suffer loneliness and feel that the eating disorder is taking over their home.
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.
Mer kunnskap om symptomer på delirium hos denne sårbare pasientgruppen kan føre til bedre nevrologisk utkomme og hindre unødig testing, gi kortere sykehusopphold og lavere mortalitet.