The purpose of reporting adverse incidents is not to point to scapegoats, but to increase patient safety.  Nevertheless, many professionals fail to report unwanted incidents, a study shows.

Norwegian health care personnel find the systematic follow-up of care pathways and the collaboration with the primary health service to be poorer than other organizational areas.

Video communication technology used in the context of reablement / telerehabilitation can facilitate access to nursing staff in a municipality, and enable users to stay at home longer.

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. 

The patient’s experience of breathlessness often do not correspond with the seriousness of the condition.

Intensive care patients often suffer from undertreated pain. A pain assessment tool in a Norwegian version may increase the quality of patient treatment.

Surgical departments and educational institutions lack an organisational structure and culture that supports evidence-based practice. This may affect patient safety.

Nurses with Norwegian as their mother tongue use a larger, and more nuanced repertoire in handover reports than those with Norwegian as a second language. However, they document numerical information in almost the same way.