How parents react when their child is overweight
When staff in the child health clinic and school health services tell parents that their child is overweight, many feel both a sense of shame and guilt.
When staff in the child health clinic and school health services tell parents that their child is overweight, many feel both a sense of shame and guilt.
They observe eye contact, comforting and other behaviours based on experience rather than by making use of recognised instruments. Their assessments are influenced by professional development opportunities, a heavy workload and interdisciplinary collaboration.
When ESAS is routinely used to map symptoms, the patients experience greater symptom relief and a better quality of life. However, not everyone uses the tool systematically.
Family caregivers will need correct and relevant information and support from health care professionals to perform the significant caring role they have to take on.
Public health nurses make active use of the International Child Development Programme (ICDP) in their work to improve the interaction between parents and children.
Nurses’ psychosocial challenges are transformed into something private and personal instead of being solved at an overarching level in the organisation.
Different perspectives on what to prioritise, characterise the cooperation.
Simulation-based team training improves quality of patient care, but the training should be a planned activity.
Recruitment to the Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme seems to be somewhat random and ‘the main concern is to get the patients on the list’. Health professionals should communicate better among themselves and prepare guidelines for recruitment.
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.