Viitala, Anu Åstedt-Kurki, Päivi Lehto, Juho T Palonen, Mira
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Knowledge of the experiences of coping in patients with incurable cancer is essential for high-quality palliative and end-of-life care. To describe the coping experiences of patients with incurable cancer in hospice care to better develop patient-centred care. The data for this qualitative study were collected through semi structured interviews, wi...
Gamst-Jensen, Hejdi Trondarson, Tordis Kallemose, Thomas Poulsen, Ingrid
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
To assess the agreement between patients' self-reported degree-of-worry (DOW) and nurses' evaluation of patients' DOW. An observational cohort study with patients and their primary nurses. Between 22 February and 27 March 2021, data collection among patients and their nurses in an emergency department was carried out. Patients ≥18 years, cognitivel...
Ślusarska, Barbara Marcinowicz, Ludmiła Blaževičienė, Aurelija
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Cultural competencies are known as a multidimensionalconstruct; however, they usually refer to an individual's sensitivity orcultural attitudes, cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. The aim of the study was to compare the cultural competences of nurses in Poland and Lithuania based on an adaptation of the Nurse Cultural Competence Scale (NCCS...
Madsen, Ulla Riis Biesbjerg, Christian Bach Mikkelsen, Tina Broby Marsaa, Kristoffer Olsen Zwisler, Ann-Dorthe Vedste Aagaard, Thomas
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Equal access to healthcare is a fundamental principle in the fully tax-financed Danish healthcare system. This study reveals whether this system lives up to the principle of equal access when it comes to the rehabilitation of patients who have major lower extremity amputations. With the aim of exploring possible inequality in rehabilitation for pat...
Lindberg, Catharina Fock, Jenni Nilsen, Per Schildmeijer, Kristina
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
The international development of health care, an ageing population and rapid technical development mean that more care is being performed in patient homes. This care environment is often unpredictable and involves both formal and informal caregivers, making it potentially unsafe. There is sparse knowledge about how patient safety is protected in ho...
Lauridsen, Henrik Hein Mau, Martin Midtiby, Stig Linnemann Dröes, Rose-Marie Ettema, Teake Kristensen, Hanne Kaae
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
QUALIDEM is a dementia-specific QoL instrument that allows a proxy-based Quality of Life rating in all stages of dementia. It was originally developed in The Netherlands and has later been translated into English and German. This study endeavoured to translate, cross-culturally adapt and test important psychometric properties of a Danish version in...
Høgmo, Bente Kristin Bondas, Terese Alstveit, Marit
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
To describe mothers' and fathers' experiences with public health nursing and child and family health centre services in the postnatal period, both as a couple and as individuals. A phenomenological reflective lifeworld research approach with a descriptive design was chosen. A purposive sample of 10 mothers and 10 fathers were interviewed twice, 1-2...
Puustinen, Jonna Kangasniemi, Mari Pasanen, Miko Turjamaa, Riitta
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Comprehensive care and service planning in home care is tailored to older people's individual needs and resources in order to support them living at home. However, little is known about how these individual resources and home-care-specific tasks are recognised in older people's care and service plans. To describe the content of care and service pla...
Dehn, Pernille Munch Simonsen, Susan Olesen, Mette Linnet
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
The aim of the study was to investigate nurses' skill acquisition in Guided Self-Determination according to the Dreyfus model of skill acquisition and Patricia Benner's studies based on the same model. Globally, person-centred care is acknowledged as an essential aspect of quality in health care. To succeed with person-centred care methods and skil...
Feldt, Amanda Köhler, Anita Kärner Bergstrand, Sara
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Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
Continuous positive airway pressure is a non-invasive therapy beneficial for patients with acute respiratory failure. The need for this therapy outside intensive care units is growing, but nurses face many challenges to enable this therapy in general medical wards. The aim of the study was to explore nurses' strategies for enabling continuous posit...
