Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate relatives opinions of information, interaction, support, participation and care at a hospice unit. The aim was also to investigate whether there was a difference between women and men.Method: The study is a descriptive quantitative cross-sectional study. A questionnaire with closed and open-end questions was sent out to 66 relatives to patients who had died at the hospice unit. The closed questions were analyzed with SPSS. A content analyze was used for the open-end questions.Results: The most of the relatives were fully pleased with information, interaction, support and care.

English title: "Motivated system technician wanted" A study of the relationship between two parts in job advertisements". The purpose of this study is to describe the linguistics of job advertisements. The focus is on discursive practice and how the relation between employer and the proposed employee is created through the process of communication in job advertisements. The method concists of two parts: A critical discourse analysis using the three dimensional model for critical discourse analysis by Fairclough and a text analysis inspired by Hellspong & Ledin. 40 job advertisements were examined and the analysis revealed that the majority belongs to the category traditional job advertisement and a minority uses more than one discourse.

According to the statistics, the number of older inmates in prison is increasing, and the care needs for this group are relatively unexplored. The purpose was to study prison officer?s perceptions of older inmates and their care needs. The study was based on a qualitative approach in which prison officers at one prison were interviewed. The interviews were analyzed based on earlier research and from a social constructionist perspective.

After World War II a rapid expansion of the Swedish health care took place. Theexpansion was realised chiefly as a development of the hospitals and was bothproduced and financed mainly within the public sector. The financing consisted to ahigh degree of government grants from the state to the county councils.During the period for this examination (1945-1955) the public responsibility for thehealth care was expanded. This was expressed in the publicly financed system forhealth insurance and the cut down in the charges that the patients had to pay for thehospital care. These changes led to some discussions on the national level but reformscould on the whole, with exception for the suggested reform of the open health care,be implemented.This case-study performed on the county council in Värmland shows that the degreeof consensus was enhanced on the regional level.

We choose to revise the need of dental care in horses. How important is the dental care for our horse´s use and for their health? The objective of this work was to see if there is a difference between Swedish veterinaries and educated horse dentists opinion concerning horse dental care. As horse owners, we have experienced that there is a conflict between the opinions of these two occupational groups. Some veterinarians say that there is a tendency to use to much treatments or instruments in horses mouths, while some horse dentists says that there is not enough treatments done in horses´ mouths.

Our population are ageing. As this happens more people will be in need of long term care facilities. We now know that some elderly people with certain background factors are more likely to be injured or sick. One of the four biggest background factors is fall propensity. Most of the reported falls come from long term care facilities, approximately 60 % of the care takers in long term care facilities fall one time or more each year.

Background: Domestic violence is a major social problem both nationally and internationally. Around the world 35% of the women say that they have experienced physical and/or sexual violence. In most cases it is the woman's partner who subjected her to violence. Every year, 12,000 -14,000 women in Sweden seek medical help as a result of injury incurred of domestic violence. The healthcare in Sweden has a responsibility when it comes to detecting, treating and documenting, but also to prevent violence and its consequences.Aim: To examine the extent to which nurses and midwives asking women about domestic violence, barriers for asking the question and making visible steps to increase the ability to ask the question.Method: A literature review, were included articles reviewed and quality determined.

Background: Contracting asexually transmitted disease is strongly associated with stigmaand shame. Stigma associated with these diseases has a significant impact on self-image andpropensityto seek care. Despitehigh incidencethere is a generallack of awareness about therisks and theeffectsthatthese diseases have on both mental and physical health. Health carepersonnel are experiencing difficulties to meet and care for these patients. Aim: The aim ofthis studyisto describe patients'experiences of health care after they were diagnosed with asexually transmitted disease.

Bakgrund: En intensivvårdsavdelning [IVA] avsedd för barn kan saknas på ett mindre sjukhus, vilket gör att många barn vårdas på allmän IVA tillsammans med vuxna patienter. År 2012 vårdades 2709 barn i Sverige mellan 0-18 år, på en allmän IVA. Det finns stora skillnader mellan att vårda barn och vuxna, sjuksköterskor som arbetar på en allmän IVA kan sakna de kunskaper som krävs för att vårda barn.Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva intensivvårdssjuksköterskors upplevelser av att vårda barn på en allmän IVA.Metod: Fyra fokusgruppdiskussioner med totalt 13 deltagare genomfördes. Data analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys och resulterade i åtta kategorier och ett tema. Studien genomfördes på ett mindre sjukhus i mellersta Sverige.Resultat: De kategorier som framkom var; en känslomässig utmaning, behov av kontroll och behov av samarbete och stöd.

Intensivvården är idag en högteknologisk avdelning och den miljön som råder där kan vara skrämmande för så väl den sjuke personen som de närstående. Att vara närstående till någon som blivit akut kritiskt sjuk innebär en osäkerhet om framtiden och beskrivs som känslan av att pendla mellan hopp och förtvivlan. För personen som är akut, svårt sjuk har de närstående stor betydelse. Den närstående kan hjälpa till genom att finnas där och vara ett stöd och samtidigt skydda den svårt sjuke personens integritet. Fokus inom intensivvården har alltid legat på den svårt sjuke men på senare tid har vårdpersonalen börjat se de närstående som en integrerad del i den läkande processen och vården kring patienten.

Intensivvården är idag en högteknologisk avdelning och den miljön som råder där kan vara skrämmande för så väl den sjuke personen som de närstående. Att vara närstående till någon som blivit akut kritiskt sjuk innebär en osäkerhet om framtiden och beskrivs som känslan av att pendla mellan hopp och förtvivlan. För personen som är akut, svårt sjuk har de närstående stor betydelse. Den närstående kan hjälpa till genom att finnas där och vara ett stöd och samtidigt skydda den svårt sjuke personens integritet. Fokus inom intensivvården har alltid legat på den svårt sjuke men på senare tid har vårdpersonalen börjat se de närstående som en integrerad del i den läkande processen och vården kring patienten.

The purpose of the study is to expose how the US newspaper New York Times and the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter mediate the war in Afghanistan. Furthermore a comparison is done to map out possible differences and similarities. To fulfill the purpose of the study a critical discourse analysis has been used. The results have shown both differences and similarities between the newspapers. The main conclusions are tendencies of correspondence with previous research and theoretical base, such as the furtherance of elite sources, the promotion of the national political agenda and the national identity and an obvious construction of us and them..

Ett ökande antal palliativa patienter med cancerdiagnos väljer att vårdas hemma den sista tiden i livet. Den palliativa vården ställer speciella krav på distriktsköterskan som ska vara professionell i en annan persons hem. Syftet var att beskriva distriktsköterskans erfarenheter av den palliativa vården i hemmet. Litteraturstudie baserad på 11 kvalitativa artiklar. Distriktsköterskan anser att det viktigaste är att skapa trygghet och en god relation med patienten och dess familj för att den palliativa vården ska fungera. Distriktsköterskan känner att de fyller en stor funktion och det positiva med arbetet är att de är självständiga. För att bibehålla kompetensen behövs det utbildning inom den palliativa vården. Distriktsköterskans huvuduppgift med den palliativa vården är att se till att patienten får så god livskvalité som det är möjligt den sista tiden i livet. Vid vården i hemmet blir även familjen involverad.

The purpose of this thesis was to study descriptions of companies on their webpages on the Internet. This was performed from a socialconstructionist point of view with focus being on subject positionings and gender. A critical discourse analysis was carried out on two texts from the webpages of two organizations on the Internet. Using the three dimensional model for critical discourse analysis by Fairclough, the discourses and subject positionings that the texts included could be revealed. The purpose of this thesis was also to point out the importance of the use of language in recruiting personnel and to hopefully encourage organizations to put effort into text production to avoid discrimination.

Toothbrushing is the best available method in remaining or restore dental health in dogs. This report treats different aspects about toothbrushing and other dental home care treatments in dogs. Questions like why the dog?s teeth should be brushed, what effects toothbrushing have on dental health and how the teeth can be brushed are treated. Furthermore complements to toothbrushing are treated, the options and their effects.