Background: The speech- and language deficit aphasia affects 12 000 persons annually in Sweden. Aphasia is caused by injury in the brain and the most common etiology is stroke. According to the tool for describing and assessing aphasia, A-FROM (Kagan et al., 2008), the four following aspects of aphasia need to be considered: severity of aphasia, participation in life situations, communication and language environment and personal factors. Several different interventions and treatments can be performed in every domain. There is scientific evidence for interventions performed by speech and language pathologists; however, the question is yet being discussed since results are unambiguous.Purpose: The main purpose of this study is to investigate which aphasia interventions performed by speech and language pathologists that are supported by evidence.

En upprörd patient sitter i väntrummet på en akutmottagning. Patienten har väntat på vård i flera timmar och äntligen kommer en sjuksköterska in. Patienten reser sig upp och bereder sig på att följa med. Tyvärr utropar sjuksköterskan någon annans namn och den väntande patienten frågar undrande: ?Ursäkta, när är det min tur?? Problem:Vi anser att det finns problem i arbetsprocessen på akutmottagningen som orsakar att patienten får vänta onödigt länge.

ABSTRACTIntroduction: An increasing number of patients undergo surgery under local anesthesia and are thereforeawake during the procedure. Nursing care that is provided to these patients can differ from those thatreceive general anesthesia. Previous research has focused on patients? general experiences of being awakeintraoperative. But there is no research that focuses on patients perceptions of security.

 The aim of the study was auditing medical records examine postoperative blood glucose levels after undergoing CABG surgery. Furthermore the aim was to determine if the ward staff abides the local guidelines frame of reference concerning each ward, regarding blood glucose measurements and blood glucose levels. The study included 70 patients undergoing CABG surgery at the cardiothoracic surgery, Uppsala University Hospital. The study was conducted by retrospective medical record auditing. Studied factors were postoperative blood glucose levels, number of registered blood glucose measurements, a current diagnosis of DM and preoperative HbA1c.

Background: The parent has a natural presence in today?s child health care and Hospital treatment. The transition from home to a care institution has an impact on the parent. Previous research shows that over time the conditions and the parent?s role in child and youth health care have changed extensively.

Background Swedish nurses are required by law to document nursing care. Studies have proved scarce in nursing documentation with regard to written language, the nursing process and the nurse´s caring perspective. Educating nurses in using the VIPS model have improved nursing documentation. Few studies have included nursing documentation of psychiatric care.Aim The aim of this study was to describe nursing documentation within psychiatric care of inpatient settings.Method A quantitative, retrospective descriptive research design was applied. A total of 60 nursing journals from a psychiatric department of six wards were studied.

Introduction: To become acute ill and to be forced to seek treatment involves a difficult but also a vulnerable time for the individual. This acquires a good relationship between the nurse and the patient. At a surgical emergency ward patients with different diagnoses and trauma are treated. What distinguishes this specific type of ward is that care often occurs in a rapid rate and as a patient the environment may be experienced as stressed. The relationship with the nurse at the ward establishes a foundation for how the patient experiences the health care.

Bakgrund: Riktlinjer för sjuksköterskor säger att patientens integritet skall bevaras och att alla patienter skall mötas värdigt, oberoende av sin sjukdom. Det första mötet är viktigt i relationen mellan sjuksköterskan och patienten. Enligt omvårdnadsteoretikern Joyce Travelbee läggs de grundläggande förutsättningarna för den framtida relationen i detta möte och därför är det viktigt att frigöra sig från eventuella förutfattade meningar gentemot patienter. Stigmatisering gentemot psykiskt sjuka patienter förekommer bland allmänheten. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att vårda patienter med psykisk sjukdom på allmänsjukhus.

Background: High demands are today placed upon Swedish elderly care nurses as more elderly live with multimorbidity while the Hospital bed capacity is becoming lower. Aim: The aim of the study was to explore nurses? perception of decision-making in situations with acutely ill patients in nursing homes and which factors may influence the decision about transferring patients to the emergency department or not. Method: This is a qualitative study with a phenomenographic approach. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted with 11 nurses working in nursing homes. The data analysis was based on Dahlgren and Fallsberg (1991) data analysis. Result: Three different description categories were presented, which describes variations of the nurses? perceptions.Feeling comfortable in making the decision; which involved the nurses feeling confident in the decision-making about transferring patients to the emergency department or not.Hesitant in making the decision; which described how nurses perceived the decision-making as problematic, with regard to transferring patients to the emergency department.Many wishes to consider in taking the decision; which explained how nurses? decision-making was influenced by requests from the patients or from people close to them.Conclusion:  The study reflected how  supporting and aggravating factors could influence how nurses in nursing homes perceived the decision-making and how nurses have to take in consideration different opinions concerning the decision making process of transferring patients to the emergency department or not.

Introduktion: En av domänerna som Kim skriver om är miljödomänen som hon delar i trekomponenter: den fysiska miljön, den sociala miljön och den symboliska miljön. Vid vistelsepå sjukhus blir det förändringar i patientens miljö. Den sociala miljön förändras t.ex. på detsättet att vårdpersonalen alltid finns rumt patienten. Alla faktorer i vårdmiljön påverkarpatienterna på något sätt.

This thesis has been performed at Clinical Chemistry at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg. The purpose of the project was to investigate new and alternative ways to determinate synthetic cannabinoids by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Currently, the possibilities to quantify synthetic cannabinoids are very limited. This can lead to an increased use of synthetic cannabinoids as the risk of detection is low, which may be known by drug users. The synthetic cannabinoids are sold mixed with different herbs and have varying names like Spice Gold, Spice Silver, K2, Smoke and Pot-pourri.The synthetic cannabinoids analyzed were JWH-018 and JWH-073, which are commonly found in seized Spice material.

 Extra high requirements are made on all systems in health care that they are functional and usable,´something, however, that is not always the case. At Emergency Admissions at Sahlgrenska University´Hospital many systems are in use at the same time and it happens that much overhead is caused by having to fill in the same information in different places. In addition, data that is gathered is to a large extent saved in free text format, which means that it cannot be used in a larger context such as research, quality control or for decision support. Data is saved in the patient file only for the treatment process of the individual patient.A data collecting system with decision support functionality could be a first step towards reducing Emergency Admissions? costs and patients? waiting times by providing a structured method of data collection.

Bakgrund: Sjuksköterskor kommer ofta i kontakt med personer med psykisk sjukdom oavsett var de arbetar. Det är allmänt känt att psykisk sjukdom ökar bland befolkningen i hela världen. Den allmänna attityden i samhället gentemot personer med psykisk sjukdom är oftast negativ och att känna rädsla är vanligt. Syfte: Syftet var att belysa faktorer som påverkar den grundutbildade sjuksköterskans bemötande av patienter med psykisk sjukdom inom somatisk vård på allmänsjukhus. Metod: En allmän litteraturstudie har genomförts på ett systematiskt sätt där tio vetenskapliga artiklar sex kvalitativa och fyra kvantitativa, som granskats, värderats och analyserats.

Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva hur patienter med cancer som får palliativ vård upplever sin livskvalitet fysiskt, psykiskt och socialt. Sökningar genomfördes i databaserna Medline, Academic Search Elite och Cinahl samt manuellt. Sökord som användes var quality of life, palliative care, palliative treatment, cancer, advanced cancer, Hospital och home care. Detta resulterade i att nitton vetenskapliga artiklar valdes ut till studiens resultat. Resultatet visade att en obotlig cancersjukdom försämrade livskvaliteten hos patienterna.

Syftet med studien var att beskriva arbetsterapeuters erfarenheter av hur miljön påverkar aktivitet och delaktighet i rehabiliteringen för personer med stroke. Inklusionskriterierna för deltagarna var legitimerade arbetsterapeuter, med minst ett års erfarenhet av rehabilitering för personer med stroke. Verksamma i norra Sverige inom hemrehabilitering i primärvården eller slutenvård. Nio arbetsterapeuter i deltog i studien. Data samlades in genom semi-strukturerade intervjuer med stöd av en intervjuguide.