As the environmental requirements on businesses increase from various stakeholders, the incentives for businesses to work more with environmental issues also increase. Historically, the requirements were focusing on companies with direct emissions from operations. Lately, the environmental impacts that occur indirectly as results of corporate activities have become more topical. Companies and organizations that mainly offer services often have a greater indirect than direct environmental impact. This is because they are affecting third parties, which in turn have a direct environmental impact.

En persons insjuknande i hjärtinfarkt kräver ett akut omhändertagande och det finns då risk att de närstående till den drabbade personen hamnar i bakgrunden. Närstående är ett stöd och en resurs för både patient och vårdpersonal, men perso-nal upplever det ibland som svårt att bemöta dem bra. För att sjuksköterskor ska kunna uppmärksamma närståendes behov måste de få ökad kunskap om de när-ståendes situation. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person som överlevt hjärtinfarkt. Femton vetenskap-liga artiklar analyserades med kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys, vilken resulte-rade i fyra kategorier: Att överväldigas av känslor: Att gå in i en vårdarroll: Att behöva stöd och information samt Att se livet förändras.

In the beginning of the nineties there was a change in how the voluntary sector was perceived, and the significance of their work became reevaluated and more acknowledged. As a result, this sector gained a new and higher interest. The changes and downsizing in the welfare state with economic crises, due to political cutback, made the politicians look fore new solutions. One solution is to encourage cooperation between the public sector and the voluntary sector in order to handle the different needs of individuals.Uppsala community and the voluntary sector are working closely together within a project called ?God Livsmiljö?.

This study takes place within a publicly owned art producing organization and dwells on the problems of a change process that the organization was involved in. Both leaders and staff were disappointed by the way the change process had developed. The management team explained the outcome by referring to the uniqueness of working with artists who constantly put their own personal objectives before the benefit of the whole. The aim of this study is to find a complementary explanation to the one the management team provided us with; an explanation that can help in the understanding of the dynamics of a change process. Can perhaps theories on information, communication and change processes give an alternative explanation to why the change process faltered? To investigate this, we have used a qualitative single case study.

The aim of this study was to describe and understand parents? perspectives in aid assessment for children according to The Swedish Act (1993:387) concerning Support and Service for Persons with Certain Functional Impairments (Lag 1993:387 om stöd och service till vissa funktionshindrade, LSS). The study took place in the county of Kronoberg, Sweden, and was based on a total of nine qualitative interviews. Four interviews were made with parents? of children who has interventions according to LSS (1993:387) and five interviews were made with LSS case workers. In our study we saw that parents? perspectives often is the largest amount of information that case workers take into account when assessing aid and as a case worker you listen to the parents perspectives to capture the child?s and the family?s needs. It also came clear that the parents? perspective is not only about the child?s needs, but also includes the parent?s own needs and their family?s needs. The parents in the study felt that they made the decision about the choice of aid and considered themselves as the one who decides the family?s requirements. It turned out that treatment and understanding from the case workers was important for gaining access to the best help and making parents feel listened to. Parental responsibility was of great importance for the assessment, and it often led to disagreement between parents and case workers. During the study, we saw that power existed in the relationship between case workers and parents, but that it could be moved and changed during the time of aid assessment..

Our paper is a study about youth and their self-images. During our practical training period we found that the problems young people had always were connected with their self-image. We therefore wanted to find out what youth believe influence their self-image. The purpose of our study was to examine young people and their self-images in a perspective of the ecological systems model. Essential issues have been what self-images young people have, what they consider influence their self-image most, how they think they can resist influence from the environment and how they would like to be influenced by the environment if they could decide themselves.

AbstractIn this study eight caregivers, all with long experience from working in nursing homes for people with dementia, were interviewed.  The aim of the study was to describe the caregiver?s experiences in caring for people with dementia and Behavioral and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia disorder. Data were processed by qualitative, inductive, content analysis. The results were presented in four categories: To connect, Two days are never the same, Being calm and giving time and All are needed. The result showed that caregivers met a variety of difficult and varied tasks in nursing.

Bakgrund: Psykisk oh?lsa ?r en folksjukdom i det svenska samh?llet och m?nga beh?ver v?rd f?r detta. Sjuksk?terskans roll i den psykiatriska v?rden inneh?ller ansvar f?r omv?rdad och utf?ra medicinska behandlingar men ocks? att fr?mja individens sj?lvbest?mmande och delaktighet. Sjuksk?terskan anmodas att arbeta med personcentrerad ansats d?r relationen till patienten ?r avg?rande. Syfte: Att unders?ka patienters och sjuksk?terskors upplevelse av v?rdrelationen i psykiatrisk v?rd.

Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelser av att vara döende. Personerna i litteraturstudien levde med en terminal sjukdom, vilket innebar att de hade en sjukdom som saknar botemedel och som kommer att leda till döden. I litteraturstudien analyserades 24 artiklar med en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Resultatet av analysen gav fyra kategorier: Att vara rädd och känna vanmakt inför förlusterna; Att vilja bestämma över sitt liv och sitt döende; Att kämpa och vilja få mer av livet; Att acceptera döden. Resultatet visade att de döende personerna var rädda för att dö och för smärta.

Varje år dör ca 9 000 personer plötsligt och oväntat i Sverige. Det innebär en kris för de närstående och därför är det av största vikt att sjuksköterskan har kunskap och kompetens att bemöta dem. I enlighet med Travelbee?s omvårdnadsteori där den mellanmänskliga relationen är ett centralt begrepp, tar hon även upp vikten av att sjuksköterskan skall ha kunskap om lidande, sjukdom, ensamhet och död. Föreliggande litteraturstudie syftade till att beskriva sjuksköterskans bemötande av närstående i samband med en persons plötsliga och oväntade död.

This research is based on the observation that people in the service industry is being replaced by technology.  This insight formed a foundation for the presentation of the problem this essay is based upon. We began to speculate over how tourist information bureaus handle the changes, regarding information technology, in their surroundings when their main task is to inform and communicate with their market. Information technology has created new possibilities for organizations to reach their consumers and it has influenced all kinds of industries. We decided to examine organizations in the tourism sector because it is one of the biggest and fastest growing industries in the world. The entering of information technology in the tourism industry has changed its structure and we want to examine how tourist information bureaus succeed to deal with this phenomenon.The aim with this essay is to examine how and to what extent tourist information bureaus integrate with changes in their surroundings caused by information technology and which values that slip away/ is added by the adaption.

In the wake of a heightened interest in the Swedish Middle Ages, the need for knowledge has increased as well. The Swedish Middle Ages was an era when the country truly began to grow closer to the European sphere of culture. The forces behind this transformation are largely to be sought among the social elite, the budding aristocracy of Sweden. The process of becoming ?Europeans? brought with it great changes to Sweden, not the least in terms of the political arena.

Jag har gjort en undersökning om hur intresset för skolkörer ser ut på högstadieskolorna i Malmö. Jag valde att göra både en kvantitativ och en kvalitativ undersökning. Den kvantitativa undersökningen bestod utav enkäter och den kvalitativa undersökningen bestod utav intervjuer av två personer. Tyvärr är det mer än hälften av alla högstadieskolor i Malmö som inte har en skolkör även om intresset verkar finnas hos elever, musiklärare samt hos skolledningen. Skolan drabbas ständigt av olika nedskärningar och skolkörer har blivit ett ekonomiskt problem som skolorna oftast väljer att dra in på.Title: Choir activity in the school ? self-evident or not? - An inquiry at the secondary schools in Malmö.

Amyotrofisk lateral skleros (ALS) är en progressiv neurologisk sjukdom som påverkar en persons hela liv. Den progressiva sjukdomen har dödlig utgång men trots det kan personer som lever med sjukdomen uppleva välbefinnande. Syftet med litteraturstudien var att beskriva upplevelser av välbefinnande hos personer som lever med ALS. I studien ingick 12 kvalitativa artiklar som analyserades med kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i fyra kategorier; Att leva varje dag till fullo; Att välja en positiv syn på livet; Att känna sig behövd och vara ett stöd; Att vara sig själv.

The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge of possibilities and obstacles for disabled people to meet a partner. The ambition was to know more about wishes for and needs of professional or other support. The methods have been literature studies, survey research, and interviews. A simple questionnaire was sent to administrative staff and social welfare officers who gave the information that they experienced those persons with intellectual disability or Aspergers syndrome had asked for support to meet a partner. To get a perspective from inside six semi structured interviews were made with disabled people having experience of relationships, love affairs.