Background: The goal of psychiatric nursing interventions is to enhance people?s ability tocope with feelings of futility, to get control of their lives and to learn coping strategies inorder to manage their mental illness and its consequences. Specialist nurses in psychiatric carecoordinate and direct nursing care based on evidence-based knowledge.Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate what kind of nursing acts specialist nurses usein the psychiatric inpatient unit and investigate how they perceive their professional role.Method: The design used was a descriptive qualitative interview study. Nine specialist nursesworking in psychiatric inpatient units were interviewed. Six of the participants were womenand three were men aged 28-53 years.

BakgrundVa?rd av en patient inneba?r att skapa trygghet, mo?jliggo?ra social samvaro, skapa god kommunikation och empati, tillgodose basal hygien samt att motivera denne att fullfo?lja sin behandling. Omva?rdnad inneha?ller mentala, emotionella och fysiska komponenter. Omva?rdnad kra?ver da?rigenom emotionellt arbete som utfo?rs fo?r att reglera va?rdarens egna emotioner sa? att de blir la?mpliga fo?r en viss kontext eller i en viss situation.

Nursing care of persons having dementia diseases affecting the frontal lobes, sets special demands on the staff, but the knowledge about how to best tailor nursing care is sparse. The aim of the study was to illuminate possibilities and difficulties in nursing care of persons having dementia diseases with frontal lobe dysfunction and was carried out as a descriptive, qualitative study, based on a review of medical records and interviews with nursing staff (n=10) that was analysed with qualitative content analysis. The difficulties were related to the patients lack of inhibition and judgement, anxiety, agitation, reduced ability to care for physical needs, egocentrism, imbalance between rest and activity, and depressed mood. The possibilities were seen in relation to the nursing staffs professional encounter, characterised by being distinct and consequent, being a step ahead, being flexible and catch the moment, being calm and create a positive atmosphere, being close and trusting and being and doing together. To receive continuous feedback and support was a prerequisite for the staffs? engagement.

The purpose of the study is to investigate MRSA-positive individual´s perceptions of source isolation and barrier nursing, to find nursing inventions witch can provide these patients wellbeing. Eight scientific research reports have been examined, using the guiding principles of Polit et al (2001). The result of the study shows the patients experiences of mentally health/illness, information and communication, physical restrictions and barrier nursing..

Dystocia, or difficult birth, is a commonly seen complication to natural birth in veterinary hospitals. Although other methods of resolving dystocia exist, 60 % of dystocias will need to undergo caesarean section. To perform a caesarean section, the bitch will have to undergo anesthesia. The purpose of this literary study was to provide a deeper understanding regarding how the physiologic changes that occur during pregnancy influence anesthetic management in the bitch and puppies. Which anesthetic drugs and drug combinations indicated was also investigated as well as how a veterinary nurse can optimize care of the mother throughout the procedure and how resuscitation of the puppies should be carried out for best possible outcome.

Forensic psyhiatric care protects the society by giving patients care to diminish risks of serious crimes. In their work the nurses use different care methods to help and support the patient in managing his or her life situation. To clarify how a group of nurses describe the nursing process in forensic psychiatric care. A qualitative study based on interviews. Six nurses were interviewed about their work in four different forensic psychiatric care units.

Bakgrund: Personer med psykisk oh?lsa l?per ?kad risk att drabbas av somatiska sjukdomar, vilket medf?r ett komplext v?rdbehov och st?ller h?ga krav p? ett holistiskt och integrerat omh?ndertagande. Sjuksk?terskan har ett sj?lvst?ndigt ansvar f?r omv?rdnad och en central roll i att uppm?rksamma och tillgodose b?de fysiska och psykiska behov hos patienter inom psykiatrisk v?rd. Trots detta visar tidigare forskning att den somatiska h?lsan ofta nedprioriteras i det psykiatriska sammanhanget. Syfte: Syftet med denna studie ?r att belysa sjuksk?terskors erfarenheter av att hantera somatiska besv?r inom psykiatrisk v?rd. Metod: Studien ?r en litteratur?versikt av nio kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar som analyserades med hj?lp av tematisk analys. Resultat: Tre huvudteman identifierades: 1) Definiera sin roll som sjuksk?terska, 2) F?rh?lla sig till sjukv?rdens organisation, 3) Samarbeta med andra.

Uncertainty is a well-known phenomenon that is recurring in biographies, imaginative literature and science, but is less studied in nursing science. The aim of this participatory action research project was to, in collaboration with nursing students; explore nursing activities for relieving patients? uncertainty. A qualitative approach was chosen with focus groups and the text was content analyzed. The students studied their third semester on a nursing program.

Background: Suicidal patients feelings and experiences of the psychiatric service can be a decisive moment of the following treatment. Although suicide is a common problem all over the world we know very little about the feelings that the patients are feeling in residential psychiatric care. Purpose: The aim of this litterature studie was to describe suicidal patients feelings and experiences of the psychiatric service. Method: Literature study was conducted through a search of articles in different databases. The data has been done as an overview and the data has been analysed with content analysis.

Bakgrund: Sverige blir mer och mer ett ma?ngkulturellt land, da? ma?nga av va?rldens la?nder a?r centrum fo?r kulturell globalisering. Detta medfo?r att en sto?rre andel av personer i va?rt land som so?ker sig till ha?lso- och sjukva?rden har utla?ndsk ha?rkomst och da?rmed ett annat spra?k och kultur. Fo?r att kunna tillfredssta?lla dessa patienters grundla?ggande behov och leverera en individanpassad va?rd, beho?vs o?kad kompetens kring kulturella skillnader och likheter.Syfte: Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att belysa va?rdpersonals erfarenheter av att va?rda patienter med annan kulturell bakgrund.Metod: I litteraturstudien har tio kvalitativa empiriska studier sammansta?llts och analyserats genom en inneha?llsanalys pa? manifest niva?.

The aim of the present study is to examine the experiences from different ways of interpreting in nursing of patients that come from a different ethnic background and speak a different language than the nursing staff..

The aim of this study was to examine nursing personnel?s knowledge about oral health care and attitudes towards the free assessment of the oral status done by the dental service for elderly and handicapped persons in a municipality in the south part of Skåne, and also how personnel experience the free assessment of the oral status done by the dental service and how it functioned at the facilities. The study was carried out by sending out 150 questionnaires to nursing personnel at six special housing facilities. 73% (110 personnel?s) answered the questionnaires.

Background: When children are admitted to the hospital most of them experience a new and unknown world. The staff?s most important task is to reach out to the child in the best way possible. To give good nursing, knowledge has to be gathered of how the child thinks, feels and what the child wants. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe children?s experience of hospitalization on the basis of the four nursing concepts person, health, environment and nursing.

Barn som ska opereras upplever den okända situationen som stressfylld och obehaglig. Denna litteraturstudies syfte var att belysa vad anestesisjuksköterskan kan göra för att minska oro och rädsla för barn och föräldrar i samband med anestesi. Efter analys av 16 artiklar blev resultatet fyra kategorier; information, åtgärder i förberedelsefasen, åtgärder vid anestesitillfället och bedömning av oro. Informationen ska vara omfattande och detaljrik och även beröra den postoperativa smärtlindringen. Internetprogram kan vara bra komplement till traditionell information.

Bakgrund: Vid palliativ v?rd uppkommer etiska dilemman, speciellt vid palliativ v?rd av barn eftersom man m?ste ta h?nsyn till barnets ?lder och mognad i relation till patientens r?tt till delaktighet och autonomi, samt f?r?ldrars ?nskan. Sjuksk?terskan har i sin yrkesroll ett ansvar att v?rna om patientens r?ttigheter och autonomi. Etiska dilemman uppkommer d? flera etiska v?rderingar st?r i konflikt med varandra.