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.

Modern sjukvård har blivit fragmenterad vilket medför nackdelar för patienter och personal. Teamarbete över professionsgränserna har identifierats som ett sätt att motverka fragmentering och erbjuda god heltäckande vård. Detta har relevans för hörselvården där många patienter behöver insatser från olika professioner. Arbetets syfte var att göra en kartläggning av teamarbete inom svensk offentlig hörselvård samt att undersöka hur teamarbetet ser ut. En totalundersökning har gjorts av Sveriges 21 landsting/regioner.

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..

AbstractThis paper will examine the co-operation culture in teacher work teams in a primary school currently undergoing reorganization in the Stockholm region. This inquiry is based on qualita-tive interviews with teachers and work team leaders, and is aiming to answer how teachers co-operate during the reorganization process, to find the factors that affect co-operation. Our results show that the two teams practice communication, leadership and participation very differently. Currently there are clear differences in the work team?s tendency to develop and to work with the reorganization process, pedagogic methods, social and emotional awareness and ideological beliefs.

Background:Malnutrition is a nursing issue that causes both physical and psychological suffering of those who are affected. In order to achieve care that is safe and has a good quality, it must be based on the assessment and actions of the state. District nurses play a central role in this work. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the district nurses' work with identifying and addressing malnutrition in older people in nursing Home Care of the Community. Method: Six interviews with district nurses were conducted.

Syftet med uppsatsen är att undersöka och öka förståelsen för hur ledarskapet i självstyrande team är utformat samt hur ledare arbetar för att motivera självstyrande team. Genom att beskriva och analysera hur ledarskapet i de självstyrande teamen är utformat är målet att besvara följande frågor: på vilket sätt medlemmarna i de undersökta teamen är självstyrande, hur rollen som ledare för ett självstyrande team är utformad, hur ledarna anser att de självstyrande teamen arbetar för att motivera sig själva, vad ledarna anser motiverar och inspirerar de självstyrande teamen till att göra ett gott arbete samt hur ledarna arbetar med att motivera de självstyrande teamen.Undersökningen är av en kvalitativ ansats och enskilda intervjuer har använts för att samla in empiri. Sju ledare i olika led med olika personalansvar har intervjuats för att besvara våra frågeställningar.Studiens resultat visade att medlemmarna i de självstyrande teamen till viss del fungerar självstyrande och att rollen som ledare för ett självstyrande team är vägledande och stödjande i sin karaktär. Ledarna anser att teamen motiverar sig själva genom att det arbete de utför genomförs tillsammans vilket i sin tur ökar gruppsammanhållningen. Genom att göra medarbetarna delaktiga i beslutsfattande och problemlösande ökar ledarna motivationen hos medarbetarna.

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.

Vi avser studera operativa team inom poliskåren, vad som gör dessa effektiva samt den kontext i vilken de existerar. Vi vill också undersöka huruvida eventuell diskrepans föreligger mellan teori och praktik inom området teameffektivitet. För insamlandet av empirisk data för denna uppsats har vi tillämpat en kvalitativ ansats. Vår huvudsakliga metod för datainhämtning är personliga intervjuer. Vår teoretiska referensram utgörs av Maslows hierarki, McGregors gruppteori, Belbins rollstrukturer för effektiva team, Kotters åtta steg för strategiska förändringsarbete samt Golemans teori kring emotionellt ledarskap och emotionell intelligens.

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.

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.

I den ha?r uppsatsen fo?rses la?saren med en uppfattning om vilken roll nationella kulturskillnader spelar i globala virtuella team besta?ende av Generation Z. Vi fokuserar pa? dimensionen individualism-kollektivism, och gruppdynamik i globala virtuella team ur fo?ljande perspektiv; fo?rtroende, o?msesidigt beroende, kommunikation, samt relations- och uppgiftsrelaterade konflikter. Utifra?n va?r litteraturgenomga?ng formulerar vi tva? hypoteser; 1) att nationella kulturer ha?ller pa? att fo?ra?ndras, och 2) att nationella kulturskillnader inte upplevs existera la?ngre, vilka vi underso?ker genom en kvantitativ enka?t som skickats ut till studenter fra?n hela va?rlden.Va?rt resultat visar pa? att skillnader i nationell kultur har minskat inom vissa omra?den, som kommunikation och konflikthantering, medan de fortfarande a?r na?rvarande na?r det kommer till fo?rtroende och o?msesidigt beroende.

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.

This study was aimed to investigate why team sport coaches use group training as a part in their build-up training. Issues covered in this study are: "What motives have coaches in team sports that use group exercise as part of the build-up training?" and "What are the positive and negative aspects experienced trainers of using group exercise as part of build-up training in team sports?". It was a qualitative study, seven interviews were made with team sport coaches that has used group training as a type of exercise in their built-up training in collaboration with Friskvårdskompaniet. The results showed that the reasons why group exercise were used was different from coach to coach for example one motive was to increase the players physically ability.