Vid palliativ vård bör, enligt WHO, organiserat stöd erbjudas närstående såväl under patientens sjukdomstid som efter dödsfallet. Syftet med föreliggande arbete var att kvantitativt mäta effekterna av deltagande alternativt icke deltagande i efterlevandegrupp. Efterlevande (n=84) till patienter som vårdats hemma med hjälp av en palliativ enhet fick svara på enkätfrågor av likert-typ som mäter sorg, nedstämdhet och depression. Mätningarna skedde vid två tillfällen, före start av efterlevandegrupp och 10 veckor senare. Svar lämnades av 75 personer vid första mättillfället och 61 vid det andra.

Bakgrund Patienter i livets slutskede återfinns inte bara på palliativt inriktade avdelningar, utan även på somatiska avdelningar där verksamheten till stor del är kurativt inriktad, vilket kan resultera ien bristande vård för patienter i livets slutskede.Den palliativa vården i Sverige styrs av WHOs definition med tillhörande fyra hörnstenar.Kring patienten i livets slutskede finns etiska aspekter vilka måste tas i beaktning, bland annat den enskilde patientens önskningar om hur dennes vård ska se ut. En stor del av den palliativa vårdens fokus ligger i lindrandet och omhändertagandet. Genom att implementera de palliativa målen i akutsjukvården, kan eventuella konflikter i omhändertagandet av patienter i livets slutskede på akutmedicinska avdelningar undvikas.SyfteAtt belysa sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att ge vård i livets slutskede på en akutkirurgisk avdelning.MetodMetoden som valdes var en kvalitativ intervjustudie, då författarna ansåg det vara den mest lämpliga metoden för att besvara studiens syfte. De intervjuade var sju legitimerade sjuksköterskor verksamma på tre akutkirurgiska avdelningar.ResultatSjuksköterskorna kände sig trygga i det palliativa omhändertagandet. De upplevde även att de hade tillräckliga kunskaper för att ge god palliativ vård.

AbstractBackground: Relation means the relationship between two parts. By creating a good relation between nurse and patient you can conduce a better caring. Aim: The aim of the study was to illustrate the relation within palliative care from nurse- patient perspective. Method: The study is a literature review where ten articles were analysed with qualitative content analysis. Results: The findings showed that knowledge, communication, continuity, silence and availability were the most important thing for the nurse in the relationship.

Background:There are approximately 45 000 people in the ages over 65 years dies outside the health facilities of the hospitals in Sweden in every year. Previous research has shown lacking knowledge in taking care of the next of kin during and after a sudden death. However, conducted research has emphasized that ambulance nurses often are the next of kin?s first contact with the health care system during sudden death at home. Research has also shown that the mourning of the next of kin is affected by the ambulance nurses? way of announcing the next of kin when someone close dies.

Background: Globally, one percent of all people diagnosed with cancer are children. Childhood cancer often requires long and tough treatments. When a child is diagnosed with cancer it also affects the family and the relatives. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the nurse?s role in the care and treatment of children with cancer.

AbstractFörfattare ? Malin Andersson och Slaven MarasTitel ? Aspects of decentralizations effect on eldercare ? a qualitative study of three municipal authority office/ Aspekter på decentraliseringens effekter på äldreomsorg ? En kvalitativ studie i tre kommuners myndighetskontorHandledare ? Linda ErlandssonExaminator: Jan Petersson This is a qualitative study of the phenomenon of decentralization and its impact on care managers working in elderly care. The aim of the study was to examine how care managers margin for maneuver and need assessments continually are shaped by organizational conditions and municipal governance. With these aspects in mind, we wanted to identify similarities and differences in three different municipalities? ways to work with care management in the elderly care.

This essay is intended for veterinary nurses and its purpose is to contribute to an increased knowledge about the ferret and there by a better nursing care at clinics. The essay discuss in briefness origin and earlier use of the ferret but also anatomy, physiology and reproduction. The senses of the ferret, as vision and hearing, are described in connection with behaviour. The part of the essay where nursing care is described bring up procedures as handling when collecting blood, medical techniques and how the clinic best should be suited for these animals. The main part of the essay is based on literature studies but it also contains a study visit at Blå Stjärnans animal hospital in Göteborg. 23.

The purpose of this thesis is to identify power structures and instruments of power within the Jehovah?s witnesses and investigate how they affect the baptized youths baptized within the organization. The material consists of qualitative in-depth interviews and is analyzed with Foucault's theories of power. The results show that the participants have a very strict relationship to the rules of the congregation and also that they take great care in observing these rules carefully. It becomes evident that young members are exposed to disciplinary measures from the organization.

Det blir mer vanligt att familjen uppfyller den döendes sista önskan, att få dö i sitt eget hem. Vården i hemmet gör att familjen få inta ledarrollen i omvårdnaden av familjemedlemmen. Familjen har en stor betydelse för den döende familjemedlemmens sista tid i livet blir. Syftet med denna uppsats var att lyfta fram familjens upplevelser av att vårda en familjemedlem i palliativt skede i hemmiljö. Metoden som användes var litteraturstudie där aktuell forskning inom palliativ vård sammanställdes Databassökning gjordes i CINAHL, Medline, PubMed och ELIN@Kalmar.

The purpose of this study was to explore the approach of the personal in residential care homes, legal guardians and Refugee secretaries consider as effective in their efforts to care for and guide unaccompanied boys in the Swedish society. With the help of qualitative method and semi-structured interviews, we have taken note of eleven informants? perspective on what approach they believe to be essential in the work of integration process with unaccompanied boys. We used Empowerment and the Swedish Integration Board´s proposal on indicators of integration as a theoretical base. The results show among other things, that our informants believe the keys to integration in Sweden for the unaccompanied youth are the Swedish language, education and a stable social network.

Cancersjukdom är den näst vanligaste dödsorsaken i Sverige. Patienter med cancersjukdom i livets slutskede har ofta plågor och lider i flera avseenden. Detta beskrivs i flera studier från olika delar av världen. Syftet med uppsatsen var att undersöka hur patienter med cancersjukdom i palliativ vård upplevde sitt lidande och hur sjuksköterskor kunde underlätta patienternas situation och lindra deras lidande. Uppsatsen är en beskrivande litteraturstudie grundad på fjorton vetenskapliga artiklar. Databearbetningen skedde med hjälp av induktiv analys där upplevt lidande sattes i fokus. Det framkom att patienterna led och plågades av fysiska, psykosociala och andliga/existentiella problem. Sjuksköterskors lindrande åtgärder hade stor betydelse för dessa patienter och deras anhöriga. När sjuksköterskorna var uppmärksamma på patienternas behov och såg den unika individen bakom sjukdomen kunde deras lidande lindras optimalt. Det var svårt att generalisera resultatet, då varje individ upplevde lidandet på sitt eget sätt. Sjuksköterskors personliga egenskaper och professionalism var av stor vikt vid mötet med dessa patienter. Medicinska åtgärder i kombination med sjuksköterskans kunskaper kan ge en bredare lindring av patienters lidande.

Today is what you could call a golden age for technological development in health care. Technology is given a bigger role in healthcare and serves not only as a support for health professionals in their daily work but also as a tool for the patient. With the help of eHealth services, patients are becoming more involved in their own care. This improves patient?s knowledge about their health, which in turn contributes to higher motivation to perform self-care.

The purpose of this study is to, based on qualitative interviews with managers and group interviews with care providers, understand their interpretation of integrity and also their scope for action to satisfy disable people?s integrity at sheltered housing for adults. The questions of this study are: How do the managers and the care providers interpret the concept of integrity? Which scope for action do they have to satisfy the integrity of disabled people? Method: Individual ? and group interviews have been used as methods to gather empirical data. Theory: The theories of scope for action and integrity as a theoretical conception have been used to analyze the empirical material.

Stöd till närstående är en del av den palliativa cancervården. Närstående kan uppleva att de inte känner hanterbarhet, begriplighet och meningsfullhet i och utanför vården. Syftet med studien var att beskriva upplevda behov av stöd hos närstående i sen palliativ cancervård. Som metod användes en systematisk litteraturstudie där 16 vetenskapliga artiklar sammanställdes. I resultatet framkom tre kategorier: Stöd för att vara delaktig i vården, stöd för att bibehålla ett socialt sammanhang samt stöd i existentiella frågor.

The purpose with this qualitative interview-study was to try, from the carer´s point of view, to describe the meaning and the essence of the good meeting. The participants were selectively chosen and were all women of varying life- and professional experience. They were interviewed with four interrogative forms that dealt with the experiences of the meaning and the essence of the good meeting. The analysis of the contents of the four interviews produced five themes: the meaning and the essence of aware presence in the good meeting, the meaning and the essence of the personal alliance, the carer's need of being seen and getting appreciation, the courage to bring up insulting behaviors while still preserving the relationship, personal qualities of the care. Aware presence was to be a main theme through out the meeting.