Bakgrund: Sveriges största folkhälsoproblem idag är hjärt- kärlsjukdomar och den vanligaste orsaken till att personer uppsöker akutsjukvård. Att drabbas av hjärt- kärlsjukdom innebär ett lidande och en livsstilsförändring för den drabbade. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att undersöka vad som kan påverka en patient till förändrad livsstil efter hjärtinfarkt. Metod: En litteraturstudie gjordes utifrån 8 stycken artiklar där författarna inspirerades av Burnards analysmetod. Resultat: Resultatet redovisades i 4 kategorier sjukdomsinsikt, informationskällor, socialt stöd och professionellt stöd.

Problemformulering: Varje år avlider ett stort antal personer till följt av en cancerdiagnos. Patienter med en obotlig cancer vårdas palliativt och målet med den palliativavården är att uppnå bästa möjliga livskvalitet. Upplevelser så som rädslor och ångest är vanliga problem och har en speciell innebörd för varje patient. Det är därför betydelsefullt att belysa upplevelser av att stå inför döden för att ökaförståelsen och kunskapen hos sjuksköterskor.Syftet: var att belysa upplevelser av att stå inför döden hos patienter med cancer iden palliativa fasen. Metod: En litteraturstudie som utgörs av 12 vetenskapliga artiklar med kvalitativ ochkvantitativ ansats.Resultat och konklusion: Resultatet visar att existentiella upplevelser, upplevelsen av ångest och oro, förlust, hopp samt acceptans infann sig hos merparten av patienterna som stod inför döden.Implikation: Patienternas upplevelser vid livets slut är varierande och är viktiga att uppmärksammaav sjuksköterskor för att tillgodose patienternas behov. Utbildning och ytterligare forskning utifrån ett patientperspektiv krävs för att optimera denpalliativa vården för patienter med obotlig cancer..

Sleep has a recreating, health promotive and regenerative function. Research shows that intensive care patients suffer from sleep deprivation and bad sleep quality with considerable negative consequences.The aim of the report was to examine how much nocturnal sleep patients without ventilator treatment get and to observe factors that may influence sleep.Methods: An observation chart was used to collect data. The staff?s observation of the patients? night sleep and estimated nocturnal noise- and light levels in the patients? rooms were documented. The patients? answers to questions about pain and possible causes for their awakenings were noted.

Aim. The aim of the study is to highlight Dutch nurses? opinions about assisted death. Background. Since 2002 it has been legally justified for physicians to assist a patients? death in the Netherlands.

Background: Quality of life is a concept of individual meaning which is perceived differently depending on the person experiencing it. To have a chronic disease in the lung, such as asthma, has an effect on the quality of life. Asthma affects people of all ages. It is a disease that causes a constriction in the patients? airways which leads to a feeling of suffocation which in turn produces a feeling of anxiety.Aim: The purpose is to illuminate which factors affect the quality of life in adult patients with asthma.Method: This is a literary review based on ten articles, both quantitative and qualitative, from four different continents.

SAMMANFATTNING I Sverige räknas diabetes som en av de allra största folksjukdomarna och idag finns det 300 000 individer som drabbats av sjukdomen. Av de människor som drabbats av sjukdomen lider 90 % av diabetes typ 2. Sjukdomen beräknas öka kraftigt i framtiden. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva hur patienter med diabetes typ 2 upplever sin vårdkvalitet. Att vårdkvaliteten håller hög nivå och att patienter med diabetes typ 2 får den vård de behöver är av största vikt för sjukvården.

Introduction: Today caring for newborn, sick babies or premature infants is in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). There is an opportunity in NICUs for advanced critical care and skilled nursing care of the child, conducted by health professionals in an active partnership with parents. To encourage parental participation in the care of their children parents are offered accommodation in a family room in the NICU. Objective: The aim is to describe parents' experience to stay in a family room in the NICU when their child is cared for there. Method: This is a research plan for a qualitative study with an inductive, descriptive approach.

Alla människor kan drabbas av en akut sjukdom eller skada. Hur de drabbade hanterar händelsen är mycket varierande. Känslor som rädsla, oro och smärta kan öka risken för mer eller mindre långdragna psykiska reaktioner. Om det akuta vårdteamet har kunskap om den intima kopplingen mellan människans kropp och psyke kan de ge ett korrekt stöd och bemötande redan i ett tidigt skede och därmed kanske minska patientens psykiska lidande. Trots att traumavården gör stora tekniska framsteg finns endast liten kunskap om hur det är att vara traumapatient.

Background: Patients with cervical spinal cord injuries are often dependent on a mechanical ventilator due to the damage on the innervation to breathing musculature. During rehabilitation they have to be trained to regain own breathing. This unweaning process may give respiratory complications, which are main causes to morbidity and death. These respiratory complications are traditionally treated in an intensive care unit (ICU), which means that the patients have to return back to these emergency units.Aim: To investigate number, length and causes of returns to intensive care units and the length of the weaning process. Further, to compare if a multidisciplinary approach to the weaning process may reduce ICU returns and to shorten the weaning process.

According to the statistics, the number of older inmates in prison is increasing, and the care needs for this group are relatively unexplored. The purpose was to study prison officer?s perceptions of older inmates and their care needs. The study was based on a qualitative approach in which prison officers at one prison were interviewed. The interviews were analyzed based on earlier research and from a social constructionist perspective.

After World War II a rapid expansion of the Swedish health care took place. Theexpansion was realised chiefly as a development of the hospitals and was bothproduced and financed mainly within the public sector. The financing consisted to ahigh degree of government grants from the state to the county councils.During the period for this examination (1945-1955) the public responsibility for thehealth care was expanded. This was expressed in the publicly financed system forhealth insurance and the cut down in the charges that the patients had to pay for thehospital care. These changes led to some discussions on the national level but reformscould on the whole, with exception for the suggested reform of the open health care,be implemented.This case-study performed on the county council in Värmland shows that the degreeof consensus was enhanced on the regional level.

We choose to revise the need of dental care in horses. How important is the dental care for our horse´s use and for their health? The objective of this work was to see if there is a difference between Swedish veterinaries and educated horse dentists opinion concerning horse dental care. As horse owners, we have experienced that there is a conflict between the opinions of these two occupational groups. Some veterinarians say that there is a tendency to use to much treatments or instruments in horses mouths, while some horse dentists says that there is not enough treatments done in horses´ mouths.

Pet rabbits are increasing in popularity and the owners want the same treatment for them as they would want for a dog or a cat. However, the knowledge among clinical staff about these small animals is not always up to date. The aim of this paper is to highlight the needs of the pet rabbit and how these can be met regarding veterinary nursing. Pet rabbits are different from dogs and cats in several ways and their needs as patients differ as well. Rabbits are herbivorous prey animals. To avoid predators, they are very reluctant to show any sign of weakness for as long as they can.

Our population are ageing. As this happens more people will be in need of long term care facilities. We now know that some elderly people with certain background factors are more likely to be injured or sick. One of the four biggest background factors is fall propensity. Most of the reported falls come from long term care facilities, approximately 60 % of the care takers in long term care facilities fall one time or more each year.

I sjuksköterskans arbetsuppgifter ingår venösa blodprov och insättande av perifera venkatetrar (PVK). Även då patienten bär en blodsmitta skall detta utföras, vilket sätter sjuksköterskans professionalism och biologiska säkerhet på prov. Sjuksköterskans upplevelser inför att sticka en patient med känd blodsmitta är ett ämne som bör diskuteras mer. Föregås stickmomentet av rädsla eller obehagskänslor? Denna studie syftade till att undersöka sjuksköterskans tankar och upplevelser inför att sticka en patient med känd blodsmitta.