En graviditet innebär stora förväntningar. Vid ett missfall byts det ut mot grusade drömmar, skuldkänslor, och sorg. Vårdgivaren har ett viktigt arbete med att ge kvinnan god omvårdnad och hjälp att komma vidare. Syftet med denna studie är att kartlägga kvinnors behov av omvårdnad vid ett missfall för att som sjuksköterska få en bättre förståelse för denna patients vårdbehov. Metoden som använts är en litteraturstudie enligt Polit och Hungler (1999).

Previous research and patient complaints to the Swedish Patient Support Committee shows that there is a lack of substance in the patient-nurse relationship. This may suggest that it can be difficult for health care to live up to health-care law which requires it to be of good quality, based on dignity and respect and designed so that the patient is an active participant and can make their own decisions when it comes to their health care. For a better understanding of what a dignified patient-nurse relationship is, this study aims to clarify what the patient values as good patient-nurse relationship and describe how they have experienced the patient-nurse relationship during their stay at an emergency care department. The study is a descriptive cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach, where the population consisted of patients who were cared for at an emergency care department in the County of Västmanland, Sweden during 2007. The sample consisted of 93 patients which were asked to answer a questionnaire.

Bakgrund: Blodburna infektioner utg?r ett globalt folkh?lsoproblem med varierande prevalens beroende p? socioekonomiska faktorer och tillg?ng till v?rd. Sjuksk?terskan har en viktig roll i omv?rdnadsarbetet som utg?r fr?n evidensbaserad v?rd med fokus p? patients?kerhet och smittskydd. Syfte: Syftet var att unders?ka sjuksk?terskors upplevelser av att v?rda patienter med blodburna infektioner i en sjukhusmilj?.

Swedish healthcare are in need of radical changes to meet the requirements from both the government and the patients to create organisational working methods that better support the patients through their healthcare processes. Digitalization of patient data has been going on for decades in order to increase participation and understanding among patients in their care processes. However, availability of information does not ensure understanding. Therefore, resources should be devoted to create conditions to enable participation. The purpose of this study is to explore how visualization of patient data in the patient?s journal can affect the consultation in the encounter between the doctor and the patient.

Bakgrund: Sepsis ?r ett potentiellt livshotande tillst?nd som kr?ver snabb identifiering och behandling. Sjuksk?terskan har en central roll i det initiala omh?ndertagandet p? akutmottagning, d?r tidig identifiering ?r avg?rande f?r patientens ?verlevnad, lidande och h?lsa. Flera faktorer kan dock f?rsv?ra sjuksk?terskans f?rm?ga att identifiera sepsis.

Background: The majority of patients requiring medical attention experience some degree of pain. The nurses´ assessment of pain is crucial in reducing the patients suffering in a proper and timely manner. Previous studies have shown that the treatment of pain in a emergency situation is poorly managed. The patients´ pain experience is often under assessed and undertreated which leads to increased suffering for the patient. This results in higher costs for the health care system due to prolonged hospitalization.

Background The aim of palliative care is to improve the quality of life for both the patient and her next of kin during the patient?s end of life. Palliative care rests on the four cornerstones managing symptoms, communication and relationship, teamwork and relative support. The nurses? task is to assess the patients? physical, mental and spiritual needs according to these four cornerstones.Aim To assess nurses? experiences of treating patients at the end of life.Method Eleven academic journals that respond to the aim has been analyzed and synthesized in a literature review in order to summarize current research on the subject.

Cultural bias in health assessment has been asserted in various scientific reports. The aim of this study was to determine whether ethnicity effects how patients are represented in such medical certificates that are needed to obtain a certain Swedish social insurance. The setting was an analysis of 18 medical certificates for patients whose parents were born in Sweden, respectively of 18 medical certificates of patients whose parents immigrated to Sweden from non European countries. The main objective was comparison of the two groups to test for ethnical heteronormative representations of the patients and their parents. The method used is mainly based on critical discourse analysis in combination with Fowlers (1996) semantic tools used to decipher disparity in the discourse.

As a public nurse there is a great probability that you will meet patients that have had a myocardial infarction. We want to contribute to create a greater understanding of how a nurse can support and understand these people. The last 30 years the infarction care has made a big progress. Still many conceptions remain which means that for many people a myocardial infarction leads to a belief that this is the end of the working life, social life, sparetime activities and travelling. Due to this misbelief it is important that the nurse creates good conditions for the patient right from the start.

Background: Sleep is the most important human recovery process and research supports assumptions that sleep is an important component in the healing process. Lack of sleep can be the onset of certain diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Sleep is an integral part of basic nursing. It is important for nurses in hospitals to form a correct understanding of the patients? sleep since they among other things are responsible for administering ad lib hypnotic medication.

Den elektroniska kommunikationen a?r idag en stor och viktig del i vardagen, da?rfo?r beslutade sig La?nsstyrelsen i Hallands la?n fo?r att starta ett projekt da?r de i ett samarbete med Ho?gskolan i Halmstad skulle utfo?ra en fullsta?ndig risk- och sa?rbarhetsanalys inom sektorn elektronisk kommunikation, tillsammans med kommunerna och regionen i Hallands la?n. Som en fo?rsta del i en risk- och sa?rbarhetsanalys, ma?ste en riskidentifiering go?ras och det a?r det som a?r syftet med rapporten. Resultatdelen i rapporten bygger pa? en sammansta?llning av svar fra?n intervjuer med ansta?llda inom kommunerna och Region Halland.Riskerna som fo?ranletts av de identifierade hoten a?r relativt ma?nga och a?r av olika form och allvarlighetsgrad.

ABSTRACTAim. To describe intensive care nurses´ experiences of caring for patients with postoperative delirium after heart surgery.Background. Delirium is a common condition after heart surgery. Previous research has focused more on pathophysiology, incidence, etiology, prevention, detection and management, and less on how nurses caring for patients with delirium experience it.Design. A qualitative interview study.Method.

Bakgrund:Sjuksköterskors huvudsakliga mål är att respektera patientens integritet och självbestämmande i vården samt att ge omvårdnad så att patienten känner sig trygg. Inom psykiatrisk omvårdnad ska sjuksköterskor dessutom ha fördjupade kunskaper för att främja hälsoresurser hos patienter samt tillgodose patientens omvårdnadsbehov. Sjuksköterskor betonar behovet att förtydliga målen inom psykiatrisk omvårdnad och enligt Socialstyrelsen behöver den psykiatriska vården förbättras.Syfte:Syftet med studien är att beskriva brister relaterat till sjuksköterskans utförande av omvårdnad inom psykiatrisk vård för att förebygga uppkomsten av vårdlidande hos patienten.Metod:En litteraturöversikt bestående av tio vetenskapliga artiklar hämtade från databaserna Cinahl och Pubmed. Artiklarna lästes igenom, analyserades, bearbetades och flera kategorier bildades. Den teoretiska utgångspunkten är begreppet vårdlidande som tagits upp av Katie Eriksson.Resultat:Två huvudkategorier av brister med respektiva subkategorier framkom.

Background;Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a lung disease characterized by airway obstruction. Common signs of COPD are the slow process and shortness of breath on exertion. The most important treatment is to quit smoking. Most nurses, regardless of where they work, will meet these patients, often when the patients are having respiratory disorders. Aim;the aim of this study was to illuminate how patients with COPD describe the daily life based on how he/she experience and cope with the disease.

Breast cancer is the most common tumor disease among women in Sweden. About 7000persons, having a median age of 65, are diagnosed each year with this disease. Withmammography screening, breast cancer can be detected in an early stage which improves theoverall survival (OS). 20-30 % of the breast cancer tumors are overexpressing humanepidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2), which is a protein that stimulates cell proliferation.Trastuzumab (Herceptin®) is a humanised monoclonal antibody that targets the HER2-proteinand prevent the signals for cell proliferation.Trastuzumab has earlier been used for treatment of metastatic breast cancer. In the year of 2007trastuzumab was approved for adjuvant treatment of patients who has been medicated withsurgery and/or radiation.The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of adjuvant treatment with trastuzumab inHER2-positive breast cancer patients.