ABSTRACTIntroduction: An increasing number of patients undergo surgery under local anesthesia and are thereforeawake during the procedure. Nursing care that is provided to these patients can differ from those thatreceive general anesthesia. Previous research has focused on patients? general experiences of being awakeintraoperative. But there is no research that focuses on patients perceptions of security.

Närstående till en person med allvarlig kronisk sjukdom lever med känslor av rädsla, ilska, ångest, maktlöshet och skuld. Även deras närståendes relationer påverkas och vardagen förändras. Syftet med denna litteraturstudie var att beskriva upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med allvarlig kronisk sjukdom. Det gjordes en litteratursökning där tio studier valdes ut, som analyserades med en kvalitativ innehållsanalys med manifest ansats. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier; att måste ta ett större ansvar i vardagen, att hitta sätt att hantera den nya situationen, att behöva stöd för att förstå och hantera sjukdomen och den sjuke, att känna sig otillräcklig, att sakna de relationer som har varit, att vara rädd och orolig inför döden och framtiden.

Syftet med denna uppsats var att undersöka hur människor tolkar handlingsförklaringar beroende på bedömarens perspektiv och innehållet i handlingsförklaringen. Undersökningen genomfördes kvantitativt genom en enkätundersökning som baserades på en dialog mellan två personer. Den ena personen utför en handling vilket den andra personen ger olika handlingsförklaringar på. Handlingsförklaringarna delas upp mellan tre olika förklaringsmodeller vilka är skälförklaringar samt interna och externa bakgrundförklaringar. Varje handlingsförklaring följs sedan upp av frågor där respondenten får tolka den aktuella handlingsförklaringen.

I denna litteraturstudie beskrivs upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person med psykotisk sjukdom. Litteraturstudien är baserad på nio stycken vetenskapliga artiklar som är analyserade med en kvalitativ manifest innehållsanalys. Analysen resulterade i sex kategorier, som på olika sätt skildrar upplevelsen av att vara närstående när en person drabbas av psykotisk sjukdom. Bland de upplevelser som skildras framkommer bland annat att stigman kring sjukdomen utgjorde ett stort problem för den närstående, samt även avsaknaden av stöd och information från personer i sjukvården. Inom båda dessa områden finns det mycket att göra inom omvårdnaden.

The aim of the study is to describe social workers discretion when it comes to the relation between children placed away from home and their biological parents.The study describes how the social worker designs the contacts with the biological parents, for instance the extension for the actual meeting. The results are based on six interviews conducted with social workers who work with foster children. They have responded to questions related to the contact between children and their biological parent. The questions are based on eight vignettes. The contents of the vignettes show different conditions that affect the contact, for example age and foster care attitudes The results of the study have been compared to other previous research in discretion of the social worker and contacts between children and their biological parents.In summary the study shows that there is  high degree of independence for the social workers designing their work and that their level of discretion.

Behaviour problems are often behaviours that cat owners don´t like, but are normal to the cat. The reason to why cat owners experience certain feline behaviours as problematic is probably due to the current practice in cat housing. The ways that cats are kept today causes somewhat of a compromise between cat and owner and inhibits the expressions of the cat's natural and normal behaviour. The cat owners may misunderstand their cats behaviour, for example the cat owners believe that their cats perform certain behaviours because of feelings of guilt, hate, revenge or maybe to protest against something or someone. An animal hospital may help solve behaviour problems, but also help the cat owners to undstand their cat´s behaviour in an other perspective. The aim of this study is to investigate the need of a cat ethologist in animal hospitals.

The topic of this essay is the expected effects that can come during and after a mega event and how the local impact may affect the local community and the citizen. This essay concerns a forthcoming mega event, the Olympic Games that will be held in London 2012. The area that the Olympics will be held in is Stratford that is located about twenty minutes from the central of London by the underground. The Olympic Games is one of the largest mega events with its millions of visitors. The purpose of this essay is to study what is expected after the mega event has taken place in London.

To business owners and consumers electronic commerce means new conditions and possibilities. Often and specially at the Internet information between consumers and sellers is asymmetrically distributed. Among the consumers there is a shortage of confidence in electronic commerce. In order of a positive development of electronic commerce it´s important to find a solution to the shortage of confidence. Confidence may be created by legislation or by self- regulation.

This candidate essay aims to examine the possibilities occupational therapists (OT) have in order to support refugee children in Sweden. The authors find the subject of current interest because there is a constant and frequently debate in our society concerning refugees, which makes us question what role the OT could have with this group. Method: This study has a qualitative approach with focus group methodology as method. At two occasions, four respectively three OTs met to discuss an in advance given interview guide. The discussions were coded on the basis of person-, group- and society perspectives.

Östby waterworks in the community of Kramfors has since 2003 had problems of fast clogging of the slow sand filters. As the clogging appears more often, they must be cleaned more frequently which has made the drinking water preparation difficult. Wintertime it has sometimes been impossible to clean the filters which has led to their closing and this has influenced the water quality negatively.The waterworks is a surface waterworks which takes its raw water from the lake Sjöbysjön. The water is flocculated and filtered in a contact filter with the flocculent EKOFLOCK 91. Thereafter it is alkalinized before it reaches the outdoors placed slow sand filters.

This essay is about the history of the hearing aid in Sweden, from 1930s until today. The hearing aid as an apparatus is described, and views by the users are presented. Articles and interviews have been used as source material to answer the main questions. In the essay, people who have written the articles, and the ten users being interviewed, describe how hearing aids are used in everyday life, and how users interact with people in general and how the hearing care system treats users. Another question regards how users perceive their own hearing aids from an aesthetic perspective.

Music not only fun but also necessary. This paper investigates how young people describe their relationship to music. The young people - students - in this study are coming from two different districts of Malmö: One with a population with mainly ethnical Swedish background and the other with a multicultural population. The research question is how we can describe young people's relationship to music on the one hand from the social theories which are presented and on the other hand from own experience as a music teacher. Group interviews are used to get the young people's own descriptions.

Bakgrund: Upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person som lever med långvarig smärta är vanlig då det berör ca 20 % av Sveriges befolkning. Eftersom familjen kan ses som en helhet kan detta innebära både sociala och psykologiska konsekvenser även hos de närstående som då löper ökad risk att drabbas av ohälsa. Syfte: Att beskriva upplevelsen av att vara närstående till en person som lever med långvarig smärta. Metod: Litteraturöversikt sammanställd av kvalitativa artiklar och analyserad enligt Friberg. Resultat: Vardagen för de närstående förändras och begränsas genom att de känner att de måste anpassa sig, det sociala nätverket minskar, rollerna och relationerna förändras.

I dagens samhälle blir kreativitet och nytänkande allt viktigare för företags överlevnad och konkurrenskraft. Därmed har även behovet av kreativa personer på arbetsplatsen ökat. Studiens syfte var att undersöka om kreativitet, genom Runcos ideational scale, kunde kopplas till något personlighetsdrag i Big Five samt till hur pass kreativt en person arbetar. Detta undersöktes genom en enkät med 66 frågor i 3 delar. Enkäten lämnades ut i både pappersform och som webenkät till ett stort antal företag.

When a child is hospitalized, it is usually more than one person who needs attention ? i.e. the child as well as its parents. The emergency ward environment and surgery rooms are unfamiliar and the parents feel anxious, insecure and uncertain about how to act. They are expected to participate in the child?s care, cope with their own anxiety and simultaneously convey a sense of security and stability to the child.