Bakgrund: När en person drabbats av stroke är det i många fall även närstående som påverkas och måste anpassa sig till den nya situationen. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva negativa respektive positiva upplevelser av att vara anhörigvårdare till en person som drabbats av stroke. Metod: Litteraturöversikt med granskning av 15 kvalitativa studier publicerade mellan åren 2006-2012. Resultat: Utifrån anhörigvårdarnas upplevelser av vårdarbetet framkom tio teman. Huvudresultatet var att de upplevde vårdarbetet som betungande, utmattande, bekymrande med brist på egentid och avlastning.

Att drabbas av en stroke är inte bara ett slag mot den person som insjuknar, utan även ett slag för hela familjen. Det uppstår en förändring för familjen då den sjuke ska återgå till vardagen i hemmet. Familjen kan hamna i en roll där de tvingas fungera som vårdare, de måste hjälpa till med det som den drabbade inte själv klarar att utföra och livet måste ibland planeras om. Vi vill lyfta fram familjen och deras lidande. Vårt syfte var att studera familjens lidande då en familjemedlem som fått stroke återgår till vardagen i hemmet.

Background: When someone suffers a spinal cord injury, the nerve impulses between the brain, the muscles and the skin are intercepted, thereby resulting in motion and sensory loss.  During the recovery process, healthcare professionals play a vital role in ensuring that the patients have a positive experience of care, recovery and rehabilitation.Aim: The aim of this study is to determine how patients at a rehabilitation clinic in Sweden experienced the following: The patient?s experience of how well they were received by staff, the staff?s ability to explain and inform the patient of important details concerning their care and the staff?s ability to involve the patients in their own care.Method: A qualitative interview approach was used when undertaking this study. Six patients at the rehabilitation clinic were interviewed, and the interviews were later analyzed using qualitative content analysis.Result: The collected material was divided into ten categories that were sorted into three subheadings: reception of staff, information and involvement. Reception of staff, with categories: helpfulness, commitment, consideration, professionalism and reception. Information, with categories: if the patients felt well-informed.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe how nurses experience meeting patients with self-injurious behavior in health care and the factors that influence nurses' attitudes towards this particularly group of patients. The literature study also contains a review of the articles included datacollection method. Method: A descriptive literature review of quantitative and qualitative articles published between 2004 and 2014. The articles were sought in the databases PubMed and PsycINFO. The result of the present literaturestudy was based on 11 articles.Result:The nurses experiences were mainly positive, however, the results also shows that they feel antipathy, negative emotions, inadequacy and obstacles in the care of patients with self-injurious behavior.

Elective joint surgery increases for every year and the operations are associated with postoperative pain. Postoperative pain is a well known phenomenon and pain physiology and analgesics are well known by caregivers, but the significance of the interaction between patient and caregiver is not illuminated. There are still patients experiencing unnecessary postoperative pain. Among patients in elective surgery, 25% runs a risk for underestimated pain. The aim of the study was to describe patient?s experiences of nursing interaction in the context of postoperative pain during hospitalisation after going through knee- or hiparthropasty.

Afasi är ett samlingsnamn för språkliga skador som kan uppkomma vid skador på hjärnan som till exempel efter stroke som är den mest förekommande typen av hjärnskada. Afasi till följd av stroke drabbar årligen omkring 12 000 personer i Sverige. Symtomen på afasi kan vara av varierande karaktär beroende på var i hjärnan skadan sitter men gemensamt för skadorna är att språkfunktionen på ett eller annat sätt drabbas. Personer som drabbas av afasi kan få svårt att uttrycka sig, förstå talat språk, läsa och skriva. Då personer med afasi lider av nedsatt kommunikationsförmåga kan det innebära att de får svårigheter med att förmedla sina känslor och det kan finnas en viss risk att afatikerns vårdbehov inte blir tillfredsställt fullt ut.

Background: Patients who deliberate self harm often feel disappointed with the health care. The consequence of this may be that the patient avoid to seek help after self harming. Nurses' often experience these patients to be difficult and hard to deal with. Both patients' and nurses' thoughts about the situation may affect the situation in a negative way. A good relationship between the caregiver and patient is important.

AbstractThe aim of this literature review was to describe the quality of life in stoma patients after stomasurgery. Different combinations of the keywords ?stoma?, ?Quality of Life?, ?stomasurgery? were used when searching in the databases Medline, Cinahl, Academic Search Elite and PubMed. A total of nineteen articles were used in the result. Fifteen studies had comparing design and four studies had describing design.

The pressure is getting tougher on Accident and Emergency departments. Therefore it is crucial to study how the patient?s perceive their visit to the Emergency department. Knowledge about this enables improvement of routines, patient participation and patient safety. The purpose of the study was to investigate patient?s experiences of their visit at the Emergency department.A descriptive design was used.

The object with the study of this literature was to describe differente programs of care and patients and relatives experience and opinion about the caring for patients with Anorexia Nervosa. The method the author used was a descriptive literature study based on imperial studies. The studies were based on 15 scientific articles within the chosen field. The results shows that these patients hade special needs to be seen and heard as individuals, involved in their own treatment, and have good contact with the caring staff. The study also shows which methods were mostly appreciated involving nurses, patients and relatives.

Patientgruppen yngre strokedrabbade är, trots till sitt låga antal, en viktig grupp i det avseende att de befinner sig ?mitt i livet? och har i regel familj och yrke att rehabiliteras tillbaka till. Forskning visar dessvärre på ej så framgångsrika behandlingsresultat med ej tillgodosedda behov och minskad livstillfredsställelse. Syftet med studien var att undersöka yngre människors livstillfredsställelse efter insjuknandet i stroke och genomgången rehabilitering utifrån nio olika aspekter av livet, samt undersöka till vilken grad livstillfredsställelse är ålders- och/eller köns betingat. Studien bygger på en tidigare enkätstudie bestående av 1068 förstagångsinsjuknande strokepatienter mellan 18-55 år, ett material som inhämtats från Riks-Stroke, det svenska kvalitetsregistret för strokevård.

AbstractBackground: Pain is usually common patients who undergo high-dose treatment in combination with HSCT. Pain is usually associated with side effects as for example mucositis. The purpose of this study was to examine patients? experiences of pain in relation to stemcellstransplantation. The purpose was also to examine how patients experience that they have been treated by the personnel regarding their pain, and also if the pain relief correspond to the patients expectations.Method: The study is a descriptive, longitudinal study.

It is common that patients experience emotional reactions as agony and anxiety after an acute myocardial infarction. Only a few studies related to the support in the acute stage have been made. The aim was to describe how nurses declared their support to patients with acute myocardial infarction in the acute stage. The used method was semi structured interviews with seven nurses in an Emergency ward in South of Sweden. The material was processed and analysed with inspiration from content analysis and produced two main themes.

Bakgrunden visar att stroke idag klassas som en folksjukdom och att svårigheterna som följer är såväl motoriska som kognitiva. Arbetsterapeuter har en central roll i rehabiliteringen och en del i deras arbete är att bedöma de kognitiva funktionsnedsättningarna. Det är av vikt att de instrument som används vid bedömning är utvärderade för patientgruppen och har bevisats lämpliga genom psykometriska bedömningar. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka vilka psykometriska egenskaper som testats och utvärderats för arbetsterapeutiska instrument vid bedömning av kognitiva svårigheter hos personer efter stroke, från år 2009 och framåt. Metoden som användes var en systematisk litteraturöversikt och tio vetenskapliga studier låg till grund för resultatet.

The aim of this Masters thesis is to study opinions about the Swedish hospital libraries and their activities for the patients, in a selection of Swedish library journal articles. The theoretical starting point is grounded in Laclau and Mouffes discourse theory. The empirical material consists of 43 articles from three library journals; Biblioteksbladet, Blänkaren and DIK-forum, published between 1990 and 2004. These are analysed through a reading scheme in four levels. In the empirical material two themes appear; the culture theme and the patient information theme.