Background: Type 2-diabetes is now a public health problem, which constitutes 85-90 percent of diabetes care. The district nurse´s role in treating a diabetic (/person with diabetes) does not only comprise pure medical treatment but also support, advice and training to the individual. In our profession as nurses, we have found that medical knowledge in patients with Typ 2-diabetes is not always enough to obtain changes in lifestyles.Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the illness perceptions in patients with Type 2-diabetes and their impact on health behavior.Method: This qualitative study used grounded theory as a method. Results: The informants described in the interviews, their perceptions of living with Type 2-diabetes. The analysis revealed the main category periodic health behavior built up on and related to five categories developed in data: preventive health awareness, guilt, confidence in medical treatment, motivational problems and periods of insight.Conclusion: This study contributes to understanding of patients with Type 2 - diabetes their beliefs about illness and how it affects everyday lives.Keywords: Believes, District nurses, Groundey Theory, Illness perception, Type 2-diabetes.

Varje år insjuknar 30000 människor i stroke i Sverige. Av dessa får cirka 12000 människor någon form av afasi som innebär nedsatt språkförmåga och därmed kommunikations svårigheter. Att kunna kommunicera är ett grundläggande behov som är direkt kopplad till individens självförtroende och välbefinnande. För att kunna etablera en god relation till patienten, behöver sjuksköterskan kommunicera på ett bra och effektivt sätt. Det finns risker att kommunikationen mellan sjuksköterskan och patienter med afasi inte blir det optimala som sjuksköterskan och patienten önskar på grund av brister i kommunikationen dem i mellan.

Today, palliative care is performed in several different areas. When the curative treatment is no longer effective the objective of the palliative care is to promote the best possible quality of life for dying patients, through an active and overall treatment. In their work nurses see death and the dying. To highlight and to reach an understanding of the significance of their work, this literature study's objective is, using Carnevali´s thoughts about health as a theoretical framework, to describe different aspects of nurses' experiences of working with dying patients within palliative care. Furthermore the occurrence of stress and possible stress factors will be examined, as well as the nurses' access to support and to established coping strategies..

Aim: To describe nurses' experiences providing end of life care to patients. Method Descriptive literature study, 15 articles were included. The search was made in PubMed, CINAHL and by manual search. The articles were reviewed, analyzed and summarized. Results: For newly graduated nurses? experience in end of life care proved to be something new, developing, difficult to manage and frightening, but expected in the profession.

SAMMANFATTNINGBakgrund: Fo?r att patientsa?kerheten ska kunna garanteras vid en utskrivning fra?n slutenva?rden till kommunen a?r det viktigt att ra?tt information ges mellan instanserna. Det finns dock problem med kommunikationen vilket kan fa? olyckliga konsekvenser.Syfte: Att beskriva en patients utskrivning, fra?n slutenva?rd till kommunal omsorg, ur kommunsjuksko?terskors perspektiv.Metod: En kvalitativ metod med en explorativ design har anva?nts fo?r att besvara studiens syfte. Grundutbildande och specialistutbildade sjuksko?terskor fra?n fyra olika kommuner intervjuades till studien.

The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge about and deepen our understanding for people who are treated with dialysis in aspects of quality of life and coping strategies. The research questions were: How does the scientific literature describe quality of life and coping strategies from people?s perspective who are treated with dialysis? How does dialysis affect patients and their lives? How/what can the nurses do for people who are treated with dialysis to keep or improve their quality of life. The result is based on eight scientific articles and after interpretation of the result we found six themes that describes how patients have to restructure their lives to a new normal life, how they adapt to a life with dialysis treatment, how dialysis affect their physical condition, witch meaning does the family and others have, how they keep their self-esteem in relation to the dependence of dialysis treatment and which factors are associated with a long life with dialysis..

When a person arrives at the emergency ward at the Uppsala University Hospital with his or her symptoms he or she explains the problems and then a priority process starts. The staff evaluate at which emergency level the patient is located in a model called Triage. The Triage model helps to decide the priority need and is based upon templates which point out in which of the 5 categories a patient is to be placed, to eliminate any future risk regarding his or her health. A lower triage level means lower priority but implies better health when the evaluation takes place. To obtain optimal effect of the Triage model the evaluation of symptoms must be reproducible so that patients with the same symptoms are placed at the same triage level regardless of whom among the staff conducts the evaluation. The purpose of the study was to see if the resources are allocated based on priority level of the patients.

Introduction: Balance between the essential nutritive substances is important for aperson to maintain health. The surgical patient can be stricken with conditions, whichhave a negative impact on this balance and can lead to malnutrition. Working as a nurseit is important to identify patients that are malnourished or is in the risk zone ofmalnourishment since 30 % of all patients in hospitals are malnourished.Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the compliance to the guidelines fornutritional assessment and parenteral nutrition on a surgical ward. Also whether thenutritional treatment/-support was reported to the next caregivers if the patient wasmalnourished or was in the risk zone of malnourishment at the time of discharge.Method: 80 patients enrolled on the ward in the beginning of year 2011 were included.Audit of patient records was made according to the hospital guidelines for nutrition andparenteral nutrition and followed a study specific protocol.Results: The examination of the case records showed that the guidelines for nutritionwere partly complied with. Nutritional treatment/-support was reported to the nextcaregivers when needed.

Utifrån kraven på kortare vårdtider är det av vikt att de arbetsterapeutiska insatserna som erbjuds personer som insjuknat i stroke överensstämmer med deras behov av aktivitetsförmåga i hemmet. Syftet med studien var att beskriva personers erfarenheter av aktivitetsförmåga i hemmet efter strokerehabilitering. En kvalitativ metod valdes. Deltagarna bestod av fyra kvinnor och fyra män i åldern 59-83 år. Datainsamlingen genomfördes genom två fokusgrupp-intervjuer där öppna intervjufrågor användes.

Physiotherapists treat people with different views of the world and medical beliefs, which require a good understanding of cultural differences. One way to achieve cultural understanding is through self-reflection in a new context. During five weeks the authors, two physiotherapy students, completed a clinical practice at the rehabilitation center Pina Palmera, Zipolite, Oaxaca, Mexico. At the beginning of the period a critical incident was chosen, when the head physiotherapist for the ward Cuidados Especiales intended to sell jewellery to the authors during a treatment of a patient. The authors have by using the reflection framework "Framework to guide reflective process", and Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) for analysis, discussed different ways of communication, adherence, education, and self-reflection and critical thinking.

This thesis deals with the numerical 3D simulation of a four stroke, spark-ignited, internalcombustion engine, which is mounted on a high performance motorcycle. The work, carried outin collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and MV Agusta, focuses on the simulation of theintake, compression and expansion stroke, including combustion simulation, using an opensource CFD code.Simulation of internal combustion engines offers a great challenge in the field of CFD research.Moving boundaries of the solution domain, caused by the motion of the piston and valves, leadsto deformation of the computational grid, with decreasing quality of the solution as result. Basedon this, a previously developed mesh motion strategy was employed where a number of meshesare used to cover the whole simulation cycle. Within each mesh interval the internal cell pointsof the mesh are moved to account for the boundary motion of the piston and valves. This strategywas previously applied to simplified geometries as well as real engine geometries.

SammanfattningBakgrund Rehabilitering efter ett strokeinsjuknande ska påbörjas tidigt och vara målinriktad. För patienter som drabbats av mild till måttlig stroke rekommenderas i Socialstyrelsens riktlinjer vård på strokeenhet i kombination med tidig understödd utskrivning. Uppsatsen beskriver, analyserar och utvärderar ett förbättringsarbete där tidig understödd utskrivning med stöd av ett stroketeam prövades som arbetsmodell på en strokeenhet.Syfte Syftet med förbättringsarbetet var att patienterna skulle uppleva ett tryggt omhändertagande i samband med utskrivningen, samtidigt som strokeprocessen effektiviserades genom kortare vårdtid på sjukhus. Syftet med studien var att beskriva erfarenheter hos patienter, närstående och personal vid införandet av tidig understödd utskrivning från sjukhus med stöd av ett stroketeam för patienter med mild till måttlig stroke.Metod Förbättringsarbetet utvärderades genom mätning av vårdtider och mätning av patienternas upplevelse av trygghet i samband med utskrivningen. I studien av förbättringsarbetet insamlades data genom semistrukturerade intervjuer med patienter och deras närstående, samt i en fokusgruppsintervju med involverad personal.

The purposes of litteratur review were to describe patients experiences of living with HIV/AIDS and and their expectations when in contact with care/healthcare. As theoretical frame has Antonovsky, A (1991) salutogenic model, sense of coherence been used. After analyzing the content of the litterature it resulted in 5 categories of experiences and 3 categories regarding expectations. The categories that regards experiences were, to feel frustration and dependance, to switch between hope and despair and suicidal thoughts, to be able to cope with the changing self and to feel social support. The categories that regards expectations were, to feel proffessionalism/competence, to get caring treatment and feeling secure, to feel engagement/individuality in caring.

En venport är en dosa som opereras in under huden för att kunna användas vid framförallt kemoterapi, transfusioner, parenteral nutrition, blodprovstagning och smärtbehandling. Syftet med denna studie var att undersöka patienters upplevelser av att ha fått en venport inlagd på venportmottagningen. I syftet ingick även att ta reda på om det fanns någon skillnad mellan mäns och kvinnors upplevelser vad gäller smärta, oro och information i samband med ingreppet samt om det fanns något samband mellan information och smärta vid ingreppet. Patienterna intervjuades utifrån en enkät. Antalet patienter som ingick i studien var 20 kvinnor och 21 män.

ABSTRACTThe aim of the observation study was to examine the dental hygienists working tasks and the time they used carrying them out. Four dental hygienists where observed during four days each. The total time the dental hygienists used with patients during sixteen fulltime days come to a sum of 89 hours of the possible 111 hours. Twelve hours was late cancels and time when patients didn?t come to their appointment and ten hours were used for meetings.