The purpose of this study was to find out what are the information needs of the nurses and if the Hospital library can satisfy these needs, and see how the Hospital library reaches the nurses with their information provision. The main questions are: what kinds of service exist at the Hospital library? What kinds of needs have the nurses concerning the Hospital library? How are the needs satisfied by the Hospital library? What marketing strategies are used by the Hospital library to reach out to the nurses? Is it enough to achieve the goal? The method in this study was a case study with the emphasis on the qualitative interviews. The study was conducted at the Hospital library at Södra Älvsborgs Sjukhus in Borås. The interviews concerned the nurses views on the Hospital library, information needs and marketing.

ABSTRACTThe discussions about energy use have increased year by year everywhere in the society, and so also in the healthcare sector. But what is actually energy use in a Hospital facility, and what affects it?The typical way today to express the energy use is in kWh/m2. The problem with a key performance indicator that is expressed as energy use in relation to a specific area is that it does not take into account the activity in the building. Even though the activity to a very high extent affects the energy use.

ABSTRACTThe discussions about energy use have increased year by year everywhere in the society, and so also in the healthcare sector. But what is actually energy use in a Hospital facility, and what affects it?The typical way today to express the energy use is in kWh/m2. The problem with a key performance indicator that is expressed as energy use in relation to a specific area is that it does not take into account the activity in the building. Even though the activity to a very high extent affects the energy use.

This study is an attempt to examine a Hospital library's difficulties in reaching customers with consumer health information. The method was a case study of the consumer health service in the Hospital library in Västerås, a town in Sweden. Qualitative interviews, observations and written material were used. The approach was from the actor's point of view with the intention to look upon the problem with the eyes of those who work at the Hospital with information to patients, that is librarians and medical staff. Theories about marketing in service organizations and how to develop new services were used in the study, as well as theories about communication and different cultures within organizations of different kinds like the library and the Hospital.

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the role of bibliotherapy at Hospitals and also what knowledge of and insights on bibliotherapy a few Swedish Hospital librarians have. Questions investigated are: What role do the Hospital librarians think literature has in the treatment of a patient? What is their view on their role as a Hospital librarian and do they believe that they can have a part in the treatment of a patient? Is the concept bibliotherapy commonly used or is there another term in use? How important is the linkage between healing and literature? In this study, the view on bibliotherapy is limited to a Hospital perspective. The purpose of the study is therefore to investigate bibliotherapy at the Hospital. Six qualitative interviews with Hospital librarians were performed at three general or combined general/medical Hospital libraries.

The aim of this project was to create an interior design for a children?s Hospital patient room with the concept to adapt the room for the wide target group from 0-18 years of age. The analysis in the project is based on the Hospital ward 322 at Drottning Silvias Children?s and Youth Hospital in Gothenburg. It?s an oncology ward where the children are very sensitive for infections and therefore need to be isolated in their rooms for 3-4 weeks.The main goal for the project was to create a room that works as a template and gives the people who lives in it the opportunity to create thier own room based on the personal things they bring into it, and how they decide to furnish and use the room.The result of the project is a template room with fixed furniture that can be transformed due to screens in the room.

The aim of this paper is two-fold. Firstly, it is the production of a historical and chronological narrative describing the development of the Swedish Red Cross Hospital in Pusan during the years 1950-58. Secondly, it is the investigation of the objectives and aspirations of the organisations and institutions involved and how they affected how the Hospital developed during the wartime years and up until the inauguration of the Scandinavian educational Hospital, the National Medical Centre, in Seoul. Shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 Sweden, a neutral nation, offered to send a contingent for the establishment of a 200 bed mobile field Hospital which was to be subjected to the command of the Eighth US Army in Korea. In the end a larger semimobile evacuation Hospital was set up in Pusan where both UN soldiers and PoWs were treated, and it came to be known as the Swedish Red Cross Hospital. The decrease in and finally the cessation of hostilities in 1953 opened up for treatment of Korean civilian patients and such work was conducted not only at the Swedish Hospital but all over Pusan, though initially it was not formally sanctioned by American and UN authorities.

ABSTRACTThe discussions about energy use have increased year by year everywhere in the society, and so also in the healthcare sector. But what is actually energy use in a Hospital facility, and what affects it?The typical way today to express the energy use is in kWh/m2. The problem with a key performance indicator that is expressed as energy use in relation to a specific area is that it does not take into account the activity in the building. Even though the activity to a very high extent affects the energy use.

ABSTRACTThe discussions about energy use have increased year by year everywhere in the society, and so also in the healthcare sector. But what is actually energy use in a Hospital facility, and what affects it?The typical way today to express the energy use is in kWh/m2. The problem with a key performance indicator that is expressed as energy use in relation to a specific area is that it does not take into account the activity in the building. Even though the activity to a very high extent affects the energy use.

The outdoor environment at Children's Hospital, the University Hospital, Uppsala, is used by sick children at the Children's Hospital, their families and the Hospital staff. The staff at the Children's Hospital wanted to render the site more attractive and available. This graduation thesis is a proposal about how the outdoor environment at the Children's Hospital can be improved. The aim is to design an environment for the sick children, their families and the Hospital staff that will serve as a place for relaxation and privacy, as well as for play and movement. In order to find support for the redesign of this site I read literature about theories concerning healing environments, healing gardens, children's play and designs for children.

The purpose of my study is to examine how the Hospital Play Specialists looks at the importance of play for children in the Hospitalenvironment. The thesis is based on qualitative research interviews. This means that respondents followed an interview guide with questions. These questions I compiled in advance. The main theme in the interviews has been the characteristics and importance of play.

This essay is about reading among patients in Hospital. The aim of the essay is to find out what part reading and the library play for patients in Hospital. An additional aim is to find out in what ways the collaboration between Hospital librarians and Hospital staff could be developed. The starting-point of the problem is one main question: What part does reading play for the patient during the stay at the Hospital? On the basis of the answers to this question I have also looked for possibilities of enhanced co-operation between Hospital libraries and Hospital staff.The method for the essay is qualitative and fifteen persons in three different wards at University Hospital in Malm have been interviewed.

Background: For most children, being Hospitalized is a whole new experience. The care should be safe and meet the children?s needs. In Hospital care, children are a large group of patients. It?s important for them to be involved in decisions regarding their care and to get proper information.

Hospital Mergers have been proved to be troublesome, the most crucial ingredient is believed tobe the participation of members of the organization on all levels. When the Hospital mergerbetween the Hospital of Malmö and the Hospital of Lund is a fact, it seems clear that knowledgeabout managing motivation is important. The knowledge could also lead to increased possibilitiesto improve support for motivation where needed at the Hospital.I have through a literature review created a descriptive model of the theoretical view onmotivational factors for participation in change and their relationships. The theoretical modelwhere then tested in a empirical study in which additional data created a more true model of themotivation on participation at the Hospital.The findings of the study show how the descriptive model illustrates how the twodifferent departments both work with a empowering philosophy that have built in properties thatenable the employees to gain more motivation. The model also underline the importance of thecommunication role to enlighten the employee in what, where, when and why the change takesplace.

In this project I have worked with creating a new kind of room in a Hospital enviroment for children. The main purpose of the project has been to form a secure and positive experience for the patient while visiting a specific room at the department of childrens physiologi, at Drottning Silvias Children- and youth Hospital in Gothenburg.The project was based on questions like how it is possible to move the focus from the unsecure and scary, to something secure and positive, when the patient is going through an testing situation.The target gruop included a wide age span (0-16 years old), therefore I have worked with a theme, H2O, that works for diffrent ages. In the room, I have applicated the theme in different levels that is changeable depending on the age of the patient.During the project I have presented my ideas for the staff at the Hospital. We have discussed their problems, what they wish in their working enviroment and how they experience the situation for the patients. I have also asked the patients how they experience the specific room today.The result of the project is a visual idea of how you can create a room, that you don?t exepect to find in a Hospital..