Scandinavian journal of caring sciences
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Timely identification of patients with palliative care needs is a prerequisite for being able to carry out effective and equal palliative care. The Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) identifies patients likely to benefit from a palliative approach. ⋯ The SPICT-SE has now been successfully translated, culturally adapted and content validated in a Swedish healthcare context.
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Telephone nursing is expanding worldwide, but a little is known about nurses' interactions with callers and the factors that affect these interactions. ⋯ Based on the results of this study, telenurses could benefit from training that focuses on the communication skills that are needed for telephone nursing and the tools needed to meet individual callers' needs. Work environments could also better support caller-nurse interactions. Organisations should provide more resources for telephone nursing in order to promote positive interactions.
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To describe telenurses' experiences of monitoring calls in telephone advice nursing to parents of children with gastroenteritis. ⋯ This study shows that many parents feel insecure when their child has gastroenteritis, and the use of monitoring calls may be an effective approach to help them feel more secure at home with their sick child.
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To explore women's traumatic childbirth experiences in order to make maternity care professionals more aware of women's intrapartum care needs. ⋯ Women's intrapartum care needs cohere with the concept of woman-centred care, including personalised care and reflecting humanising values. Care should include informed consent and shared decision-making. Maternity care professionals need to continuously evaluate whether the woman is consistently part of her own childbearing process. Maternity care professionals should maintain an ongoing dialogue with the woman, including women's internalised ideas of birth.
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Prior research has underlined the meaningful function of humour in nursing settings. Nonetheless, most of the empirical evidence on humour and nursing derives from approaches that mainly considered the potential beneficial effects of humour, neglecting potential detrimental effects of the dark side of humour. Moreover, little is known about whether the specific repercussions of humour on healthcare professionals' well-being would go beyond empathy-a construct robustly related to psychological well-being. ⋯ Our results suggest that adaptive humour styles may promote positive indicators of well-being, but they might not protect against negative indicators. Moreover, differential effects of maladaptive humour styles emerged. Whereas aggressive humoristic expressions can be interpreted as a sign of a poor psychological functioning, self-defeating humour may boost positive psychological outcomes among nursing professionals. These data can help to design more efficient humour-based intervention programmes aimed at minimising potential negative consequences of nursing activity.