Professional development among newly graduated registered nurses working in acute care hospital settings: A qualitative explorative study.

Aim: To explore newly graduated registered nurses' perceptions of their work situation and management of nursing care in complex patient situations after 18 months of work experience.

Background: Newly graduated registered nurses working in acute care hospital settings play a critical role in providing safe nursing care.

Methods: An explorative qualitative design, with four focus group interviews with 14 newly graduated registered nurses working in acute care hospital settings.

Insufficiently supported in handling responsibility and demands: Findings from a qualitative study of newly graduated nurses.

Aims And Objectives: To explore newly graduated registered nurses' experiences and how they manage complex patient situations.

Background: Newly graduated registered nurses' working in acute care hospital settings are challenged by managing complex patient situations in rapidly changing clinical contexts involving increased patient acuity, comorbidities and staffing shortages.

Design: Qualitative study design.

Newly graduated registered nurses' self-assessed clinical competence and their need for further training.

Aim: To explore and describe changes in self-assessed clinical competence and the need for further training among newly graduated Registered Nurses during their first 15 months of professional work in acute care hospital settings.

Design: Quantitative longitudinal design.

Methods: The 50-item Professional Nurse Self-Assessment Scale of clinical core competencies II was used.

Caring for patients in the end-of-life from the perspective of undergraduate nursing students.

Background: Caring for patients in the end-of-life is an emotionally and physically challenging task. Therefore, undergraduate nursing students (UNS) need opportunities to learn to care for the dying patient. This study aimed to describe UNS' experiences of caring for patients at end-of-life.

Ethics and aesthetics in injection treatments with Botox and Filler.

The medical nature of esthetic treatments is confusing, as the boundaries between medicine and beauty are unclear. A person's autonomous decision is an indicator for esthetic treatments that will improve their self-image, self-esteem and appearance to others. Robust ethical consideration is therefore necessary for the medical esthetician in each meeting with the client.

Newly graduated nurses' clinical competencies and need for further training in acute care hospitals.

Aim: To assess self-reported clinical competence and the need for further training among newly graduated registered nurses (NGRNs) working in Swedish acute care hospital settings.

Background: NGRNs are expected to take full responsibility for patients' nursing care in an increasingly complex clinical context, and professional nurses' clinical competence is critical in providing high-quality and safe nursing care.

Design: A cross-sectional design.

The psycho-social dimension of pain and health-related quality of life in the oldest old.

Background: Chronic pain has an impact on the physical and social functioning of older people which in turn may worsen their health-related quality of life. Research with focus on prolonged extensive pain in the most elderly and how pain may interfere with their life situation is scarce.

Aims:   The aims were to describe and investigate pain from a multidimensional point of view (duration, location, psycho-social) and health-related quality of life as well as to compare sex and age groups in people aged 80 years and over.