Publications by authors named "B S Brinchmann"
Aims And Objectives: To investigate the barriers experienced by intensive care nurses and registered nurses and to provide optimal nursing for adult patients with a temporary tracheostomy in intensive care and general wards.
Background: Tracheostomy is widely used in intensive care units, around 20% of intensive care unit patients undergo tracheostomy insertions and expect high quality of care. Caring for patients with a tracheostomy is complex and challenging task.
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- Eating disorders (EDs) are serious mental health issues that can lead to significant suffering, complications, and even mortality, often requiring hospitalization and specialized nursing care.
- A qualitative study involving interviews with twelve nurses highlighted key challenges in establishing therapeutic relationships with patients suffering from severe EDs, focusing on their unique emotional experiences and needs.
- The findings identified six main themes, emphasizing the necessity for nurses to possess both somatic and psychiatric expertise, as well as the importance of teamwork and colleague support to manage the complexities of treating these patients effectively.
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- Anorexia nervosa is a severe mental disorder leading to complex care needs, with nasogastric tube feeding under restraint being a critical yet ethically challenging nursing task in hospitals.
- The study involved twelve registered nurses from a Norwegian psychiatric hospital, using narrative interviews and reflexive thematic analysis to explore their experiences related to this care practice.
- Findings revealed themes of providing effective care under coercion, expressing ethical concerns when patients are not in immediate danger, and the complications of involving external personnel in the treatment process.
An individual's likelihood of developing non-communicable diseases is often influenced by the types, intensities and duration of exposures at work. Job exposure matrices provide exposure estimates associated with different occupations. However, due to their time-consuming expert curation process, job exposure matrices currently cover only a subset of possible workplace exposures and may not be regularly updated.
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- The Exposome Project aims to explore how various occupational exposures affect health, focusing on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) to set research priorities.
- A narrative review was conducted to analyze occupational risk factors linked to six NCD groups, identifying over 200 exposures with varying levels of evidence regarding their health associations.
- Key findings indicate that certain exposures like diesel engine exhaust have consistent links to lung cancer, while others require more research to better understand their impact on health.