Breastfeeding mother's experiences with breastfeeding counselling: a qualitative study.

Background: Mothers are recommended to breastfeed their children but can find it challenging and experience breastfeeding problems. Qualified breastfeeding counselling from healthcare professionals can help mothers master breastfeeding, but there is a need to explore mothers' lived experiences with receiving breastfeeding counselling. We aimed to reveal breastfeeding mothers' experiences with receiving breastfeeding counselling from midwives and public health nurses (PHNs) to provide a deeper insight into the phenomenon of breastfeeding counselling, which may improve breastfeeding counselling in practice.

Public health nurses' experiences with mental health promotion for adolescent immigrants in schools: A qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: This study aimed to explore public health nurses' experiences with mental health promotion for adolescent immigrants in lower secondary and high school, aiming to enhance knowledge and insights for effective mental health promotion.

Methodological Design And Justification: A qualitative design employing a hermeneutic approach was chosen. Thirteen public health nurses were selected using purposive criterion sampling and snowballing.

Mapping interaction quality for nursing and medical students in primary care placement in municipal emergency care units: a systematic observational study.

Introduction: Primary care placement for nursing and medical students is vital for developing the competence to accommodate the increasing number of patients with multimorbid and complex conditions. Prior studies have suggested that interaction quality in primary care placement empowers learning. However, research mapping interaction quality in primary care placements in municipal emergency care units is lacking.

A balancing act-midwives' and public health nurses' experiences with breastfeeding counselling.

Aims And Objectives: To explore midwives' and public-health nurses' experiences of breastfeeding counselling in order to provide a deeper insight into breastfeeding counselling.

Methodological Design And Justification: A qualitative design was used, and qualitative content analysis was conducted to analyse the data in accordance with the phenomenological hermeneutic tradition.

Ethical Issues And Approval: The Norwegian Centre for Research Data approved this study.

Scandinavian Online Cancer Information as Expressions of Governmentality: A Comparative Qualitative Study.

We compared online distributed information provided to patients with cancer in Scandinavian countries through the lens of governmentality. A secondary comparative qualitative analysis was conducted. Discourses in online patient information showed differences in governmentality techniques across the countries: Norway used a paternalist approach, Denmark an educative approach, and Sweden an individualistic approach and expected the patients to make the "right" decisions.

Medical students' learning experience and participation in communities of practice at municipal emergency care units in the primary health care system: a qualitative study.

Background: Medical education has been criticised for not adapting to changes in society, health care and technology. Internationally, it is necessary to strengthen primary health care services to accommodate the growing number of patients. In Norway, emergency care patients are increasingly treated in municipal emergency care units in the primary health care system.

Norwegian public health nurses' competence areas.

Objective: To explore the competence areas of public health nurses in Norway.

Design: A qualitative and comparative design was employed.

Sample: A purposive sample of 41 public health nurses participated.

Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and doctors for treating patients in surgical wards.

Interprofessional collaboration will be one of the main factors in the effort to increase patient safety in the coming years. Research has identified several challenges to interprofessional collaboration between nurses and doctors, where fragmentation of both education and clinical practice contributes to a strong affiliation to one's own profession with little emphasis on collaboration. The aim of this study was to generate more knowledge about how nurses and doctors experience interprofessional collaboration in observation and treatment of patients on a surgical ward.

Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information.

Aim: To explore how the patient is constructed and socially positioned in discourses of web-based pathways information available to people with cancer in Norway.

Design: Mixed qualitative and quantitative design, using Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis.

Methods: The study, conducted in January 2020, examined the language of one general and six specific web-based cancer pathways information brochures.

The Nordic perspective on migration and empowerment.

International migration is a complex phenomenon that touches on a multiplicity of economic, social and security aspects affecting our daily lives. In the Nordic countries' migration is a contentious political topic as the number of migrants has significantly increased in recent decades. The aim of this study is to analyse governmental policy documents on migrants in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and to identify and compare how they are described within an empowerment perspective.

Construction of patients' position in Norway's Patients' Rights Act.

Background: Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948, human rights as set out in government documents have gradually changed, with more and more power being transferred to individual.

Objectives: The aim of this article is to analyze how the position of the patient in need of care is constructed in Norway's renamed and revised Patients' and Service Users' Rights Act (originally Patients' Rights Act, 1999) and published comments which accompanying this legislation from the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Service.

Research Design: A constructivist design was used, and Fairclough's critical discourse approach was adopted to analyze the text of the Patients' and Service Users' Rights Act and comments.

Challenges and demands in the population-based work of public health nurses.

Aims: Government programs and the Norwegian Directorate of Health give public health nurses in Norway an explicit role in population-based health promotion and disease-prevention work. The aim of this paper is to explore Norwegian public health nurses' experiences with population-based work.

Methods: A phenomenological hermeneutic approach was adopted, involving face-to-face interviews with a purposeful sample of 23 public health nurses from urban and rural districts in two counties in Norway.

Perceptions of experiences with interprofessional collaboration in public health nursing: A qualitative analysis.

In public health nursing interprofessional collaboration has become a goal, however, there is little clarity on the distribution of responsibility or approach to cooperation between the professional groups. The aim of the study was to explore public health nurses' perceptions of their experiences related to interprofessional collaboration. A qualitative content analysis was carried out.

Meanings of knowledge and identity in public health nursing in a time of transition: interpretations of public health nurses' narratives.

Background: A changing healthcare system affects the professional identity of nursing groups. Public health nursing has experienced challenges in balancing the paternalistic expert ideology and the empowerment participation ideology. A strong professional identity can legitimate nursing, and possibly influence the quality of nursing work.

The meaning of ethically charged encounters and their possible influence on professional identity in Norwegian public health nursing: a phenomenological hermeneutic study.

Background: In today's health care, new health reforms focus on market values and demands of efficiency influence health workers' professional practice. Norwegian public health nurses work mainly with healthy populations, but the children, families and young people they meet can be in vulnerable and even dependent situations. Strategies in coping with ethically challenging encounters can be important for the identity of the profession.

Contradictory discourses of health promotion and disease prevention in the educational curriculum of Norwegian public health nursing: a critical discourse analysis.

Aims: Health care is under constant change creating new and demanding tasks for public health nurses. The curriculum for public health nursing students is controlled by governmental directives that decide the structure and content of their education. This paper analyses manifest and latent discourses in the curriculum, in order to reveal underlying governmental principles for how public health nurses should promote health and prevent diseases.

The role of next of kin of patients with cancer: learning to navigate unpredictable caregiving situations.

Aims And Objectives: The aims of this study are to develop knowledge about (1) the experiences of next of kin in caring for seriously ill patients with cancer and (2) the effects of strain and support on the next of kin's ability to cope.

Background: Better treatment has resulted in patients with cancer normally living longer. Because this treatment is typically administered in a polyclinic or at home, next of kin inherit the largely unknown and demanding role of caregiver.