'Both assistant and specialist': Nurse Anaesthetists' experiences of being relocated during the COVID-19 pandemic: A qualitative study.

Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the experiences of nurse anaesthetists being relocated during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design: The study has a qualitative design.

Methods: A total of 12 nurse anaesthetists from four different hospitals were included.

The association between patient safety culture and adverse events - a scoping review.

Background: Adverse events (AEs) affect 10% of in-hospital patients, causing increased costs, injuries, disability and mortality. Patient safety culture (PSC) is an indicator of quality in healthcare services and is thus perceived as a proxy for the quality of care. Previous studies show variation in the association between PSC scores and AE rates.

Educating for Excellence: A Cohort Study on Assessing Student Nurse Anesthetist Non-Technical Skills in Clinical Practice.

Non-technical skills play an integral role in providing safe and excellent anesthesia. Currently there is little standardization in the assessment of non-technical skills in clinical practice, although various instruments exist. The aim of this study was to explore the use of the Nurse Anaesthetists' Non-Technical Skills-Norway (NANTS-no) structured assessment instrument in developing and assessing non-technical skills in clinical practice.

"The Worst Is the Worry": Importance of Preoperative Preparation of Preschool Children.

Children often experience a high level of anxiety before anesthesia, which may lead to poor cooperation during anesthesia induction and negative consequences for the postoperative period. The aim of this study was to obtain knowledge that may improve practice in preparing preschoolers for anesthesia and surgery by analyzing nurse anesthetists' preoperative experiences with children. A focus group interview with nurse anesthetists was conducted.

Students' top 10 priorities of research uncertainties on students' sleep: a pragmatic James Lind Alliance approach.

Objectives: Inspired by the James Lind Alliance (JLA) user involvement approach, the aim of the present study was to identify the top 10 uncertainties for sleep research raised by students in higher education, and to discuss our experiences with adapting the JLA method to a student population.

Design: The study design is a pragmatic JLA approach, including a priority setting partnership within the field of sleep, collection of sleep-related research uncertainties as reported by students in higher education, sorting of the uncertainties and a final identification of the top 10 uncertainties through collaborative work between researchers, students, stakeholders and experts in the field. Uncertainties were collected using a one-question online survey: 'as a student, which question(s) do you consider to be important with regards to sleep?'.

Association between self-perceived pain sensitivity and pain intensity after cardiac surgery.

Background And Purpose: Cardiac surgical pain remains a clinical challenge affecting about 40% of individuals in the first six months post-cardiac surgery, and continues up to two years after surgery for about 15-20%. Self-perceived sensitivity to pain may help to identify individuals at risk for persistent cardiac surgical pain to optimize health care responses. The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between self-perceived pain sensitivity assessed by the Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire (PSQ) and postoperative worst pain intensity up to 12 months after cardiac surgery.

Validation of the Norwegian Pain Sensitivity Questionnaire.

Background And Purpose: There is a large variation in people's reactions to painful stimuli. Although some conditions are more painful, the variation between people is larger than the reaction to pain across conditions. Induced experimental pain is one way to assess some aspects of these differences in pain perception.

A review of self-rated generic quality of life instruments used among older patients receiving home care nursing.

In the last two decades, quality of life and health-related quality of life have become commonly used outcome measures in the large number of studies evaluating healthcare and home care nursing. The objective of this systematic search and review was to evaluate studies that include self-rated generic quality of life instrument used among elderly patients receiving home care nursing. Searches were conducted in Medline, Embase, PsycINFO and Cinahl for articles published between January 2005 and June 2016, with 17 studies in eight countries meeting the inclusion criteria and assessed for quality.

Cues and clues predicting presence of symptoms of depression in stroke survivors.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate to what extent self-reported cues about lack of treatment or concerns about inadequate health care from stroke survivors were associated with symptoms of depression.

Background: Stroke survivors are prone to depression, and thus, any easily available cues which may inform healthcare workers about patients' mental well-being are potentially important. This study investigates whether two such cues - Cue 1 the subjectively reported lack of access to rehabilitation, and more generally, Cue 2 an expressed concern that their healthcare needs may not be adequately met - may be clinically relevant to be on the outlook for.

Comparison of Oncology Patients' and Their Family Caregivers' Attitudes and Concerns Toward Pain and Pain Management.

Background: Both cancer patients and their family caregivers (FCs) report concerns about pain and pain management. When dyads share appraisal of the illness context, they may experience better dyadic adjustment.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare oncology outpatients' and their FCs' attitudes and concerns toward pain and pain management.

Acupuncture versus usual care for postoperative nausea and vomiting in children after tonsillectomy/adenoidectomy: a pragmatic, multicentre, double-blinded, randomised trial.

Objectives: To investigate the effect of a standardised acupuncture on nausea and vomiting in children after tonsillectomy with or without adenoidectomy when possible placebo effects were precluded.

Methods: A pragmatic, multicentre, double-blinded, randomised controlled trial. The study was conducted over 10 months in 2012-2013 at three ambulatory clinics.

The PRO-SELF(©) Pain Control Program improves patients' knowledge of cancer pain management.

Context: Inadequate knowledge is one barrier to effective cancer pain management.

Objectives: This study's aim was to evaluate the effects of a psychoeducational intervention (the Norwegian version of the PRO-SELF(©) Pain Control Program) compared with a control group in increasing patients' knowledge of cancer pain management.

Methods: Adult oncology outpatients with pain from bone metastasis of 2.

Does the cancer patient's disease stage matter? A comparative study of caregivers' mental health and health related quality of life.

Objective: Cancer affects both patients and their caregivers. Caregiver burden may change during different stages of the patients' cancer trajectory. Limited research has focused on the impact of being a caregiver, assessed by the caregiver's mental health and quality of life (QOL) during the curative and the palliative phases of the patient's disease.

Symptoms in the cancer patient: of importance for their caregivers' quality of life and mental health?

Purpose: To examine the level of symptom burden in a sample of cancer patients in a curative and palliative phase. In addition to determine a) whether the patients' symptom burden and patients' demographic variables, and b) the caregivers' demographic variables' impact on the caregivers' quality of life and mental health.

Method: This descriptive, cross-sectional study combines data from two samples.

Cancer patients' barriers to pain management and psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Barriers Questionnaire II.

The Barriers Questionnaire II (BQ-II) was developed to assess barriers to effective pain management. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the BQ-II in a sample of Norwegian cancer patients. The BQ-II was translated into Norwegian and pilot tested with eight oncology outpatients.

Prevalence rates for and predictors of self-reported adherence of oncology outpatients with analgesic medications.

Objectives: Inadequate adherence with an analgesic regimen may be a reason why oncology patients experience unrelieved pain. However, only a limited number of studies have evaluated the prevalence rates for adherence and no studies have attempted to determine predictors of adherence in patients with cancer pain. On the basis of concepts from the Health Belief Model, the purposes of this study were to describe oncology outpatients' level of adherence with an analgesic regimen and to evaluate the direct and indirect effects of selected demographic variables, pain characteristics, barriers to pain management, and self-efficacy (SE) on adherence with an analgesic regimen.

Demographic, clinical, and pain characteristics are associated with average pain severity groups in a sample of oncology outpatients.

Unlabelled: Cut-points (CP) for pain severity are useful because they may help clinicians to identify patients with clinically significant pain. However, a need exists to evaluate whether different pain severity groups differ on selected demographic, clinical, and pain characteristics, as well as on factors that may be amenable to psychoeducational interventions such as self-efficacy for pain management, coping strategies, and barriers to pain management. In this cross-sectional study of 210 oncology outpatients with pain, an optimal CP of 4 was found using ratings of average pain intensity.

Self-reported prevalence, etiology, and characteristics of pain in oncology outpatients.

Purpose: To determine the self-reported prevalence rates for cancer, non-cancer, and both cancer and non-cancer pain and to determine if there were differences in demographic, clinical, and pain characteristics among the three pain groups.

Methods: Patients were screened in outpatient oncology clinics for the presence of pain and/or analgesic use. Patients who reported pain completed the study questionnaires.