Relationships and dynamics in families with a child with a kidney transplant-A study of parents' everyday life experiences.

Background: Paediatric kidney transplantation is often the best choice of treatment for kidney failure with replacement therapy and represents an important change in the child's well-being. There are, however, still a number of challenges in addition to the parental role. The magnitude of intensive parental caregiving and support required by children with a kidney transplant could be disruptive to family relationships and dynamics.

Nursing care of people with dementia in an orthopaedic acute care setting: An integrative literature review.

Aims And Objectives: This integrative literature review is to collect what is known about the care of people with dementia when they require a hospital admission for an orthopaedic surgical procedure and to contribute to developing an evidence-base to support nursing practice when caring for people with dementia in an orthopaedic setting.

Background: People with a dementia diagnosis are increasingly common in acute orthopaedic care settings and the admission exposes people with dementia to risks during their hospital stay. In addition, nurses find people with dementia challenging to care for due to the complexity of dual conditions.

Parenting a child with a kidney transplant-A study of everyday life experiences.

Background: Kidney transplantation in children shows excellent long-term outcomes. However, parents feel responsible for ensuring that their child adheres to complex medical interventions. The dual role - as both parent and medical caregiver - gives rise to fatigue, stress, and emotional pain.

Siblings of children with chronic kidney disease: A qualitative study of everyday life experiences.

Background: Chronic kidney disease in children has an impact on all family members. Healthy siblings, in particular, may experience negative psychological and emotional symptoms. Little attention has been paid to how they experience everyday family life and the impact of their sibling's disease.

The lived experiences of emotionally insecure nursing students: A qualitative study.

Research shows that students who feel emotionally insecure are at risk of dropping out of nursing educational program. It is, therefore, important to support student resilience in the international nursing education. The aim of this study was to investigate the lived experiences of undergoing a nursing education as an emotionally insecure student.

The significance of relationships and dynamics in families with a child with end-stage kidney disease: A qualitative study.

Aim And Objectives: To explore experiences and the significance of relationships and dynamics among family members living with a child with severe kidney disease.

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) in children is often incurable, leading to irreversible kidney damage. End-stage kidney failure in a child impacts daily life and routines, requiring significant social adaptation for all family members.

Nurses' experiences of delivering acute orthopaedic care to patients with dementia.

Background: Nurses who care for acute patients with dementia in a hospital setting report a variety of challenges in regard to meeting the complex needs of their patients. In particular, known barriers to optimal care include a lack of knowledge about dementia, lack of dementia-friendly acute clinical environments, lack of time to care for the individual patient and a prioritised focus on the medical issues that triggered the hospitalisation. Research to date has not specifically focused on nurses' experiences of caring for people with dementia in orthopaedic wards.

Everyday life experiences in families with a child with kidney disease.

Background: Chronic kidney disease in children is a complex medical and psychosocial disease with factors that differ from the adult disease in significant ways. Among parents, there is uncertainty about disease progression and lack of confidence in caring for the child. The disease has an impact on the emotional and social well-being of the whole family.

"If only they could understand me!" Acute hospital care experiences of patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Patients with dementia as co-morbidity find hospital stays challenging, because the focus is primarily on the somatic cause for the admission, with less emphasis on the needs pertaining to dementia-related support and care. This results in poorer holistic outcomes, compared to patients without dementia, and an increased cost for the healthcare sector and, society as a whole. The quest is to make hospitals a dementia-friendly context, because this is likely to lead to better patient outcomes for people with dementia generally; however, further research is required to understand where gains may be made in this regard.

Parents' experiences of donation to their child before kidney transplantation: A qualitative study.

Aim And Objectives: To explore parents' experiences of donation to their child before kidney transplantation.

Background: Transplantation is the treatment of choice for paediatric patients with end-stage renal disease. Living donor kidney transplantation has shown a higher long-term transplant survival compared to deceased donor transplantation and entails a more controllable process, with shorter waiting time.

Patients' experiences during the first 12 weeks after discharge in fast-track hip and knee arthroplasty - a qualitative study.

Background: Due to the shortened length of stay in fast-track total hip and knee arthroplasty, patients must at a very early stage following surgery take responsibility for their postoperative care and treatment. It is important to establish if this treatment modality of fast-track is not only cost-effective, but meets patients' expectations and needs.

Aim: To explore the lived experience of patients in fast-track total hip and knee arthroplasty during the first 12 weeks after discharge.

Experiences of living kidney donors during the donation process.

Background: The shortage of organs from deceased donors has led to more living donation. Furthermore, immunological developments have made it possible to perform kidney transplantation despite preformed antibodies against the donor organ. This has led to a broader recruitment base of living donors.

Women's lived experiences of learning to live with osteoporosis: a longitudinal qualitative study.

Background: A vast amount of literature exists concerning pharmaceutical adherence in osteoporosis. However, the process of learning to live with osteoporosis over time remains largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to gain a deeper understanding of the continued process of how women learn to live with osteoporosis.

It is not just a Minor Thing - A Phenomenological-Hermeneutic Study of Patients' Experiences when afflicted by a Minor Heart Attack and Participating in Cardiac Rehabilitation.

Background: To improve cardiac care, especially cardiac rehabilitation, patients' perspectives should be better addressed. In Denmark, patients afflicted by a minor heart attack in terms of unstable angina pectoris or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction are treated in fast-track programmes with subacute treatment in hospital, early discharge and follow-up specialised outpatient cardiac rehabilitation. Knowledge of these patients' experiences of their life situation is essential to develop sufficient care protocols.

Patient experience in fast-track hip and knee arthroplasty--a qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the lived experience of patients in fast-track primary unilateral total hip and knee arthroplasty from the first visit at the outpatient clinic until discharge.

Background: Fast-track has resulted in increased effectiveness, including faster recovery and shorter length of stay to about two days after hip and knee arthroplasty. However, the patient perspective in fast-track with a median length of stay of less than three days has been less investigated.

Empowered to gain a new foothold in life--A study of the meaning of participating in cardiac rehabilitation to patients afflicted by a minor heart attack.

This study aimed to investigate what it means to patients afflicted by a minor heart attack to participate in cardiac rehabilitation (CR). CR is well-established internationally to support patients towards moving forward in satisfying, healthy, and well-functioning lives. Studies indicate that patients achieve improvement in quality of life when participating in CR.

Time delay to surgery for appendicitis: no difference between surgical assessment unit and emergency department.

Background: In Denmark, emergency departments (EDs) are replacing acute surgical and medical units. The aim of this study was to compare the trajectory of patients undergoing surgery on the suspicion of appendicitis in a surgical assessment unit (SAU) and EDs with an observation unit, respectively. The primary outcome measure was the time from hospital arrival-to-decision for surgery.

Relieved or disappointed--experiences of accepted and rejected living kidney donors: a prospective qualitative study.

Aim And Objectives: To investigate the perceived experiences and considerations among potential kidney transplantation donors in relation to acceptance or rejection as donors.

Background: Kidney transplantations are successfully performed in all Western countries, but the prevalence of patients waiting for organs from deceased donors far exceeds the number of organs available. This shortfall has promoted donation by living donors, who enter the donation process with feelings of hope, concern and patience to be accepted or rejected for donation.

From donation to everyday life: Living kidney donors' experiences three months after donation.

Background: As the number of patients with end stage kidney disease continues to rise internationally, living kidney donation remains a favourable treatment option. Long waiting times on dialysis can be avoided and short and long-term outcomes are better, when compared with deceased donor transplantation. Living kidney donation is a safe procedure for healthy individuals who have completed a rigorous screening programme.

Nursing in fast-track total hip and knee arthroplasty: A retrospective study.

Aim: To describe the increased activity in total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) from 2002 to 2012 in a single orthopaedic department, the organisation of fast-track and its consequences for nursing care.

Methods: Retrospective, descriptive design. Data collection; from the hospital administrative database, local descriptions of fast-track, personal contact and discussion with staff.

High patient satisfaction in 445 patients who underwent fast-track hip or knee replacement.

Background And Purpose: Patient satisfaction is important in fast-track total hip and knee replacement (THR, TKR). We assessed: (1) how satisfied patients were with the treatment; (2) factors related to overall satisfaction; and (3) whether there was a difference between THR and TKR regarding length of stay (LOS) and patient satisfaction.

Patients And Methods: In this follow-up study, a consecutive series of 445 patients undergoing THR and TKR completed a questionnaire 2 weeks after discharge.

Dealing with existential anxiety in exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation: a phenomenological-hermeneutic study of patients' lived experiences.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate patients' lived experiences of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation.

Background: Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation is used to enable patients with cardiac problems to move forward to lead satisfying lives. However, knowledge of patients' concerns while they follow the current programmes is sparse.

Living kidney donors' experiences while undergoing evaluation for donation: a qualitative study.

Aim And Objective: To explore living kidney donors' experiences during the donor evaluation process.

Background: Due to a shortage of organs for kidney transplantation from deceased donors, the living kidney donation rate has increased. The time period until transplantation is often shorter when using living donors compared to deceased donors.

Perspectives of patients with acute abdominal pain in an emergency department observation unit and a surgical assessment unit: a prospective comparative study.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate the patient perspective when admitted with acute abdominal pain to an emergency department observation unit compared with the perspective when admitted to a surgical assessment unit.

Background: An increase in emergency department observation units has led to more short-term admissions and has changed the patient journey from admission to specialised wards staffed by specialist nurses to stays in units staffed by emergency nurses.

Design: A comparative field study.