Nurses' experiences of prehospital care encounters with children in pain.

Background: Pain relief in children is a complex issue, partly an ethical dilemma and due to a lack of nursing competence. There are few studies regarding prehospital care encounters with children in pain.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe nurses' experiences in prehospital care encounters with children in pain and the specific related challenges.

Registered nurses' experiences of their decision-making at an Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre.

Aims And Objectives: To describe registered nurses' experiences at an Emergency Medical Dispatch Centre.

Background: It is important that ambulances are urgently directed to patients who are in need of immediate help and of quick transportation to a hospital. Because resources are limited, Emergency Medical Dispatch centres cannot send ambulances with high priority to all callers.

Reliability of a Swedish pre-hospital dispatch system in prioritizing patients.

The need of emergency help often begins with a call to a dispatch center. The operator uses a medical index to prioritize dispatches. Since the resources of ambulances are limited, it is important that the priority grading decided by the operator at the dispatch center is as adequate as possible.