Publications by authors named "Britt Hansen"

Background: The primary responsibility of the operating room nurse is to prevent adverse events and patient harm during surgery. Since most preventable adverse events are the result of breakdowns in communication and teamwork, or non-technical skills, training such skills should strengthen the operating room nurses' error prevention abilities. Behavioural marker systems operationalise non-technical skills; however, previous systems for operating room nurses do not cover the full extent of non-technical skills used by operating room nurses.

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Background: Learning in placement is essential to postgraduate critical care nursing students' education. Assessment of students' competence in placement is important to ensure highly qualified postgraduate critical care nurses. The placement model applied in Norway involves students being assessed by a preceptor in practice and a teacher from the university.

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Background: Operating room nurses have specialised technical and non-technical skills and are essential members of the surgical team. The profession's dependency of tacit knowledge has made their non-technical skills difficult to access for researchers, thus, creating limitations in the identification of the non-technical skills of operating room nurses. Non-technical skills are categorised in the crew resource management framework, and previously, non-technical skills of operating room nurses have been identified within the scope of the framework.

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Aim: To develop a conceptual framework describing nursing care from the anaesthesia nurse's perspective in the perioperative context.

Background: Surgical patients find themselves in a vulnerable situation in need of advanced treatment and care. Nurse anaesthetists have a central role in reducing harm and enhance patient safety, in which person-centred care has been identified as a key component.

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Background: Hospitals worldwide have implemented Rapid Response Systems (RRS) to facilitate early recognition and prompt response by trained personnel to deteriorating patients. A key concept of this system is that it should prevent 'events of omission', including failure to monitor patients' vital signs, delayed detection, and treatment of deterioration and delayed transfer to an intensive care unit. Time matters when a patient deteriorates, and several in-hospital challenges may prevent the RRS from functioning adequately.

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Aim: We aimed to discuss the importance of the integration of nursing theories in advanced nursing to meet future demands.

Background: Nursing studies reporting a lack of professional care have increased in recent years and indicate a global complex socioecological problem. The lack of a clear theoretical understanding in education, research and practice makes Advanced Practice Nursing invisible and vulnerable.

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Objectives: The capability of a hospital's rapid response system (RRS) depends on various factors to reduce in-hospital cardiac arrests and mortality. Through system probing, this qualitative study targeted a more comprehensive understanding of how healthcare professionals manage the complexities of RRS in daily practice as well as identifying its challenges.

Methods: We observed RRS through in situ simulations in 2 wards and conducted the debriefings as focus group interviews.

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Aim: To provide an overview of assessment methods and tools to evaluate postgraduate critical care nursing students' competence in clinical placement and to identify recommendations for future assessment methods.

Background: The purpose of postgraduate critical care nursing education is to educate professional, competent and caring critical care nurses and high-quality assessment strategies in clinical placement are of most importance.

Design: An integrative review following Whittemore and Knafl's framework and Prisma 2020 guidelines for systematic reviews.

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Aim: To identify the non-technical skills of operating room nurses. This is the first empirical study that includes scrub and circulating operating room nurses.

Design: A three-round modified online Delphi technique was used for this study.

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Aim: To develop a conceptual framework of the core qualities and competencies of the intensive and critical care nurse based on the experiences of intensive care patients, their relatives and the intensive and critical care nurses.

Design: Meta-ethnography.

Data Sources: A comprehensive, systematic search in seven databases supplemented with hand, citation and reference search.

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Aims And Objectives: To explore and analyse prostate cancer survivors` experiences and critical reflections of information received during their cancer trajectory.

Background: Prostate cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers in men worldwide. Treatment causes side effects such as urinary incontinence, bowel changes and erection problems influencing sex life and manhood.

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Nursing home patients often have multiple diagnoses and a high prevalence of polypharmacy and are at risk of experiencing adverse drug events. The study aims to explore the dynamic interactions of stakeholders and work system elements in the medication administration process in a nursing home ward. Data were collected using observations and interviews.

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Background: In light of the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults and the subsequent stigmatization and health consequences, there is a need to develop effective interventions to support lifestyle change. The literature supports the key role of healthcare professionals (HPs) in facilitating self-management through lifestyle interventions for those with chronic conditions. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how HPs practice self-management support (SMS) and user involvement for persons afflicted by overweight or obesity in lifestyle interventions in primary care Healthy Life Centres (HLC).

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Background: Patients in mental care express a wish for more active participation. Shared decision-making is a way of increasing patient participation. There is lack of research into what the shared decision-making process means and how the patients can participate in and experience it in the context of mental care.

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Background: Priorities for critical care nursing research have evolved with societal trends and values. In the 1980s priorities were the nursing workforce, in 1990s technical nursing, in 2000s evidence-based nursing and in 2010s symptom management and family-centred care.

Objectives: To identify current trends and future recommendations for critical care nursing research in the Nordic countries.

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Background: Meta-analyses show that hospital rapid response systems (RRS) are associated with reduced rates of cardiorespiratory arrest and mortality. However, many RRS fail to provide appropriate outcomes. Thus an improved understanding of how to succeed with a RRS is crucial.

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WHAT IS KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT?: Several studies describe barriers and facilitators for implementing shared decision-making in mental care, yet a deeper understanding of the meaning of shared decision-making in this context is lacking. Shared decision-making is aimed at facilitating patients' active participation in their care. Mental care is intended to empower the patients by increasing their responsibility and self-awareness and helping them to use their own resources.

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Aims: The objective of this study was to expand the knowledge of the nurse role during medication administration in the context of nursing homes. The following research question guided the study:

Design: A QUAL-qual mixed study design was applied.

Methods: Data were collected using partial participant observations and semi-structured interviews of all staff members involved in medication administration.

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Background: Overweight and obesity are complex conditions, associated with a wide range of serious health issues. In contemporary society, body size is an important part of a person's self-representation. Lifestyle changes are difficult and long-term weight management is associated with a high risk of failure.

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Aim: To describe the experiences of Tanzanian nurses, how they perceive their role as a professional nurse and their experience with nursing care in a general hospital.

Design: This study is explorative, descriptive and qualitative.

Methods: The data were collected in 2015 by means of 10 semi-structured interviews and was analysed using qualitative content analysis.

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Background: Shared decision-making (SDM) is supposed to position patient and expert knowledge more equal, in which will have an impact on how mental health-care professionals relate to their patients. As SDM has not yet been widely adopted in therapeutic milieus, a deeper understanding of its use and more knowledge of interventions to foster its implementation in clinical practice are required.

Aim: To explore how mental health-care professionals describe SDM in a therapeutic milieu as expressed through clinical supervision.

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Aims And Objectives: To contribute in-depth knowledge of the characteristics of medication administration and interruptions in nursing homes. The following research questions guided the study: How can the medication administration process in nursing homes be described? How can interruptions during the medication administration process in nursing homes be characterized?

Background: Medication administration is a vital process across healthcare settings, and earlier research in nursing homes is sparse. The medication administration process is prone to interruptions that may lead to adverse drug events.

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Background: The recovery period for patients who have been in an intensive care unitis often prolonged and suboptimal. Anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder are common psychological problems. Intensive care staff offer various types of intensive aftercare.

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Aim And Objectives: To describe how Malagasy and Norwegian nursing students experience an educational exchange program in Madagascar.

Background: Previous studies show that nursing students participating in an educational exchange program enhanced their cultural knowledge and experienced personal growth. However, few studies have described two-way exchange programs, including experiences from both the hosts' and the guest students' perspectives.

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Aim And Objectives: To describe how nurses in a rural hospital in a low-income country experience working with visiting nurses from high-income countries.

Background: Nurses in low-income countries work with visiting nurses from high-income countries in various health projects. However, there is a paucity of studies examining how nurses in low-income countries experience working with nurses from such different backgrounds.

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