Sleep in the intensive care unit - nurses' documentation and patients' perspectives.

Background: Inability to sleep is one of the most distressing factors for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Sleep is perceived as light and awakenings are numerous. Nurses' documentations of sleep are narrow, mainly concentrating on the quantity and general quality.

Keeping cancer patients informed: a challenge for nursing.

The aim of this study was to find out how much information cancer patients feel they get from nurses and physicians; how that information is provided; and what other sources patients use in their search for information. Also, the meaning of information was surveyed. The sample comprised 273 cancer patients.

Cancer patients' decision-making regarding treatment and nursing care.

Background: Patient participation in decision-making has produced many debates among health care professionals. The research evidence concerning patient participation in decision-making is not clear, and shows conflicting results.

Aims: To identify to what extent cancer patients participate in decision-making and to what extent background characteristics, information obtained and relationships with staff explain cancer patients' participation in decision-making.