Challenges and Strategies in Nursing Leadership: A Qualitative Study on Leaders in Mental Health Care.

Aim: To explore the challenges and strategies among new and experienced nursing leaders in mental healthcare; furthermore, to identify factors that support or hinder their leadership roles.

Background: Strong nursing leadership is crucial for the quality of patient care and is associated with higher job security and better patient outcomes. Understanding what factors contribute to effective leadership is essential for the development of future leaders.

In situ simulation training strengthened bachelor of nursing students' experienced learning and development process- a qualitative study.

Background: In advanced clinical learning labs on campus, high-fidelity simulation has become an essential educational approach in the Bachelor of Nursing Education programme. However, simulation while in clinical placement, in situ, is rarely used in Bachelor of Nursing Education. The aim of the present study was to explore how in situ simulation training at a surgical hospital ward, according to Bachelor of Nursing students, influenced their learning and development process.

Fundamental nursing care focusing on older people's needs and continuity of long-term care: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Knowledge about long-term care services ability, regardless of if the service is home-based or facility-based, to provide an optimal and comprehensive fundamental nursing care (understood as focusing on physical, relational and psychosocial needs) consistently over time is sparse. Research into nursing indicates the presence of a discontinuous and fragmented healthcare service, and that fundamental nursing care such as mobilisation, nutrition and hygiene among older people (65 years and above) seems to be, regardless of reasons, systematically rationed by nursing staff. Thus, our scoping review aims to explore the published scientific literature on fundamental nursing care and continuity of care targeting older people's needs while also describing identified nursing interventions with the same foci in a long-term care context.

Nursing care and models of care in relation to older people in long-term care contexts: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: What nurses do and how they do it can influence older people's experiences of the quality of long-term care. In addition, a clear role definition for nurses supports them in giving patients appropriate basic care. Despite this, there is a lack of a clear role definition regarding policy, work descriptions and expectations.

Nursing, frailty, functional decline and models of care in relation to older people receiving long-term care: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Older people receiving healthcare in long-term care contexts (eg, home healthcare, sheltered housing and nursing home contexts) are especially vulnerable to developing frailty and functional decline. Considering the negative effects associated with these conditions and the possibility of preventing them from progressing, it is vital that nurses possess a broad knowledge base related to them. Particularly as prevention related to these conditions lies well within their remit.

Technology-Supported Guidance Model to Support the Development of Critical Thinking Among Undergraduate Nursing Students in Clinical Practice: Protocol of an Exploratory, Flexible Mixed Methods Feasibility Study.

Background: Critical thinking is an essential set of skills in nursing education, and nursing education therefore needs a sharper focus on effective ways to support the development of these skills, especially through the implementation of technological tools in nursing education.

Objective: The aim of this study protocol is to assess the feasibility of a technology-supported guidance model grounded in the metacognition theory for nursing students in clinical practice.

Methods: Both quantitative (research questionnaires) and qualitative (focus group interviews) approaches will be used to collect data for a feasibility study with an exploratory, flexible mixed methods design to test a newly developed intervention in clinical practice.

Technological literacy in nursing education: A scoping review.

Background: Nurses are the key professionals in the introduction, implementation, and use of technology in clinical practice. A lack of technical expertise and technological understanding poses a challenge to the quality of health services and possibly to the safety, dignity, and quality of life of patients. Therefore, possessing technological literacy upon completing nursing baccalaureate studies is essential.

Technology-Supported Guidance Models Stimulating the Development of Critical Thinking in Clinical Practice: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

Background: Critical thinking is an essential skill that nursing students need to develop. Technological tools have opened new avenues for technology-supported guidance models, but the challenges and facilitators of such guidance models, as well as how they stimulate the development of critical thinking, remain unclear.

Objective: We developed a protocol for a mixed methods systematic review to investigate the use of technology-supported guidance models that stimulate the development of critical thinking in nursing education clinical practice.

A falls case summary: Application of the public health nursing intervention wheel.

Background: The Public Health Intervention Wheel (PHIW) is a population-based practice model that encompasses three levels of practice (community, systems, and individual/family) and 17 public health interventions. Each intervention and practice level contributes to improving population health. Public health nurses (PHNs) provide care at the three levels of practice.

Exploring the Use of Technology for Active Aging and Thriving.

The study explores how older adults with limited digital experience become users of tablet computers (iPad) with Internet access, and how the tablet computers become part of their daily life facilitating active aging and thriving. Volunteer adolescents were mobilised to teach and follow up the participants regularly.

Introducing Technology for Thriving in Residential Long-Term Care.

Purpose: To present an emerging innovative care model that supports participation and thriving by older adults in residential care, by introduction to new technology and mobilizing volunteer services.

Design: Qualitative, exploratory study, introducing tablet computers to 15 older adults in two municipalities.

Methods: The intervention encompassed weekly workshops over the course of 1 year with volunteer adolescents as personal tutors.

Toward a typology of technology users: how older people experience technology's potential for active aging.

This paper outlines an emerging typology of older users of information and communication technology (ICT) to facilitate active aging. Through inductive data analysis from focus groups, iterative workshops, and personal interviews, we suggest three types of technology users. These types are "the Excluded," "the Entertained," and "the Networker.

Measuring interpersonal continuity in high-frequency home healthcare services.

Aim: To provide a method for assessing the degree of interpersonal continuity adapted to context and to measure and assess the degree of interpersonal continuity for long-term recipients dependent on daily home health care.

Background: Interpersonal continuity is important to the quality of care for long-term dependents. In high-frequency home healthcare services where patients receive daily care from many nurses or other health personnel over time, interpersonal continuity may be difficult to attain.

Continuity of care in home health-care practice: two management paradoxes.

Aim:   To explore continuity of care from a manager's perspective: How do managers understand the concept of continuity of care and how do they assess continuity of care in home health-care? How do managers work to ensure continuity of care when managing care provision for patients in their homes?

Background:   Continuity of care is considered a prerequisite for service quality. Managers can influence continuity of care through managing day-to-day work.

Methods:   Semi-structured interviews of a purposive sample of 16 managers from 12 municipal units.

Quality work in long-term care: the role of first-line leaders.

Objective: To explore the first-line leaders' role in quality work in long-term care in Norway, in order to determine how that work is related to such success characteristics as leadership, staff, patients, performance, information and information technology.

Design: Cross-sectional telephone survey. The text was analysed using content analysis.

The quality of home care nurses' documentation in new electronic patient records.

Aims: The present study explores how community nurses addressed patient care in the EPR and the comprehensiveness of their documentation.

Background: The need for comprehensive nursing documentation in home health care is considerable and quality is regarded as a prerequisite for continuity of care. Documentation according to the nursing process is considered to be of good quality due to its logical structure.