Expanding the theoretical understanding in Advanced Practice Nursing: Framing the future.

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.

Cancer survivorship: existential suffering.

Purpose: This study aimed to explore and describe existential experiences after cancer treatment.

Method: An exploratory phenomenological hermeneutical design was used following in-depth interviews with 21 people.

Results: The study revealed experiences of multifaceted suffering in the form of limitations in everyday life, inner struggles, and bearing the burden alone.

Living With Obesity: Expressions of Longing.

Those who are obese experience complex moral distress. The norm in Western societies is to be slim, and people living with obesity experience challenges under the gaze of society. They feel great vulnerability and the available treatments seldom meet individual needs.

Life after cancer treatment - existential experiences of longing.

The study aimed to gain insight into existential longing as experienced by people treated for cancer. An exploratory phenomenological-hermeneutical design was used, and data were collected through in-depth interviews with 21 people recruited from a cancer organization. Three themes emerged: longing to be oneself, longing for relief from suffering, and longing for rootedness.

Homeworld/Alienworld: a qualitative study about existential experiences after cancer treatment.

Background: As a group, cancer survivors experience significant vulnerability and existential challenges. The biomedical approach dominating health care is insufficient to meet such existential challenges in an individualistic, holistic way.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the existential experiences of those treated for different cancers.

Abductive reasoning in nursing: Challenges and possibilities.

Abduction, deduction and induction are different forms of inference in science. However, only a few attempts have been made to introduce the idea of abductive reasoning as an extended way of thinking about clinical practice in nursing research. The aim of this paper was to encourage critical reflections about abductive reasoning based on three empirical examples from nursing research and includes three research questions on what abductive reasoning is, how the process has taken place, and how knowledge about abductive reasoning based on the examples can inform nursing research and clinical practice.

Anesthesia Professionals' Perspectives of Teamwork During Robotic-Assisted Surgery.

Robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) presents unique teamwork challenges for perioperative team members, including anesthesia professionals. The purpose of this study was to explore anesthesiologists' and nurse anesthetists' teamwork experiences during RAS using an exploratory qualitative study design involving individual semistructured interviews. Study participants expressed that teamwork during RAS is both positive and challenging, and the start-up phase is the most demanding phase of RAS in terms of teamwork.

Aspects of well-being when struggling with obesity.

We aimed to gain deeper insight into how people struggling with obesity handle their life situation by addressing how well-being might unfold. For many people, obesity becomes a lifelong condition characterized by repeated weight fluctuations while their weight increases gradually. From an existential perspective, constantly waiting for weight loss can cause an experience of not reaching one's full potential.

Putting life on hold: lived experiences of people with obesity.

Obesity presents challenges in everyday life, one of which involves the existential aspects of living life as a person with obesity. There is a need for understanding the existential experiences, but there is limited in-depth research about these experiences of people with obesity. The aim of this study was to gain deeper insight into the existential experiences of people dealing with obesity.

Living with obesity - existential experiences.

: The aim was to gain in-depth understanding about individuals' existential experiences of living with obesity. : People living with obesity face great vulnerability and existential challenges. The different treatments offered do not seem to meet the individual needs of persons with obesity.

Nurses' experiences with health care in pain clinics: A qualitative study.

Background: Recent research has focused on the effectiveness of different treatment regimens in pain clinics, where a call for more multifaceted treatment has been highlighted. Less attention has been paid to improvements within pain clinics, and how registered nurses-who usually play a key role-perceive and experience the accessibility, treatment options and follow-up offers at public pain clinics.

Objective: The overall aim was to explore and describe how nurses experience health care provided to patients with chronic non-cancer pain at pain clinics.

Mind the Gaps: A Qualitative Study Combining Patients' and Nurses' Reflections on Pain Care.

Chronic noncancer pain is a serious health problem, one that is often associated with physical debility and emotional suffering. Although chronic noncancer pain is one of the primary reasons that people seek medical care, a significant body of evidence indicates that chronic pain is underdiagnosed and undertreated. There is a consensus among professional stakeholders in pain care that there is a need to strengthen quality, capacity, and competence in pain management at all levels of health care.

Living with chronic pain: Patients' experiences with healthcare services in Norway.

Aim: To explore the experiences with healthcare received by people living with chronic nonmalignant pain in Norway.

Design: A descriptive and explorative qualitative design.

Methods: A total of 18 individual semistructured interviews was conducted in 2015.

Living a meaningful life with chronic pain - further follow-up.

Living a meaningful life with chronic pain seems to depend on the patient having the leading role in their own life. Adequate assistance from healthcare professionals should be balanced during changing circumstances. Successful follow-up demands an independent biopsychosocial-spiritual-existential perspective, where patient-centered care and a focus on resilience go together.

Next of kin's experiences of information and responsibility during their older relatives' care transitions from hospital to municipal health care.

Aims And Objectives: To gain an understanding of how next of kin experience the transition of their older relatives from hospital to municipal health care.

Background: During the care transition of their older relatives, next of kin experience a period of ill-defined roles and expectations. Successful transition lays the ground for postdischarge treatment and care, in which next of kin have important roles.

Older patients' experiences during care transition.

Background: A fragmented health care system leads to an increased demand for continuity of care across health care levels. Research indicates age-related differences during care transition, with the oldest patients having experiences and needs that differ from those of other patients. To meet the older patients' needs and preferences during care transition, professionals must understand their experiences.

Loneliness, loss, and social support among cognitively intact older people with cancer, living in nursing homes--a mixed-methods study.

Background: Loneliness is a significant psychosocial effect following a cancer diagnosis and may prevent people from engaging in social activities, thus creating difficulties in interpersonal relationships. This study investigated loneliness and social support among cognitively intact nursing home residents with cancer by using a quantitatively driven mixed-methods design with sequential supplementary qualitative components.

Methods: The quantitative component consisted of face-to-face interviews of 60 nursing home residents (≥65 years) using the one-item Loneliness Scale and the Social Provisions Scale.

Suffering and mental health among older people living in nursing homes-a mixed-methods study.

Background. Knowledge about mixed-methods perspectives that examine anxiety, depression, social support, mental health and the phenomenon of suffering among cognitively intact NH residents is scarce. We aimed to explore suffering and mental health among cognitively intact NH residents.

A cross-sectional study of self-reported general health, lifestyle factors, and disease: the Hordaland Health Study.

Background. Information on self-reported health is important for health professionals, and the aim of this study was to examine associations between lifestyle factors and self-reported health and the mediating effect of disease in a Norwegian population. Methods and Materials.

Therapeutic elements in a self-management approach: experiences from group participation among people suffering from chronic pain.

Objective: Chronic pain is a complex, multifaceted subjective experience that involves the whole person. Self-management is the dynamic and continuous process of adapting one's situation to the cognitive, behavioral, and emotional responses necessary to maintain a satisfactory quality of life. Approaches based on cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are described as appropriate in assisting people suffering from chronic pain because they challenge maladaptive beliefs and behaviors in relation to pain.

Suffering and transition strategies in adult patients attending a chronic pain management programme.

Aims And Objectives: To develop a deeper understanding of suffering and useful transition strategies in patients after participation in a chronic pain management programme.

Background: Chronic pain is a complex, multifaceted, individual experience. Limitations in patients' ability to perform their usual activities, as well as social isolation, are frequently reported.

The experience of loss in patients suffering from chronic pain attending a pain management group based on cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Chronic pain has been found to cause significant losses in the lives of those who experience it. To improve their life situation, it is important to understand the impact of these losses and manage them effectively. The aim of this study was twofold.

Exploring the information needs of patients with unexplained chest pain.

Background: Unexplained chest pain is a common condition. Despite negative findings, a large number of these patients will continue to suffer from chest pain after being investigated at cardiac outpatient clinics. Unexplained chest pain covers many possible complaints, and diagnosing a single cause for a patient's pain is often described as difficult, as there are a number of possible factors that can contribute to the condition.

Experiences with spinal cord stimulator in patients with chronic neuropathic back pain.

Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic, and disabling condition that has physical, functional, and psychosocial repercussions. Although the estimated prevalence of neuropathic pain in the general population ranges from 1.5% to 8%, neuropathic pain is frequently underdiagnosed and undertreated.

A narrative approach to explore grief experiences and treatment adherence in people with chronic pain after participation in a pain-management program: a 6-year follow-up study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore grief caused by chronic pain and treatment adherence, and how these experiences are integrated into ongoing life stories.

Methods: A 6-year follow-up using a qualitative mixed-methods design based on written narratives and image narratives was performed. Five women suffering from chronic pain comprised the purposive sample.