Older adult immigrants' experiences of being hospitalized: a qualitative study.

Background: Access to equal health services is a key issue in most European countries. In the coming years, immigrants will constitute an increasing proportion of older adults in Europe, and their need for healthcare services will likely increase. Healthcare services must prepare for such encounters to make them equitable.

Normality and compassionate care: experiences from advanced cancer patients in their last time at home.

Background: Many cancer patients prefer to receive palliative treatment at home, as it allows them to be in a familiar and comfortable environment. Integrating Advance Care Planning (ACP) into routine practice in primary healthcare helps patients and their relatives prepare for end-of-life (EoL) care in accordance with patients' preferences. This includes the option to spend their final days at home if desired.

From difficulty to meaning - Experiences of patients with advanced cancer having advance care planning conversations and a palliative care plan.

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the experiences of patients with advanced cancer with Advanced care planning (ACP) communication and drawing up a palliative plan in primary healthcare settings in Norway.

Methods: In this exploratory qualitative study, data were collected using semi-structured interviews with five patients with cancer who had undergone ACP and had a palliative care plan.

Results: The result shows three main themes with subthemes; (1) The difficult ACP conversation about cancer and death was tough, painful, and considered a "taboo.

Nurses' discursive construction of older adult immigrant patients in hospitals.

Background: The immigrant population across Europe is ageing rapidly. Nurses will likely encounter an increasing number of patients who are older adult immigrants. Moreover, access to and equal provision of healthcare is a key issue for several European countries.

Scandinavian Online Cancer Information as Expressions of Governmentality: A Comparative Qualitative Study.

We compared online distributed information provided to patients with cancer in Scandinavian countries through the lens of governmentality. A secondary comparative qualitative analysis was conducted. Discourses in online patient information showed differences in governmentality techniques across the countries: Norway used a paternalist approach, Denmark an educative approach, and Sweden an individualistic approach and expected the patients to make the "right" decisions.

Viewing the image? Ultrasound examination during abortion preparations, ethical challenges.

During preparation for early abortion in Norway, an ultrasound examination is usually performed to determine gestation and viability. This article aims to provide a deeper understanding of women's and health care personnel's (HCP) experiences with ultrasound viewing during abortion preparation in the first trimester. Qualitative in-depth interviews with women who had been prepared for early abortion and focus group interviews with HCP from gynaecological units were carried out.

From open to locked doors - From dependent to independent: Patient narratives of participation in their rehabilitation processes.

Aims And Objectives: The present study aimed to explore patients' experiences of participating in their rehabilitation process in the context of specialised rehabilitation in Norway.

Background: The rights of patients to participate in their care and treatment is an ideology that underlines newer international and Norwegian public documents. However, there is a gap between policy statements and clinical practice, and a discrepancy between patients' and professionals' statements about patient participation in rehabilitation.

Learning about user participation among nursing students: A qualitative study.

Background: User participation is an important aspect of nursing, especially within a rehabilitation setting where the emphasis is on the patient's ability to become as independent as possible. It is also decreed by law that students should learn about user participation. Furthermore, to achieve good nursing skills it is important for the students to understand "the what" and to reflect on "the how" regarding user participation.

Discursive construction of the patient in online clinical cancer pathways information.

Aim: To explore how the patient is constructed and socially positioned in discourses of web-based pathways information available to people with cancer in Norway.

Design: Mixed qualitative and quantitative design, using Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis.

Methods: The study, conducted in January 2020, examined the language of one general and six specific web-based cancer pathways information brochures.

Beyond autonomy and care: Experiences of ambivalent abortion seekers.

Background: While being prepared for abortions, some women experience decisional ambivalence during their encounters with health personnel at the hospital. Women's experiences with these encounters have rarely been examined.

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore ambivalent abortion-seeking women's experiences of their encounters with health personnel.

Construction of patients' position in Norway's Patients' Rights Act.

Background: Since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations in 1948, human rights as set out in government documents have gradually changed, with more and more power being transferred to individual.

Objectives: The aim of this article is to analyze how the position of the patient in need of care is constructed in Norway's renamed and revised Patients' and Service Users' Rights Act (originally Patients' Rights Act, 1999) and published comments which accompanying this legislation from the Norwegian Ministry of Health and Care Service.

Research Design: A constructivist design was used, and Fairclough's critical discourse approach was adopted to analyze the text of the Patients' and Service Users' Rights Act and comments.

Walking on a tightrope-Caring for ambivalent women considering abortions in the first trimester.

Aims And Objectives: To improve the understanding and competence of health personnel when caring for ambivalent pregnant women, the aim of this study was to explore the experiences of encountering women who are unsure whether to complete or terminate pregnancy.

Background: Feelings of ambivalence are present in a significant number of women preparing for abortions and may challenge the provision of health care. Health personnel have reported an ideal to be nonjudgemental and supportive.

Women's experiences when unsure about whether or not to have an abortion in the first trimester.

Abortion during the first trimester is legal in most Western countries. However, deciding to terminate a pregnancy is a challenging process, and some women arrive at the abortion clinic still not absolutely certain. We explored the experiences of 13 pregnant Norwegian women struggling to finalize their decision, interviewing them before and after their decision.

A comparison of the discursive practices of perception of patient participation in haemodialysis units.

Background: According to Norwegian law, nurses are obligated to provide an acceptable level of health assistance to patients and their family members and to allow patients and their family members to participate in the planning of patient care and treatment.

Aim: The aim of this study is to compare the perceptions of older patients undergoing haemodialysis treatment and of their next of kin and of nurses regarding patient participation in the context of haemodialysis treatment.

Research Design: The study adopts an approach that is both comparative and explorative in nature by examining the narratives of patients, nurses and next of kin and by performing critical discourse analysis as outlined by Fairclough.

Nurses' perceptions of patient participation in hemodialysis treatment.

The aim of this study is to explore how nurses perceive patient participations of patients over 75 years old undergoing hemodialysis treatment in dialysis units, and of their next of kin. Ten nurses told stories about what happened in the dialysis units. These stories were analyzed with critical discourse analysis.

The next of kin of older people undergoing haemodialysis: a discursive perspective on perceptions of participation.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study conducted to explore how the family members of older people who will undergo haemodialysis treatment for the rest of their lives perceive participation.

Background: The rights of families to participate in treatment and health care are supported by international law, and by national law in Norway since 1999.

Method: This study, which employed an explorative qualitative approach, was carried out in Norway in 2008.

Perceptions of patient participation amongst elderly patients with end-stage renal disease in a dialysis unit.

Aim: A patient's right to influence treatment and health care has been guaranteed by Norwegian law since 1999. The aim of this study was to explore how elderly patients with end-stage renal disease who are undergoing treatment with haemodialysis for the rest of their lives perceive patient participation in a dialysis unit.

Methods: This study, which was inspired by critical discourse analysis, drew on data derived from transcribed interviews with 11 patients.