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.

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.

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.

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.