Publications by authors named "Ellen Ramvi"

Objective: This study explores the experiences of General Practitioners (GPs) in Norway, examining the role of care in their practice and the impact of digital health technologies on their caregiving approach.

Design: A qualitative study employing semi-structured interviews. The data was analysed by systematic text condensation.

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Background: The advent of digital health technologies has transformed the landscape of health care, influencing the dynamics of the physician-patient relationship. Although these technologies offer potential benefits, they also introduce challenges and complexities that require ethical consideration.

Objective: This scoping review aims to investigate the effects of digital health technologies, such as digital messaging, telemedicine, and electronic health records, on the physician-patient relationship.

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Background: Introducing new technologies into healthcare practices may challenge professionals' traditional care cultures. The aim of this review was to map how the 'ethics of care' theoretical framework informs empirical studies of technology-mediated healthcare.

Method: A scoping review was performed using eight electronic databases: CINAHL with full text, Academic Search Premier, MEDLINE, the Philosopher's Index, SocINDEX with Full Text, SCOPUS, APA PsycInfo and Web of Science.

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Introduction: The world's population is ageing. As older persons live longer and increase in number, society faces a greater disease burden and, in public welfare, a corresponding resource deficit. New technology is one solution to this deficit but there is scarce knowledge about ethical aspects of such innovations in care practices.

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To explore and develop understanding of nursing home staff's emotional experiences of being in a close relationship with a resident in long-term care who later died. Ethnographic fieldwork. As part of fieldwork, narrative interviews were conducted with nursing home staff ( = 6) in two nursing homes in Norway and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

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Aim: To investigate how migrant nursing home staff relate to religion in their care for patients who are approaching death.

Method And Theory: Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 migrant health care workers from five nursing homes in Norway. The overall analytic approach was hermeneutical.

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This paper investigates nursing home staff's experiences of the "final journey," when a resident's dead body is taken to the cold room. The account is based on data from ethnographic fieldwork in two nursing homes in Norway. Accompanying the dead body, staff found themselves "betwixt and between" - an anxious and ambiguous state, bordering on the uncanny.

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Background:: For the experience of end-of-life care to be 'good' many ethical challenges in various relationships have to be resolved. In this article, we focus on challenges in the nurse-next of kin relationship. Little is known about difficulties in this relationship, when the next of kin are seen as separate from the patient.

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Background: Many people confronting mental health problems are excluded from participation in paid work. Supervisor engagement is essential for successful job placement.

Objective: To elicit supervisor perspectives on the challenges involved in fostering integration to support individuals with mental health problems (trainees) in their job placement at ordinary companies.

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Background: The personal is a vital part of professional nursing practice. From a psycho-social perspective, nurses produce and reproduce conceptions of the Self through experience. A literature search on nurses' self-understanding in a psycho-social perspective yields no results.

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A fear of childbirth is a reason for a Cesarean section on request without a medical indication. The law for patients' rights in Norway does not give women the opportunity to choose a Cesarean section, only the potential to participate in the decision-making process. This requires cooperation between health professionals and patients.

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