A comparative review of advanced practice nurse programmes in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Background: Advanced practice nurses (APNs) programs are career-development opportunities significant for nursing workforce retention as well as for the quality of patient care. Inconsistency regarding policy, education, titles, scope of practice, skills and competencies have been identified as major challenges in developing advanced practice nursing in Europe. APN roles and education are under development in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Nursing research priorities based on CINAHL database: A scoping review.

Aim: To analyse nursing research based on the CINAHL database to identify research priorities for nursing.

Design: A scoping literature review was conducted. The CINAHL Plus (EBSCO) Full Text was searched between 2012-2018.

The voice of paediatric oncology nurses: A longitudinal diary study of professional development.

Purpose: There is a limited amount of studies with results on professional development of paediatric oncology nurses. This study seeks to increase the understanding of the factors associated with the professional development of paediatric oncology nurses through the continuous education programme from the paediatric nurses' perspective.

Method: The descriptive, qualitative study used the text of participants' electronic diaries as data during a two-year continuing professional education programme in 2016-2018.

Families in Paediatric Oncology Nursing: Critical Incidents From the Nurses' Perspective.

Purpose: Paediatric oncology nurses encounter challenges with families on a daily basis. This study explores how nurses describe significant incidents when encountering families and family members during the child's hospitalisation in the paediatric oncology unit.

Design And Methods: A qualitative study with a phenomenological approach in which 17 paediatric oncology nurses from three different hospitals described critical incidents related to families.

Mental health service users' and professionals' relationship with games and gaming.

Background: Games and elements of gamification can be utilized in mental healthcare to provide customized interventions for the service users. However, very little evidence exists as to what kind of experiences service users and professionals have towards games and gaming, and what their perceptions of the phenomenon are. This sort of information is needed to help professionals put game-based interventions actively into practice in mental health services.

Gamification in Healthcare: Perspectives of Mental Health Service Users and Health Professionals.

The purpose of this descriptive qualitative study is to explore the perceptions and experiences that mental health service users (n = 10) and healthcare professionals (n = 32) have regarding the use of gamification in mental health care. Data was gathered by interviews. The mental health service users described promoting and retarding factors in the use of gamification, while professionals described the requirements for using gamification and changes occurring in the work culture.

Growth of nurse prescribing competence: facilitators and barriers during education.

Aims And Objectives: To describe facilitators and barriers in relation to the growth of nurse prescribing competence from the perspective of the nurses studying in a prescribing programme.

Background: The number of nurses enrolled in a nurse prescribing programme is rapidly increasing in Finland. However, few studies on nurse prescribing education are available and therefore research is needed, particularly from the point of view of nurses studying in the programme.

Perspectives on enhancing international practical training of students in health and social care study programs - A qualitative descriptive case study.

Background: Internationalization of practical training in health and social care study programs is an important aspect of higher education. However, field mentors' and classroom teachers' competence in guiding culturally diverse students varies widely in European countries, and the majority does not have enough training in guiding foreign students.

Objectives: This study aimed to examine which factors enhance the efficacy of international practical placement experiences in health and social care study programs.

Reviewing the methodology of an integrative review.

Background: Whittemore and Knafl's updated description of methodological approach for integrative review was published in 2005. Since then, the five stages of the approach have been regularly used as a basic conceptual structure of the integrative reviews conducted by nursing researchers. However, this methodological approach is seldom examined from the perspective of how systematically and rigorously the stages are implemented in the published integrative reviews.

A patient as a self-manager of their personal data on health and disease with new technology--challenges for nursing education.

Background: Digital technologies have transformed nearly every aspect of our lives. However, for many of us, they have not yet improved the way we receive or participate in our health services and disease care. Hostetter et al.

Ethical concerns and dilemmas of Finnish and Dutch health professionals.

Background: Healthcare professionals encounter ethical dilemmas and concerns in their practice. More research is needed to understand these ethical problems and to know how to educate professionals to respond to them.

Research Objective: To describe ethical dilemmas and concerns at work from the perspectives of Finnish and Dutch healthcare professionals studying at the master's level.

Exchanging expertise, theory and practice at Master's level healthcare education between Russia and Finland - experiences from an intensive course in St. Petersburg.

The aim of this article is to raise discussion on the internationalisation possibilities of master's students who study while working. The objective of the article is to describe and share experiences on how to make the development of students' internationalisation competence possible through collaboration with representatives of different cultures during a one-week intensive course. Internationalisation is an essential component in the competence-based curriculum of master's level social and healthcare education.

The diversity of family health: constituent systems and resources.

The purpose of this study was to explore changes in family health associated with child's chronic illness and hospitalization. The aim was to answer the following questions: (i) What kind of changes do families experience when a child in the family is afflicted by a chronic illness; and (ii) What kind of changes do families experience when their child is admitted to hospital? The data were collected in 2002 in interviews with 29 such families whose children were receiving treatment or who had previously received treatment on the paediatric wards of two hospitals in Finland. Data were collected until reaching theoretical saturation, in which no additional data are found.

Child in hospital: family experiences and expectations of how nurses can promote family health.

Aims And Objectives: This study set out to explore, from the family's point of view, ways in which nursing staff can promote family health during the child's hospital stay.

Background: Having a child in hospital is a major source of stress and anxiety for the whole family. Earlier studies have described parental coping strategies, ways to strengthen those strategies and to support parental participation in child care, but no one has studied the promotion of family health during the child's hospitalization from the family's point of view.

Promoting health for families of children with chronic conditions.

Aim: This paper reports a study whose aim was to describe how nurses in a paediatric unit promote the health of families of children with chronic conditions during the children's hospitalization.

Background: It is stressful for a family when a child has a chronic condition and hospitalized. Nurses have the opportunity to promote family health while a child is hospitalized, and previous studies contain a wealth of recommendations on how this should be done.

Family health in everyday life: a qualitative study on well-being in families with children.

Family health in everyday life: a qualitative study on well-being in families with children¶This article describes the subjective health views of young Finnish families with children. The data were collected in unstructured focused interviews with 19 families, most of whom were interviewed twice. Set within a phenomenological-hermeneutic framework, the study applies a qualitative method in order to uncover the meanings attached by the families to different facets of their everyday life.