Weight development from childhood to motherhood-embodied experiences in women with pre-pregnancy obesity: a qualitative study.

Background: Pre-pregnancy obesity increases the risk of perinatal complications. Post-pregnancy is a time of preparation for the next pregnancy and lifestyle advice in antenatal care and postpartum follow-up is therefore recommended. However, behavioral changes are difficult to achieve, and a better understanding of pregnant women's perspectives and experiences of pre-pregnancy weight development is crucial.

Community paramedicine: cost-benefit analysis and safety evaluation in paramedical emergency services in rural areas - a scoping review.

Objective: To examine the current knowledge and possibly identify gaps in the knowledge base for cost-benefit analysis and safety concerning community paramedicine in rural areas.

Design: Scoping review.

Data Sources: MEDLINE via PubMed, CINAHL, Cochrane and Embase up to December 2020.

Interprofessional care for the ICU patient's family: solitary teamwork.

The aim of this study was to explore how interprofessional family care by ICU teams was reflected in their daily work. Data were collected from four ICUs in Norway. Fieldwork and focus groups with ICU nurses and physicians were conducted in addition to dyadic and individual interviews of surgeons and internists.

Professionals' narratives of interactions with patients' families in intensive care.

ICU patients' family members are in a new, uncertain, and vulnerable situation due to the patient's critical illness and complete dependence on the ICU nurses and physicians. Family members' feeling of being cared for is closely linked to clinicians' attitudes and behavior. To explore ICU nurses' and physicians' bedside interaction with critically ill ICU patients´ families and discuss this in light of the ethics of care.

'I want to get back!' A qualitative study of long-term critically ill patients' inner strength and willpower: Back home after long-term intensive care.

Aims And Objectives: To provide insights into what promotes and challenges inner strength and willpower in formerly critically ill patients back home after a long-term ICU stay.

Background: Critically ill patients demand great resources during an ICU stay, some experience great challenges after discharge from hospital. Knowledge about how health professionals can promote former long-term critically ill patients' inner strength and willpower after discharge is essential, but still missing.

A qualitative study of long-term ICU patients' inner strength and willpower: Family and health professionals as a health-promoting resource.

Aims And Objectives: To explore how the presence of family and health professionals influences long-term critically ill patients' inner strength and willpower as an incitement to keep fighting for recovery.

Background: This study reports long-term critically ill patients' experiences of family and health professionals as health-promoting resources in terms of significance for their inner strength and willpower. Earlier research on this topic is scarce.

Community paramedicine-cost-benefit analysis and safety with paramedical emergency services in rural areas: scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Community paramedicine models have been developed around the world in response to demographic changes, healthcare system needs and reforms. The traditional role of the paramedic has primarily been to provide emergency medical response and transportation of patients to nearby medical facilities. As a response to healthcare service gaps in underserved communities and the growing professionalisation of the workforce, the role of community paramedicine has evolved as a new model of care.

Information concerning ICU patients' families in the handover-The clinicians' «game of whispers»: A qualitative study.

Aims And Objectives: To explore how information concerning ICU patients´ families is included in the ICU clinicians' daily handover.

Background: Handover refers to the transfer of information and care responsibility between clinicians. An effective and precise handover are of great importance to ensure quality of care.

Postpartum lifestyle interventions among women with pre-eclampsia: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Compared to women with normotensive pregnancies, women with a history of pre-eclampsia have a roughly fourfold increased risk of developing chronic arterial hypertension and a twofold increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD). Lifestyle changes, such as increased physical activity, weight loss, smoking cessation and healthy diet, are effective for CVD prevention in the general population. However, no scoping review or systematic review of postpartum lifestyle interventions among women with pre-eclampsia have, to our best knowledge, been performed.

Implementing a healthy postpartum lifestyle after gestational diabetes or preeclampsia: a qualitative study of the partner's role.

Background: Women with preeclampsia (PE) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are at increased risk for later cardiovascular disease, and lifestyle measures are recommended to prevent subsequent disease. Partner support has been shown to be important in lifestyle modification in other diseases, but there is a lack of knowledge of partner involvement in PE and GDM. The aim of this study was to explore the partner's experiences and knowledge of gestational diseases, and how the partner wishes to contribute to lifestyle change.

Preeclampsia, gestational diabetes and later risk of cardiovascular disease: Women's experiences and motivation for lifestyle changes explored in focus group interviews.

Background: Preeclampsia (PE) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) are both associated with increased risk of future cardiovascular disease (CVD). Knowledge of the relationship between these pregnancy complications and increased CVD risk enables early prevention through lifestyle changes. This study aimed to explore women's experiences with PE and/or GDM, and their motivation and need for information and support to achieve lifestyle changes.

"Never in my mind to give up!" A qualitative study of long-term intensive care patients' inner strength and willpower-Promoting and challenging aspects.

Aims And Objectives: To explore aspects that promote and challenge long-term ICU patients' inner strength and willpower.

Background: Considerable research has been devoted to ICU patients' experiences; however, research on long-term ICU patients is limited. Studies in a health-promoting perspective focusing on long-term ICU patients' inner strength and willpower are scarce.

From breaking point to breakthrough during the ICU stay: A qualitative study of family members' experiences of long-term intensive care patients' pathways towards survival.

Aims And Objectives: To explore family members' experiences of long-term intensive care unit (ICU) patients' pathways towards survival and to highlight family members' efforts to promote the patient's health during the ICU stay.

Background: Although considerable research has been devoted to the substantial burden of long-term ICU patients, less attention has been paid to health-promoting factors that facilitate patients' health and survival during ICU stays. Support from family members can improve patient outcome.

The breath of life. Patients' experiences of breathing during and after mechanical ventilation.

Introduction: Breathlessness is a prevalent and distressing symptom in intensive care, underestimated by nurses and physicians. Therefore, to develop a more comprehensive understanding of this problem, the study had two aims: to compare patients' self-reported scores of breathlessness obtained during mechanical ventilation (MV) with experiences of breathlessness later recalled by patients and: to explore the lived experience of breathing during and after MV.

Method: A qualitatively driven sequential mixed method design combining prospective observational breathlessness data at the end of a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) and follow up data from 11 post-discharge interviews.

Underestimation of Patient Breathlessness by Nurses and Physicians during a Spontaneous Breathing Trial.

Rationale: Breathlessness is a prevalent and distressing symptom in intensive care unit patients. There is little evidence of the ability of healthcare workers to assess the patient's experiences of breathing. Patient perception of breathing is essential in symptom management, and patient perception during a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) might be related to extubation success.

Perceived decisional responsibility for mechanical ventilation and weaning: a Norwegian survey.

Aim: To explore variability in perceptions of nurse managers and physician directors regarding roles, responsibilities and clinical-decision making related to mechanical ventilator weaning in Norwegian intensive care units (ICUs).

Background: Effective teamwork is crucial for providing optimal patient care in ICU. More knowledge on nurses' and physicians' perceptions of responsibility in clinical decision-making for mechanical ventilation is needed.

'In a way, you have to pull the patient out of that state …': the competency of ventilator weaning.

The introduction of the weaning protocol has reduced weaning time and improved results in patients. However, the evidence is inconsistent. This may reflect that the use of a protocol should not exclude individual considerations and clinical judgement.

Decisional responsibility for mechanical ventilation and weaning: an international survey.

Introduction: Optimal management of mechanical ventilation and weaning requires dynamic and collaborative decision making to minimize complications and avoid delays in the transition to extubation. In the absence of collaboration, ventilation decision making may be fragmented, inconsistent, and delayed. Our objective was to describe the professional group with responsibility for key ventilation and weaning decisions and to examine organizational characteristics associated with nurse involvement.

[Evaluation of the compulsory practice period for doctors in Norwegian hospitals].

Background: The Norwegian Internship Council has uncovered weaknesses associated with the compulsory practice period in hospitals for doctors, both on a national basis and for North Trøndelag County.

Material And Methods: In 2007 and 2008, 79% (859) of all interns in Norwegian hospitals participated in the Council's national evaluation of the practice period. We compared the results from interns serving at hospitals in Levanger and Namsos (North Trøndelag) (n = 39) with those from interns serving at the other hospitals in Norway (n = 820).