Experience of Managing Countertransference Through Self-Guided Imagery in Meditation Among Healthcare Professionals.

Introduction: As a part of the therapeutic relationship, a significant, well-established predictor of outcomes in psychiatric healthcare, healthcare professionals' emotional reactions to patients may affect treatment outcomes.

Aim: The aim of our study was to explore and describe healthcare professionals' experiences with managing countertransference using skills from a training program on self-guided imagery in meditation (SIM).

Method: Following an exploratory descriptive design, we conducted qualitative interviews with 10 healthcare professionals who care for patients with mental illness and subjected the collected data to thematic content analysis.

Patient Involvement During a Pathway of Home-Based Reablement for Older Persons: A Longitudinal Single-Case Study.

Background: In recent years, home-based reablement has become an increasingly popular way to provide rehabilitation services. This health care service aims to enable older persons to live longer at home while reducing the need for institutionalization. To ensure the provision of high-quality services, there is a continual need for research on issues of user involvement and co-creation during the pathway of the reablement process.

Patient experiences with videoconferencing as social contact and in follow-up from oncology nurses in primary health care.

Patients with various forms of cancer often have unmet psychosocial support needs. By interpretative phenomenological approach, this study aimed to acquire a deeper understanding of home-living patients with cancer's experience and meaning from videoconferencing in oncological nursing follow-up in primary healthcare and contact with networks. Six patients from rural Norway participated.

Oncology nurses' lived experiences of video communication in follow-up care of home-living patients: A phenomenological study in rural Norway.

Purpose: To explore the lived experiences of oncology nurses (ONs) during three months of virtual care provided through video conferencing (VC) in the follow-up care for home-living patients with cancer in rural Norway.

Method: An exploratory study employing a descriptive phenomenological approach conducted with a purposive sample of four ONs working in primary health care in three municipalities. Individual interviews based on open-ended questions about the ONs' experiences of VC use in follow-up care were analyzed using methodology inspired by Clark Moustakas.

: a cross-sectional survey of beginning nursing students in Norway.

Background: Taking bioscience courses such as anatomy and physiology (A&P) is important for the development of nursing competence, but learning such subjects is also a challenge for many students. Nursing students' motivation, academic performance and exposure to different teaching methods may influence the learning process.

Methods: A descriptive survey was conducted with first-year nursing students at a university in Central Norway to explore their motivations, academic performance, and responses to various teaching methods used in an A&P course.

Introducing Videoconferencing on Tablet Computers in Nurse-Patient Communication: Technical and Training Challenges.

Background: This article examines personnel and patient experiences of videoconferencing (VC) trials on tablet computers between oncology certified nurses (OCNs) and patients with cancer who live at home. The study points to organizational pitfalls during the introduction process. In many different arenas, the use of VC has increased recently owing to improved Internet access and capacity.

Patient influence in home-based reablement for older persons: qualitative research.

Background: Reablement services are rehabilitation for older people living at home, being person-centered in information, mapping and the goal-setting conversation. The purpose of this study was to gain knowledge about conversation processes and patient influence in formulating the patients' goals. There are two research questions: How do conversation theme, structure and processes appear in interactions aiming to decide goals of home-based reablement rehabilitation for the elderly? How professionals' communication skills do influence on patients' participation in conversation about everyday life and goals of home-based reablement?

Methods: A qualitative field study explored eight cases of naturally occurring conversations between patients and healthcare professionals in a rehabilitation team.

Former Work Life and People With Dementia.

Twelve persons with dementia were interviewed about their former work lives. Their motivation for choosing their past work was influenced by values of their contemporary culture. Those who had come to terms with their illness had positive feelings about their past contributions in their former paid work.

Interdisciplinary collaboration experiences in creating an everyday rehabilitation model: a pilot study.

Background: When functional impairment occurs, assistance to achieve self-help can lead to qualitatively more active everyday life for recipients and better use of community resources. Home-based everyday rehabilitation is a new interdisciplinary service for people living at home. Rehabilitation involves meeting the need for interprofessional services, interdisciplinary collaboration, and coordination of services.

Life stories of people on sick leave from work because of mild mental illness, pain and fatigue.

Background: Many people experience some form of mild mental illness, chronic pain and fatigue feelings that lead to long-term absences from the workplace.

Objective: The article examines narrations about developmental experiences and adult life of people in need of back to work rehabilitation.

Methods: Narrative interviews were analyzed within a qualitative content analyses design.

Next of kin of cancer patients - challenges in the situation and experiences from a next of kin course.

Purpose: To gain more knowledge about the challenges facing the next of kin of cancer patients and how a cognitive-based course for these next of kin helps them handling the challenges they are facing.

Methods: Focus groups were used to explore the experiences, thoughts, and perceptions of the next of kin about specific challenges and their participation in the course. A thematic content analytical approach was used.

The role of next of kin of patients with cancer: learning to navigate unpredictable caregiving situations.

Aims And Objectives: The aims of this study are to develop knowledge about (1) the experiences of next of kin in caring for seriously ill patients with cancer and (2) the effects of strain and support on the next of kin's ability to cope.

Background: Better treatment has resulted in patients with cancer normally living longer. Because this treatment is typically administered in a polyclinic or at home, next of kin inherit the largely unknown and demanding role of caregiver.

Experiences of day care and collaboration among people with mild dementia.

Aims: The study was designed to assess how a day care programme once a week, for seven weeks, with group collaboration and social and cultural activities was experienced by clients. The aim was to provide some insight into how older adults with mild cognitive impairment perceive and experience day care.

Background: As a consequence of social withdrawal, older adults with mild dementia may suffer a loss of meaningful social life and mental stimulus.

Cancer nurses narrating after conversations with cancer outpatients: how do nurses' roles and patients' perspectives appear in the nurses' narratives?

Aim: The aim of this study was to contribute to knowledge of nursing practice in the cancer care field by exploring cancer nurses' perceptions of conversations with cancer outpatients.

Background: Current practice at cancer outpatient clinics in Norway is that nurses have planned conversations with patients and relatives as a follow-up after patient-physician conversations about assessment and medical treatment. Little is known about nurses' experiences of conversations in the ambulatory context.

[Evaluation of an educational program for adolescents with asthma].

Knowledge and understanding is important to the quality of life and coping ability of adolescents with bronchial asthma. Adolescents are often difficult to recruit and retain in educational programmes; the aim of this study was to develop and evaluate a modern training programme for adolescents. The two-day training programme included question sessions about asthma, lectures, videos, demonstrations, searches on the internet, counselling and group discussions.