Publications by authors named "Inger S Bredal"
This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a medication management program on nurses knowledge of medication management, three months after program completion. Fifty-seven nurses took a multiple-choice test both immediately after the program and three months later. Changes in test performance were assessed using McNemar's test and generalized estimating equations for binary outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Pain is a common symptom in older patients at the end of life. Little research has evaluated pain management among the oldest hospitalised dying patients.
Aims And Objectives: To compare the pain characteristics documented by healthcare workers for the young old and the oldest old hospitalised patients and the types of analgesics administered in the last three days of life.
Aims And Objectives: To gain knowledge of how women experience pain and pain treatment after breast cancer surgery and to identify areas of pain management that they believe could be improved.
Background: According to the literature, 20-60% of patients develop chronic pain after breast cancer surgery and treatment. Because of the short length of hospitalisation in Norway, breast cancer patients are left responsible for most of their own pain management.
Background: Knowledge concerning the provision of end of life care to the oldest old hospitalised patients is deficient.
Aims And Objectives: To analyse whether there were differences in registered nurses' documentation of the young old vs. the oldest old patients according to symptoms, clinical signs and treatment in the last 3 days of life.
Aims And Objectives: To assess agreement between data retrieved from interviews with nurses and data from electronic patient records (EPR) about hospitalised patients' symptoms, clinical signs and treatment during the last three days of life.
Background: Patient records have been used to map symptom prevalence in dying hospitalised patients. However, deficiencies have been found regarding nursing documentation.
Objective: This study compares the Nine Equivalents of Nursing Manpower Use Score (NEMS) to the Nursing Activities Score (NAS) in terms of characterising the nursing workload by examining and calculating the per-nurse NAS% over a 24-h period.
Method: The sample consisted of 235 patients from four volunteered for the study multidisciplinary ICUs in Norway. The daily NEMS, NAS and number of nurses who were involved in patient care per ICU were measured over one month from 2008 to 2009.
Background: Pain is a common symptom in dying patients. Previous studies have paid little attention to pain and pain control in terminally ill patients with diseases other than cancer.
Aims: This study investigated whether there were differences in healthcare workers' documentation of pain characteristics in cancer and noncancer patients.
Background: Trauma patients have impaired health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after trauma. The aim of the study was to assess HRQOL during the first year after trauma and hospital stay in trauma patients admitted to an intensive-care unit (ICU) for >24 hours compared with non-ICU trauma patients and the general population, and to identify predictors of HRQOL.
Methods: A prospective one-year follow-up study of 242 trauma patients received by the trauma team of a trauma referral centre in Norway was performed.
Objective: The purpose was to investigate whether self-reported health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) parameters at time of diagnosis and/or 1-year follow-up are prognostic for disease-free survival (DFS) in early-stage breast cancer patients.
Methods: Data from 195 women, diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, who had filled in the EORTC QLQ-C30 and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at time of diagnosis and 1 year after surgery, were analyzed.
Results: After a median follow-up of 8.
Background: The aim of the study was to investigate the level of psychologic distress after trauma and intensive care unit (ICU) stay, memory from the ICU, and predictors for psychologic distress at 12 months.
Methods: Prospective single center study in a trauma referral center for Eastern and Southern Norway. Participants were 150 trauma patients treated in an ICU for > 24 hours.
Objective: The object of the study was to examine the factor structure and the psychometric properties of the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (Mini-MAC) among a large sample of Norwegian breast cancer patients.
Methods: A total of 402 patients with breast cancer completed the Mini-MAC.
Results: Principal component analysis with varimax rotion confirmed four factors.