Student nurses' experiences of preserved dignity in perioperative practice - Part I.

Background: In recent years, operating theatre nurse students' education focussed on ethical value issues and how the patient's dignity is respected in the perioperative practice. Health professionals are frequently confronted with ethical issues that can impact on patient's care during surgery.

Objective: The objective of this study was to present what operating theatre nurse students experienced and interpreted as preserved dignity in perioperative practice.

Student nurses' experiences of undignified caring in perioperative practice - Part II.

Background: In recent years, operating theatre nurse students' education focused on ethics, basic values and protecting and promoting the patients' dignity in perioperative practice. Health professionals are frequently confronted with ethical issues that can impact on patient's care during surgery.

Objective: The objective of this study was to present what operating theatre nursing students perceived and interpreted as undignified caring in perioperative practice.

Preserved and violated dignity in surgical practice - nurses' experiences.

The aim of this article was to obtain an understanding of what is experienced as human dignity by nurses in surgical practice. In order to obtain experiences from practice, the critical incident technique was chosen. A total of 11 nurses from surgical practice wrote 49 stories about positive and negative incidents.

Concept determination of human dignity.

This study presents findings from an ontological and contextual determination of the concept of dignity. The study had a caritative and caring science perspective and a hermeneutical design. The aim of this study was to increase caring science knowledge of dignity and to gain a determination of dignity as a concept.

The unexpected force of acute stroke leading to patients' sudden death as described by nurses.

Stroke occurs suddenly and unexpectedly and its consequences can mean the difference between life and death. Research into stroke is extensive but largely focused on patients who survive. The aim of the study was to describe how nurses experience the patient's death and dying, when patients are afflicted by acute stroke and whose lives cannot be saved.

The experiences of parents of children with severe autism in connection with their children's anaesthetics, in the presence and absence of the perioperative dialogue: a hermeneutic study.

The aim of this study was to obtain an understanding of what parents of children with severe autism experience in connection with their child's anaesthetics, in the presence and absence of the perioperative dialogue. Twelve parents who had experience of their child receiving anaesthetics on one or more occasions took part in this study, in which anaesthesia care was organized as a perioperative dialogue. Data were collected by means of conversational interviews, and the text was interpreted using a hermeneutic approach.

Home: the place the older adult cannot imagine living without.

Background: Rapidly aging populations with an increased desire to remain at home and changes in health policy that promote the transfer of health care from formal places, as hospitals and institutions, to the more informal setting of one's home support the need for further research that is designed specifically to understand the experience of home among older adults. Yet, little is known among health care providers about the older adult's experience of home. The aim of this study was to understand the experience of home as experienced by older adults living in a rural community in Sweden.

The child's father, an important person for the mother's well-being during the childbirth: a hermeneutic study.

We describe Swedish mothers' experiences of having the child's father present during childbirth. A hermeneutic approach was used to collect data in various districts in southwestern Sweden. Analysis of the data acquired from 67 first-time mothers revealed one main category--the child's father becomes an important person for the mother's well-being during the childbirth.

Continuity created by nurses in the perioperative dialogue--a literature review.

This literature review analyses eight research reports dealing with perioperative dialogues conducted between patients and nurses. The aim of this study was to summarise studies concerned with the perioperative dialogue as an organisation model for bringing safe operative practices and caring into perioperative nursing, by creating continuity for both patients and nurses in perioperative praxis and its research. How do patients and perioperative nurses experience the perioperative dialogue as a model? Perioperative nursing should be perceived as a caring profession emphasising that the focus is on perioperative caring.

Habits in perioperative nursing culture.

This study focuses on investigating habits in perioperative nursing culture, which are often simply accepted and not normally considered or discussed. A hermeneutical approach was chosen as the means of understanding perioperative nurses' experiences of and reflections on operating theatre culture. Focus group discussions were used to collect data, which was analysed using hermeneutical text analysis.

Uncaring midwives.

The aim of this study was to understand how mothers experienced midwives' uncaring behaviour and actions during birth. Sixty-seven first-time mothers took part in the study, in which data were collected through interview. The interview text was analysed using hermeneutic text analysis.

The perioperative dialogue: holistic nursing in practice.

This article is a synthesis of 2 qualitative studies focusing on patients', anesthetists', and operating-room nurses' experiences of the perioperative dialogue and employing grounded theory as the method of analysis. The aim of the synthesis was to achieve a new holistic understanding of health in the perioperative dialogue. The synthesis highlights the importance of being in communion in a continuous whole due to continuity of care for the creation of health in both patients and nurses.

The development of caring in the perioperative culture: nurse leaders' perspective on the struggle to retain sight of the patient.

This article focuses on Swedish nurse leaders and is aimed at achieving a more complete and differentiated understanding of what constitutes caring in the perioperative culture as well as their knowledge and responsibility for the development of caring. Interviews with open-ended questions were conducted with 10 nurse leaders, in which they described their experiences of developing perioperative caring. The interpretation process was based on Gadamer's philosophy of hermeneutics.

The expression of caring within the perioperative dialogue: a hermeneutic study.

Background And Aim: This article, which is based on a study conducted in a perioperative context in Sweden, focuses on nurse anaesthetists' and theatre nurses' descriptions of caring and how caring becomes visible to patients in the perioperative dialogue. The perioperative dialogue is the pre-, intra- and postoperative meeting between the nurse and patient in connection with the latter's surgery.

Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 patients and 20 nurses, in which they described their experiences of perioperative dialogues.

A description of Swedish midwives' reflections on their experience of caring for teenage girls during pregnancy and childbirth.

Objective: to describe Swedish midwives' reflections on their experiences of caring for teenage girls during pregnancy and childbirth.

Design: a hermeneutical approach was used, with focus-group discussions as the method of data collection.

Setting: three focus-group discussions were conducted in a county comprising urban, suburban and rural districts in south-western Sweden.

Patients' and nurses' experiences of perioperative dialogues.

Background: Previous research has shown that perioperative visiting can aid the planning and implementation of nursing care by giving patients an opportunity to express their expectation and to receive information. This is in turn can reduce anxiety and stress. However, patients and nurses' experiences of this process have not been studied before.

A source of strength--nurses' perspectives of the perioperative dialogue.

Aim: To describe nurse anaesthetists' and theatre nurses' experiences of working with the perioperative dialogue.

Background: A new way of working in the perioperative context is the 'perioperative dialogue model', which is the meeting between the nurse and the patient before, during and after a patient's surgery.

Method: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 nurses, trained in working with the perioperative dialogue.