Publications by authors named "Kari Kaldestad"
Article Synopsis
- Nurses caring for individuals with substance use disorders (SUD) must address complex physical, existential, and spiritual needs, requiring a strong ethical foundation.
- The study aimed to uncover the ethical principles and values that guide nurses in their care for these clients, using a hermeneutical approach to analyze focus-group interviews.
- Findings indicated that nurses are motivated by a desire to be useful, driven by compassion and a commitment to being advocates for their clients, which reflects the core value of neighborly love in their work.
Background And Aim: Previous studies show that life transitions can have negative effects on men's lives and lead to health problems and meaninglessness in life. This study aims to deepen the understanding of men's health by exploring the movement between suffering of life and meaning in life when experienced life transitions.
Theoretical Framework: The study is anchored in Eriksson's caritative caring theory.
Dignity is an important ideal in the nursing of older women who need municipal care. Dignity can be challenged when health is impaired by feeling grief and suffering associated with bodily changes and impaired functions.The study aimed to deepen the understanding of the meaning of dignity in the life of fragile older women who daily needed help from municipal care service.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The starting point is that ethical competence is the basis for ethical healthcare practices and quality of care. Simultaneously, there is a need for research and development from a holistic multi-professional perspective.
Aim: The aim is to create a proposed model for multi-professional ethical competence grounded in clarified meanings and dimensions of ethical competence studied from a multi-professional healthcare perspective.
Background: A renewed interest in nursing homes as clinical placement settings for nursing students has been prompted by the growing healthcare needs of an ageing population. However, if future nurses are to be enthusiastic about working in this healthcare context, it is essential that higher education institutions that educate nurses and nursing homes that provide placement experiences to students do so with a supportive, positive, and enriched approach.
Methods: To explore first-year nursing students' placement experience in nursing homes, we conducted an exploratory qualitative study in three city-based nursing homes in western Norway.