Publications by authors named "Kirsti Torjuul"
Aims And Objectives: To observe student nurses' overall and moment-specific hand hygiene compliance during clinical placement.
Background: Hand hygiene is the single most important measure to prevent healthcare-associated infections. However, research has shown low compliance among healthcare workers.
This paper explores the issue of life and its relevance to nursing, through Aristotle's philosophy and an Aristotelian interpretation of Nightingale's Notes on Nursing. Life as process and becoming has ontological status in Aristotle's philosophy and this dynamism is particularly relevant for nursing. The paper presents aspects of Aristotle's philosophy of life: his account of life as inherent powers of the individual, his analysis of change and time, and his understanding of sickness and health as qualitative states of living beings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper explores the relationship between temporal continuity in nursing and temporal features of sickness. It is based on phenomenological and hermeneutical philosophy, empirical studies of sickness time, and the nursing theories of Nightingale, of Benner and of Benner and Wrubel. In the first part, temporal continuity is defined as distinct from interpersonal continuity.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTen nurses at a university hospital in Norway were interviewed as part of a comprehensive investigation into the narratives of nurses and physicians about being in ethically difficult situations in surgical units. The transcribed interview texts were subjected to a phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation. The main theme in the narratives was being close to and moved by the suffering of patients and relatives.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: This paper describes a study of the kinds of ethical difficulties nurses face in the process of care in surgical units.
Background: Nurses face ethically difficult situations in trying to find the most appropriate actions to take for patients. Differences of opinion with doctors about the treatment and care of patients and conflicts between nurses' value systems and those in the organization where they are employed are described as sources of ethical difficulty.
Aim: To illuminate the experience of being a patient and cared for in an acute care ward.
Background: Patients may be the best source of information for assessing the quality of care in acute care wards. Studies often show that patients' satisfaction with their hospital stay is interpreted by managers and care providers as a measure for quality of care.
Aim: The aim of this study was to illuminate the meaning of being in ethically difficult situations when caring for older people, as experienced by male nurses.
Background: Nurses and physicians are frequently faced with ethical issues and challenges in their work with older people in hospitals. Male nurses are a minority group in the nursing profession, thus it is important to listen to their lived experiences of the ethical challenges they are faced with in their work.
Background: The aim of this study was to describe the kinds of ethical dilemmas surgeons face during practice.
Methods: Five male and five female surgeons at a University hospital in Norway were interviewed as part of a comprehensive investigation into the narratives of physicians and nurses about ethically difficult situations in surgical units. The transcribed interview texts were subjected to a phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation.
Background: The aim of this study was to explore the ethical challenges in surgery from the surgeons' point of view and their experience of being in ethically difficult situations.
Methods: Five male and five female surgeons at a university hospital in Norway were interviewed as part of a comprehensive investigation into the narratives of nurses and physicians about being in such situations. The transcribed interview texts were subjected to a phenomenological-hermeneutic interpretation.