Older persons' expressed worries during nursing care at home: Do health complexity and nature of nursing care in the visit matter?

Objective: Older persons receiving home care express more cues and concerns compared to other clinical contexts. Increased health condition complexity requires a corresponding increase in nursing competence. The aim of this study was to explore how complexity of older persons' health and nature of the visit influenced their expressed worries.

To keep or reject, that is the question - A survey on radiologists and radiographers' assessments of plain radiography images.

Introduction: This study aimed to survey radiographers and radiologists' assessment of plain radiographs to identify the imaging clinicians' differences in acceptance of image quality.

Method: An online, questionnaire was distributed among radiographers (n = 116) and radiologists (n = 76) in a hospital trust in Norway, including 30 clinical cases (one image and a short referral text) that were divided into 3 categories; keep, could keep and reject, based on European guidelines. When rejecting, the respondents identified the main reason by ticking a list (positioning, collimation, centering, artifact or exposure error).

Emotional communication in home care: A comparison between Norway and Sweden.

Objective: Given the free movement of workers across countries, knowledge regarding communication differences between countries is imperative. In this study, we explored and compared the supportive responses of nursing staff to older persons' emotions in home care in Norway and Sweden.

Methods: The study had an observational, cross-sectional, comparative design, which included 383 audio-recorded home-care visits.

Nursing staff's responses to thematic content of patients' expressed worries: observing communication in home care visits.

Background: The aim of the study was to explore the thematic content of older persons' expressed worries in home care visits, and how nursing staff respond to different thematic contents.

Methods: The study had a descriptive, observational design, including 195 audio-recorded Norwegian home care visits with 33 nursing staff and 48 older persons. In all, 638 patient cues/concerns (worries) and subsequent nursing staff's responses were identified using Verona Coding Definitions of Emotional Sequences.

Exploring physicians' verbal and nonverbal responses to cues/concerns: Learning from incongruent communication.

Objectives: Explore physicians' verbal and nonverbal responses to cues/concerns in consultations with older-patients.

Methods: Two teams independently coded a sample of Norwegian consultations (n=24) on verbal and nonverbal dimensions of communication using VR-CoDES and NDEPT instruments. Consultations exploring older-patients' verbal emotional expressions were labeled 'Acknowledging of patients' emotional expressions', and 'Distancing from patients' emotional expressions.