Publications by authors named "Lena Junehag"

Introduction: Ambulance nurses' (ANs) feel less confident treating children. According to the United Nations Convention on Child Rights, there is a provision to safeguard children's rights. Child-Centered Care (CCC) strives to lift children's voices in healthcare.

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Background: Care encounters with children are a challenging and important task, but opportunities for such encounters are rarely available. Therefore, ambulance nurses (ANs) face difficulties in gaining experience in properly handling children, which can lead to stress for the ANs. A deeper understanding of ANs' emotions through the course of the care encounter is needed.

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Background: Pain relief in children is a complex issue, partly an ethical dilemma and due to a lack of nursing competence. There are few studies regarding prehospital care encounters with children in pain.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe nurses' experiences in prehospital care encounters with children in pain and the specific related challenges.

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Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe individuals' perceptions of the psychosocial consequences of an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and of their access to support one year after the event.

Methods: The study included 20 participants (14 men and six women) who lived in rural areas and had experienced their first AMI. Eleven were offered contact with a mentor.

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After an acute myocardial infarction (AMI), people are encouraged to adopt a healthy lifestyle. But they are not always motivated to maintain the necessary lifestyle changes and need the right support to do it. In sparsely populated areas, people afflicted by an AMI have difficulty in finding standard rehabilitation programmes near their homes during the recovery, so they need alternative forms of support.

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