How did nurses cope with the fast, comprehensive organisational changes at Danish hospital wards during the COVID-19 pandemic? An interview study based on nurses' experiences.

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced hospital work and healthcare workers all over the world. We explored how Danish nurses coped with the fast, comprehensive organisational changes in their workplace and identified barriers to and facilitators for organisations ensuring the best possible conditions for nurses to meet these challenges. The study focuses on the organisational setting and how it did or did not support the nurses in their work.

A cross-sectional study of COVID-19 pandemic-related organizational aspects in health care.

Aim: This study explores how healthcare professionals included in the COVID-19 contingency plan experienced organizational changes, and explores factors associated with the experiences. Additionally, the study aimed to identify learning points for future similar scenarios.

Design: A cross-sectional study.

Frontline nurses' experiences of working in a COVID-19 ward-A qualitative study.

Aim: To explore how nurses experienced working in a newly organized COVID-19 ward with high-risk patients during a new and unknown pandemic.

Design: A qualitative explorative study using a phenomenological-hermeneutic approach.

Methods: Semi-structured individual telephone interviews were conducted in June-July 2020 with 23 nurses working in COVID-19 wards from three regional hospitals in Denmark.

'One feels somewhere that one is insignificant in that system' - older multimorbid patients' between lifeworld and system in healthcare.

Background: When older multimorbid people are acutely hospitalized, continuity of care is a fundamental goal in the healthcare process. However, some acute hospitalized older multimorbid patients do not experience continuity of care. This phenomenon is explored using the theoretical framework of Jürgen Habermas "Theory of communicative action".

Older multimorbid patients' experiences on integration of services: a systematic review.

Background: Half of the older persons in high-income counties are affected with multimorbidity and the prevalence increases with older age. To cope with both the complexity of multimorbidity and the ageing population health care systems needs to adapt to the aging population and improve the coordination of long-term services. The objectives of this review were to synthezise how older people with multimorbidity experiences integrations of health care services and to identify barriers towards continuity of care when multimorbid.

Ear measurement of temperature is only useful for screening for fever in an adult emergency department.

Background: A new generation of ear thermometers with preheated tips and several measurements points should allow a more precise temperature measurement. The aim of the study was to evaluate if the ear temperature measured by this ear thermometer can be used to screen for fever and whether the thermometer is in agreement with the rectal temperature and if age, use of hearing devices or time after admission influences the temperature measurements.

Methods: Open cross-sectional clinical single site study patients, > 18 years old, who were acutely admitted to the short stay unit at the ED.