Radiographers' experience of risks for patient safety incidents in the radiology department.

Aims And Objectives: To describe potential risks for patient safety incidents in the radiology department from a radiographer's perspective.

Background: A radiology department is a high-tech environment with high communication activity between different healthcare systems in combination with a large patient flow. Risks for patient safety incidents exist in every phase of a radiological examination.

Use of technical skills and medical devices among new registered nurses: A questionnaire study.

Background: One comprehensive part of nursing practice is performing technical skills and handling of medical equipment. This might be challenging for new registered nurses (RNs) to do in patient-safe way.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe and compare the extent to which new RNs perform various technical skills and handle medical devices in different settings, and to investigate their possibility for continued learning in this respect.

Nurse teacher models in clinical education from the perspective of student nurses--A mixed method study.

Objectives: The aim was to describe and compare the clinical teacher's role in different models of clinical practice from the perspective of student nurses.

Design And Settings: The study took place in collaboration with two Swedish universities that applied different educational models in clinical practice. A mixed method approach was used.

Test-retest reliability of the Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher (CLES + T) scale.

The Clinical Learning Environment, Supervision and Nurse Teacher (CLES + T) scale evaluates the student nurses' perception of the learning environment and supervision within the clinical placement. It has never been tested in a replication study. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the test-retest reliability of the CLES + T scale.

Evaluation of an intervention to individualise patient education at a nurse-led heart failure clinic: a mixed-method study.

Aims And Objectives: The main aim of this study was to evaluate whether addressing the written questions of heart failure patients could individualise the education and increase patient satisfaction. A further aim was to describe the learning needs of patients with newly diagnosed heart failure.

Background: Despite well-designed patient education, daily problems and self-care sometimes seem difficult to manage for the patient with heart failure.

Work stress among newly graduated nurses in relation to workplace and clinical group supervision.

Aim: The aim was to investigate occupational stress among newly graduated nurses in relation to the workplace and clinical group supervision.

Background: Being a newly graduated nurse is particularly stressful. What remains unclear is whether the workplace and clinical group supervision affect the stress.

Swedish nursing students' experience of stress during clinical practice in relation to clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the clinical education.

Aims And Objectives: To describe nursing students' experience of stress during clinical practice and evaluate the risk of stress in relation to the clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the clinical education.

Background: Stress during clinical practice is well documented, but there is a lack of knowledge concerning whether the clinical setting characteristics and the organisation of the education make a difference.

Design: A cross-sectional study with evaluative design.

Nursing students' assessment of the learning environment in different clinical settings.

Introduction: Nursing students perform their clinical practice in different types of clinical settings. The clinical learning environment is important for students to be able to achieve desired learning outcomes. Knowledge is lacking about the learning environment in different clinical settings.

Student nurses' experiences of the clinical learning environment in relation to the organization of supervision: a questionnaire survey.

Aim: The aim was to investigate student nurses' experiences of the clinical learning environment in relation to how the supervision was organized.

Background: The clinical environment plays an essential part in student nurses' learning. Even though different models for supervision have been previously set forth, it has been stressed that there is a need both of further empirical studies on the role of preceptorship in undergraduate nursing education and of studies comparing different models.

Intermittent versus indwelling urinary catheterisation in hip surgery patients: a randomised controlled trial with cost-effectiveness analysis.

Background: Hip surgery is associated with the risk of postoperative urinary retention. To avoid urinary retention hip surgery patients undergo urinary catheterisation. Urinary catheterisation, however, is associated with increased risk for urinary tract infection (UTI).

Patients' experiences of bladder emptying in connection with hip surgery: an issue but of varying impact.

Aim: To describe patients' experiences of bladder emptying and urinary catheterization in connection with hip surgery.

Background: The capacity of bladder emptying in connection with hip surgery is affected by pain, medication and confinement to bed. In connection with such surgery urinary catheterization is often performed, either intermittent or indwelling.

A prospective study of nosocomial urinary tract infection in hip fracture patients.

Aim: To investigate risk factors and consequences of nosocomial urinary tract infection in hip fracture patients.

Background: Nosocomial urinary tract infection is a well-known problem in hip fracture patients. There are several risk factors for nosocomial urinary tract infection described in the literature.

A randomised controlled trial on the effect of clamping the indwelling urinary catheter in patients with hip fracture.

Aim: To investigate the effect of clamping the urinary catheter before its removal in patients with hip fracture.

Background: Difficulties to return to normal bladder function after removal of the urinary catheter are frequent in patients with hip fracture. Clamping the urinary catheter before removal is proposed to shorten the amount of time required to return to normal bladder function.

The relationship between function, quality of life and coping in patients with low-grade gliomas.

Objectives: The principal aim of the study was to describe function, quality of life and coping with illness-related problems in patients with low-grade gliomas (LGG), to evaluate the need of support. A second aim was to investigate how function, quality of life and coping were related.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-nine patients with a diagnosis of LGG answered the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Core Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC-QLQ-C30) and the Ways of Coping Questionnaire (WCQ).

Emotional distress and coping in the early stage of recovery following acute traumatic hand injury: a questionnaire survey.

Background: Emotional distress is frequent in patients with acute traumatic hand injury during the first weeks after the accident. Knowledge of coping in relation to emotional distress could help to identify those who need support.

Objectives: To describe the different kinds of coping used by patients in the early stage of recovery following an acute traumatic hand injury and to investigate differences in coping patterns in patients with and without symptoms of emotional distress.

Problems experienced during the first year of an acute traumatic hand injury - a prospective study.

Background: Evidence-based nursing of patients with acute traumatic hand injuries treated at the hand-surgical clinic calls for knowledge about long-term implications.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate consequences of an acute traumatic hand injury during the first year after the accident. Specifically, the objectives were to investigate changes in the experience of physical and psychological problems over time, frequencies of remaining problems and the impact of the injury on work situation and life situation 1 year after the accident.

A qualitative study of coping in the early stage of acute traumatic hand injury.

Twenty patients with acute traumatic hand injury were interviewed 8-20 days after the day of the accident. The aim of the study was to identify coping strategies, defined as thoughts or actions used by the hand-injured patients to manage stress factors and resulting emotions in the early stage. Stress factors were reported in an earlier study.