"That Is What We Have Left of Her": The Significance of Transitional Objects After the Death of an Infant in a Norwegian Context.

When an infant dies in a neonatal intensive care unit in Norway, healthcare professionals provide bereaved parents with objects intended to help them processing their loss. Such objects can be clothes, blankets, soft animal toys, hand- and footprints, hair, as well as scrapbooks where the short life is documented through text and photo. By interviewing bereaved parents in three focus groups, we investigated the parents' use of these objects.

"They Stay With You": Nursing Home Staff's Emotional Experiences of Being in a Close Relationship With a Resident in Long-Term Care who Died.

To explore and develop understanding of nursing home staff's emotional experiences of being in a close relationship with a resident in long-term care who later died. Ethnographic fieldwork. As part of fieldwork, narrative interviews were conducted with nursing home staff ( = 6) in two nursing homes in Norway and analyzed using interpretative phenomenological analysis.

How Do Migrant Nursing Home Staff Relate to Religion in Their Work With Patients Who Are Approaching Death?

Aim: To investigate how migrant nursing home staff relate to religion in their care for patients who are approaching death.

Method And Theory: Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 16 migrant health care workers from five nursing homes in Norway. The overall analytic approach was hermeneutical.