Critical care nurses' competence in mentoring students in intensive care units-A cross-sectional study.

Background: Mentors play an important role in the practical education of critical care nursing students in intensive care units, yet little is known about the mentoring competencies of critical care nurses.

Aim: The aim of this study was to assess Norwegian critical care nurses' competence in mentoring students in intensive care units.

Design: This study has a descriptive, cross-sectional design, utilising a self-administered online survey.

Judith Butler's theoretical perspectives within a nursing context-a scoping review.

Philosopher Judith Butler has influenced how people talk about vulnerable bodies and sees vulnerability as universal, existential, and relational. Being vulnerable is part of the human condition. The main theoretical areas that run across Butler's work; power, knowledge and subjectivity, performativity, and ethics-are of particular relevance to nursing practice.

The Norwegian version of the nursing student mentors' competence instrument (MCI): A psychometric validation study.

Background: Nurse mentors require competence to mentor nursing students in clinical practice, including specific knowledge and skills. Evaluating mentor competence is crucial in developing and ensuring the high-quality mentoring of nursing students. The nursing student mentors' competence instrument is one of the few valid instruments for assessing the competence of nurses as mentors.

Critical care nurses' assessment of writing diaries for adult patients in the intensive care unit - A qualitative study.

Background: Patients describe surreal experiences, hallucinations, loss of control, fear, pain, and other discomforts during their stay in intensive care units. Diaries written by critical care nurses can help patients fill-in memory gaps, gain an understanding of their illness after returning home, and enhance recovery. However, critical care nurses have difficulty deciding which patients in the intensive care unit should receive diaries and how to conduct and prioritise this nursing intervention.

Non-invasive ventilation in the care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease with palliative care needs: a scoping review.

Background: Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) could have palliative care (PC) needs because of unmet needs such as dyspnoea. This may lead to anxiety and may have an impact on patients' ability to perform daily activities of living. PC can be started when patients with COPD have unmet needs and can be provided alongside disease-modifying therapies.

Critical care nurses' experiences of caring for patients with iatrogenic opioid withdrawal in the intensive care unit: A qualitative study.

Objectives: To explore critical care nurses' experiences of caring for adult patients experiencing iatrogenic opioid withdrawal in the intensive care unit.

Research Methodology/design: A qualitative study with an explorative and descriptive design was conducted. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and systematic text condensation was used to analyse the data.

Facilitating a safe and caring atmosphere in everyday life in forensic mental health wards - a qualitative study.

Purpose: To explore healthcare professionals' experiences with facilitating a safe and caring atmosphere in patients' everyday lives in forensic mental health wards.

Methods: This qualitative study employed interviews with 16 healthcare professionals working shifts in two forensic mental healthcare wards in Norway. Data were analysed using phenomenological hermeneutic analysis.

Beyond loss: An essay about presence and sparkling moments based on observations from life coexisting with a person living with dementia.

This is an essay based on a story with observations, about present and sparkling moments from everyday life coexisting with a mother living with dementia. The story is used to begin philosophical underpinnings reflecting on 'how it could be otherwise'. Dementia deploys brutal existential experiences such as cognitive deterioration, decline in mental functioning and often hurtful social judgements.

Haematological nurses' experiences about palliative care trajectories of patients with life-threatening haematological malignancies: A qualitative study.

Aims: To explore haematological nurses' experiences about the palliative care trajectories of patients with life-threatening haematological malignancies.

Design: A qualitative study with a descriptive and explorative design.

Methods: Data were collected through 12 individual semi-structured interviews of nurses who work with patients with haematological malignancies from four hospitals in Norway.

Communication with mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units: A concept analysis.

Aims: The aim of this study was to perform a concept analysis of communication with mechanically ventilated patients in intensive care units and present a preliminary model for communication practice with these patients.

Design: The Im & Meleis approach for concept analysis guided the study.

Search Methods: A literature search was performed in January 2022 in MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, psycINFO and Scopus, limited to 1998-2022.

Humanizing and dehumanizing intensive care: Thematic synthesis (HumanIC).

Background: Critical illness and the intensive care unit can be a terrifying experience to patients and relatives and they may experience the extreme life-saving measures as dehumanizing. Humanizing intensive care is often described as holism or dignity, but these abstract concepts provide little bodily resonance to what a humanized attitude is in concrete situations.

Objective: To explore what contributes to patients' and relatives' experience of intensive care as humanized or dehumanized.

Exploring the Impact of Virtual Reflection Groups on Advanced Practice Nurse Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Focus Group Study With Master's Students.

Background: In the master's program of advanced practice nursing at a Norwegian university college, the learning activity reflection groups were converted into virtual reflection group (VRG) meetings during the COVID-19 pandemic. Regardless of the students' clinical practices in different hospitals, they could participate in the same VRG meeting on the web together with the educator from the university college, and the clinical supervisors were invited to participate. The students were in the process of developing the core competence required in their role as advanced practice nurses (APNs), and they had increased responsibility in the implementation of the VRG meetings.

Collaboration between nurses and doctors in the decision-making process when considering ending the life-prolonging treatment of intensive care patients.

Aims: The aim of the study was to explore intensive care nurses' collaboration with doctors' when considering ending the life-prolonging treatment of patients in the intensive care unit.

Design: A qualitative method with an explorative descriptive design was employed.

Methods: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with four intensive care nurses and four doctors working in three intensive care units at two university hospitals and one local hospital.

Carers' experience of everyday life impacted by people with dementia who attended a cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) group intervention: a qualitative systematic review.

To explore carers' experiences of everyday life impacted by people with dementia who attended a seven-week cognitive stimulation therapy (CST) group intervention.A systematic review of qualitative studies and qualitative mixed method studies was conducted. Eight databases were searched.

"Humanizing intensive care: A scoping review (HumanIC)".

Significant scientific and technological advances in intensive care have been made. However, patients in the intensive care unit may experience discomfort, loss of control, and surreal experiences. This has generated relevant debates about how to humanize the intensive care units and whether humanization is necessary at all.

Non-invasive ventilation in the palliative care of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience a great symptom burden. Breathlessness is a very frequently reported symptom that negatively affects all aspects of daily life and could lead to fear of dying. Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) could be an important palliative measure to manage breathlessness in patients with advanced COPD.

Ethical dilemmas embedded in performing fieldwork with nurses in the ICU.

Background: Background: In general, qualitative research design often involves merging together various data collection strategies, and researcher's may need to be prepared to spend longer periods in the field to pursue data collection opportunities that were not foreseen. Furthermore, nurse researchers performing qualitative research among patients and their relatives often experience unforeseen ethical dilemmas.

Aim: This paper aimed to explore aspects of ethical dilemmas related to qualitative nursing research among patients and their relatives in the intensive care unit (ICU).