Discharging older patients from hospital to homecare: conflicts in collaborative practices among nurses across sectors.

Background: Collaboration is a key factor influencing the quality and safety in patients transition between sectors. However, specific collaborative practices may give rise to conflict between hospital nurses and community nurses.

Aims: To gain a deeper understanding of collaborative practices which have the potential to fuel tension in collaboration between hospital nurses and community nurses during discharge of older patients from hospital to homecare.

Collecting pieces for the 'puzzle': Nurses' intraprofessional collaboration in the hospital-to-home transition of older patients.

Background And Aim: Communication is a key factor in intraprofessional collaboration between hospital nurses and homecare nurses in hospital-to-home transitions of older patients with complex care needs. Gaining knowledge of the nature of cross-sectoral communication is crucial for understanding how nurses collaborate to ensure a seamless patient trajectory. This study explores how cross-sectoral electronic health records communication influences collaboration between hospital nurses and homecare nurses when discharging older patients with complex care needs.

Coming home: older patients' and their relatives' experiences of well-being in the transition from hospital to home after early discharge.

Background: This study aims to investigate the lived experience of well-being among older patients and their relatives in the transition from hospital to home after early discharge. Research has shown that the transition brings severe challenges to their everyday lives. However, to date, there has been a lack of research focusing on the lived experiences of well-being during this process.

A comparative review of advanced practice nurse programmes in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Background: Advanced practice nurses (APNs) programs are career-development opportunities significant for nursing workforce retention as well as for the quality of patient care. Inconsistency regarding policy, education, titles, scope of practice, skills and competencies have been identified as major challenges in developing advanced practice nursing in Europe. APN roles and education are under development in the Nordic and Baltic countries.

Being well? A meta-ethnography of older patients and their relatives' descriptions of suffering and well-being in the transition from hospital to home.

Background: As the average length of hospital stay decreases, more and more older patients will need support during and after the hospital transition, which will mainly be provided by their relatives. Studies highlight the enormous effect such a transition has on the lives of older patients and their relatives. However, research is lacking regarding in-depth understanding of the complexities and the notions of suffering and well-being the older patients and their relatives describe in the transition from hospital to home.

What Makes Dependency on Homecare Bearable? A Phenomenological Study.

Becoming dependent on homecare in old age is a radical life change that requires complex adaption. The purpose of this study was to explore the existential dimension of being dependent on homecare with a particular focus on what makes dependency bearable. In total, 15 older people living in Denmark or Norway were interviewed using a phenomenological approach.

Who cares?-The unrecognised contribution of homecare nurses to care trajectories.

Background: Organisation of patients' trajectories is a critical element of nursing practice. However, nursing practice is mainly expressed in terms of direct patient care, while the practices through which care is organised have received little attention, are poorly acknowledged and lack formal recognition.

Aim: To examine the management of care trajectories as provided by homecare nurses.

- as a next-of-kin to an adolescent or young adult with cancer facing eating difficulties.

Purpose: Eating difficulties cause reduced food intake and poor quality of life among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer. Therefore, next-of-kin eating support is crucial. The purpose of this study was to explore the lived experiences of being close to AYAs with cancer in the context of eating when they are at home between high-emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC) sessions.

Love, joy and necessity - A phenomenological study of food and meals in adolescents and young adults with cancer receiving high-emetogenic chemotherapy.

Purpose: This study explored how the phenomenon of meals appeared in the interrelationship between adolescents and young adults (AYAs) receiving high-emetogenic chemotherapy, their next of kin and health professionals in the clinical setting.

Method: Data were collected by 140 h of participant observation conducted to gain insights into the nature of how meals appeared in the interrelationship between 12 AYAs (age 15-29 years), their next-of-kin and health professionals. The AYAs were patients with oncological and haematological diseases recruited from three university hospital departments.

-Lived Experiences of Eating Among Adolescents and Young Adults Undergoing High-Emetogenic Chemotherapy.

The purpose of this study was to provide in-depth understanding of adolescents' and young adults' (AYAs') lived experiences of eating when they are at home between high-emetogenic chemotherapy sessions. The study was guided by van Manen's hermeneutic-phenomenological methodology. Eligible AYAs were 15-29 years old, diagnosed with either oncological or hematological cancer, treated with high-emetogenic chemotherapy, and Danish speaking.

Knowledge of mothers and fathers' experiences of the early in-home care of premature infants supported by video consultations with a neonatal nurse.

Aim: To gain in-depth knowledge of mothers' and fathers' experiences of the whole trajectory of an early in-home care programme supported by video consultations with a neonatal nurse.

Design: A qualitative interview study.

Methods: Data were collected through dyadic semi-structured interviews with mothers and fathers participating in virtual early in-home care programmes and were subjected to inductive content analysis.

Video consultation as nursing practice during early in-home care for premature infants and families viewed from the families' homes'.

Aim: This study examined how communication between nurses and families in video consultations in a neonatal early in-home care program unfolded in the context of parents' homes.

Design: A qualitative study based on focused observations supported by audio-recorded video consultations.

Methods: The data were collected through nine video consultations between nurses and families in an early in-home care program.

Living in limbo while one's identity is changing: Patients' existential experiences 6 months after a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Aim: To investigate patients' existential experiences in everyday life after a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Design: A qualitative study anchored in a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach inspired by Ricoeur's theory of narrative and interpretation.

Method: Eleven patient interviews were conducted approximately 6 months after a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Considering "the more" of patients suffering from alcohol use disorders. An illustration of acute nursing care from a lifeworld-led perspective.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to illustrate a theoretical value framework for humanisation of healthcare, a lifeworld-led care that has the potential to support nurses in acute medical units in addressing and meeting both challenges and care needs expressed by patients suffering from alcohol use disorders. Providing care to these patients means working with a very divergent and complex group of patients. When hospitalised in an acute medical unit, nurses are often these patients' first encounter, which gives a unique opportunity to initiate and establish a successful care alliance.

Existential Contradictions in Living With End-Stage Renal Disease: A Qualitative Metasynthesis.

A qualitative metasynthesis following Sandelowski and Barroso's method was conducted to explore what characterizes the existential experiences of individuals living with end-stage renal disease. The findings show that patients with end-stage renal disease live with several existential contradictions characterized by the following: perception of the body-oscillating between connection and separation, maintaining life-oscillating between freedom and captivity, uncertainty-oscillating between hope and despair, and enduring technology-oscillating between being perceived as an object and subject. Consequently, living with end-stage renal disease is challenging for patients; hence, the support of nurses is important to alleviate patients' vulnerability.

individualized and triadic nurse meetings support couples adjustment to living with deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease.

Treatment with deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease, leads to a rapid improvement in mobility, which may challenge patients and spouses when adjusting to everyday life. An intervention, developed to support the adjustment to everyday life with DBS, demonstrated that individualized meetings with a specialized nurse was experienced as important and fruitful by both patient and spouses.  The aim was to gain a deeper understanding of how the meetings contributed to the adjustment process.

Comparison of video and in-hospital consultations during early in-home care for premature infants and their families: A randomised trial.

Introduction: Early in-home care is increasingly being used in Scandinavian countries for clinically stable premature infants. Due to challenges with travel and hospital resources, alternative ways to support parents during early in-home care are being considered. The aim of this study was to test whether the proportion of mothers exclusively breastfeeding, parental confidence and mother-infant interaction increased after early in-home care with premature infants, and to compare the outcomes of in-home care involving the use of video communication and a mobile application with those of in-home care involving in-hospital consultations.

Struggles with infrastructures of information concerning hospital-to-home transitions.

Homecare nurses play a unique role in providing care during the follow-up after hospital discharge and in preventing readmission. The aim of this study was to explore the key challenges faced by homecare nurses in relation to caring for discharged patients. Data were collected through five focus group interviews with 29 Danish homecare nurses and subjected to inductive content analyses.

Living in one's own world, while life goes on: Patients' experiences prior to a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Aims And Objectives: To investigate patients' existential experiences in everyday life prior to a kidney transplantation with a living donor.

Background: Kidney transplantation is a well-established treatment for patients with end-stage kidney disease. The prevalence of patients living with end-stage renal disease is increasing.

Infants' transition from milk to solid foods - the lived experiences of first-time parents.

: During the transition from ingesting milk to ingesting solid food, infants substantiate their eating habits. The present study focuses on this transition. Specifically, it aimed to explore first-time parents' lived experiences of their infants' transition from milk to solid foods.

Do the carers care? A phenomenological study of providing care for patients suffering from alcohol use disorders.

Excessive alcohol consumption can have adverse effects on health, and patients who suffer from alcohol use disorders are subject to much stigmatization. Nurses are often the first point of contact when patients enter the acute medical unit, and it is pivotal that this contact establishes the basis for future collaboration. The aim of this study is to elucidate nurses' lived experience of providing care to patients suffering from alcohol use disorders.

Nurses experiences of ethical dilemmas: A review.

Background: Nursing care is rapidly evolving due to the advanced technological and medical development, and also due to an increased focus on standardization and the logic of production, permeating today's hospital cultures. Nursing is rooted in a holistic approach with an ethical obligation to maintain and respect the individual's dignity and integrity. However, working within time limits and heavy workload leads to burnout and ethical insensitivity among nurses, and may challenge nurses' options to act on the basis of ethical and moral grounds in the individual care situation.

Nordic homecare nursing from the perspective of homecare nurses-a meta-ethnography.

The pressure on homecare nursing in the Nordic countries has increased in recent years because of a reorganisation of healthcare systems that has put a focus on very early discharge from hospital as well as demographic changes. This article details an analysis of the findings of 13 published qualitative research reports about Nordic homecare nurses' experiences of their work. Using a process of meta-ethnography, the authors identify five themes within the primary research: home care as a professional practice on foreign ground; home care as a massive time constraint; home care as fair rationing; home care as relationships with relatives as fellow players or opponents; and home care as latent paternalism.

Scheduled care-As a way of caring: A phenomenological study of being cared for when suffering from alcohol use disorders.

Aims And Objectives: To elucidate the lived experience of how patients with alcohol use disorders experience being cared for when admitted to acute medical units.

Background: Alcohol use is health damaging and is identified as one of the major avoidable risk factors, and alcohol use disorder is classified among the most harmful, debilitating disease categories. Patients suffering from alcohol use disorders are characterised by complex problems and health pictures spawned by chaotic lifestyles.

The process of becoming a user of an osseointegrated prosthesis following transfemoral amputation: a qualitative study.

Purpose: To investigate what characterizes the process of becoming a user of an osseointegrated prosthesis following transfemoral amputation.

Method: The study is based on the descriptive phenomenological framework Reflective Lifeworld Research. Data were collected through in-depth interviews with seven participants who had undergone transfemoral implant surgery and currently used their osseointegrated prosthesis.