Developing a Feasible and Credible Method for Analyzing Healthcare Documents as Written Data.

Healthcare provides a rich, and constantly increasing, number of written documents, which are underutilized in research data for health and nursing sciences, but previous literature has only provided limited guidance on the process of document analysis. The aim of this paper is to provide a methodological framework for analyzing health care documents as written data, based on a systematic methodological review and the research team's experience of the method. Based on the results, the methods consist of seven phases: (i) identify the purpose, (ii) determine the document selection strategy, (iii) select or design an extraction matrix, (iv) carry out pilot testing, (v) collect and analyze the data, (vi) consider the credibility, and (vii) ethics of the study.

Disciplinary processes for nurses, from organizational supervision to outcomes: A document analysis of a regulatory authority's decisions.

Aim: This study aims to explore the disciplinary processes for nurses, from organizational supervision to final decisions by the Finnish regulatory authority.

Background: Regulatory authorities are responsible for protecting the public, by ensuring that they receive safe, competent and ethical nursing care, but little is known about the disciplinary processes for nurses.

Methods: This is a retrospective document analysis of 296 disciplinary decisions by the Finnish regulatory authority from 2007 to 2016.

Unprofessional conduct by nurses: A document analysis of disciplinary decisions.

Background: A small minority of nurses are investigated when they fail to meet the required professional standards. Unprofessional conduct does not just affect the nurse but also patients, colleagues and managers. However, it has not been clearly defined.

Neglecting the care of older people in residential care settings: A national document analysis of complaints reported to the Finnish supervisory authority.

Neglecting to provide older people with the care they need in residential care settings leads to human suffering and increased service needs. Research is lacking on neglect in older people's residential care and one way to assess the key issues is to study complaints. The aim of this study was to analyse official complaints related to allegations of neglect in residential care settings caring for older people in Finland.

Older people's perceived autonomy in residential care: An integrative review.

Autonomy has been recognised as a key principle in healthcare, but we still need to develop a consistent understanding of older people's perceived autonomy in residential care. This study aimed to identify, describe and synthesise previous studies on the perceived autonomy of older people in residential care. Ethical approval was not required, as this was a review of published literature.

Integrative review of studies about nurses who have been disciplined by their professional regulatory bodies.

Aim: To synthesize knowledge in studies about nurses who had been disciplined by their professional regulatory bodies.

Background: Unprofessional conduct that violates patient safety, nursing standards or legislation can result in disciplinary action that affects nurse's professional rights to practice. However, research on disciplinary procedures in nursing is fragmented.

Nurses' perceptions of the use of restraint in pediatric somatic care.

Background: The interest in the children's role in pediatric care is connected to children's health-related autonomy and informed consent in care. Despite the strong history of children's rights, nurses' role in the everyday nursing phenomenon, that is, restraint in somatic pediatric care, is still relatively seldom reported.

Aim: The aim of this study is to describe nurses' perceptions of the use of restraint in somatic pediatric care.