Informal care provision among male and female working carers: Findings from a Swedish national survey.

Introduction: Informal carers in paid employment-working carers (WKCs)-have complex support needs. However, little is known about WKCs' pattern of informal care provision, the support they receive, the impact providing care has on their employment, and how these vary between male and female WKCs. This study describes the pattern of informal care provision and received support among Swedish WKCs.

The interplay between children, their parents and anaesthesia staff during the child's anaesthesia - An observational study.

Aims And Objectives: To interpret and understand the interplay between children, their parents, and anaesthetic staff to gain a greater understanding of children being anaesthetised.

Background: Anaesthesia induction is a stressful procedure for the child and parents in the technologically advanced environment in the operating room (OR). Anaesthesia staff are a key resource for ensuring safety and interplays, but the meeting is often short, intensive, and can affect the child and the parent.

Nurse anesthetist attitudes towards parental presence during anesthesia induction- a nationwide survey.

Aims: To describe nurse anesthetists' attitudes towards the importance of parental presence during their child's anaesthesia induction and to explore associating factors.

Design: A cross-sectional design.

Methods: Nurse anesthetists from 55 Swedish hospitals were asked to participate (n = 1,285).

I'm afraid! Children's experiences of being anesthetized.

Introduction: Children experience anesthetization as stressful, and many preoperative measures have been tested for reducing their anxiety. There is, however, little research about children's own experiences and thoughts about being anesthetized.

Aims: The aim of the present study was thus to explain and understand the meaning of being anesthetized as experienced by children.

Using advanced mobile devices in nursing practice--the views of nurses and nursing students.

Advanced mobile devices allow registered nurses and nursing students to keep up-to-date with expanding health-related knowledge but are rarely used in nursing in Sweden. This study aims at describing registered nurses' and nursing students' views regarding the use of advanced mobile devices in nursing practice. A cross-sectional study was completed in 2012; a total of 398 participants replied to a questionnaire, and descriptive statistics were applied.

Nursing students' experience of using a personal digital assistant (PDA) in clinical practice - an intervention study.

Background: A personal digital assistant (PDA) is a multifunctional information and communication tool allowing nursing students to keep up to date with expanding health related knowledge.

Objectives: This study was aimed at exploring nursing students' experience of using a PDA in clinical practice.

Method: In this intervention study, nursing students (n=67) used PDAs during a period of 15 weeks, replied to questionnaires, and participated in focus group interviews.

Experience of using a personal digital assistant in nursing practice - a single case study.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe one nurse's experience of using a personal digital assistant (PDA) in nursing practice.

Background: Nurses handle large amounts of information and a PDA may contain valuable information that nurses need in their daily work.

Methods: In this qualitative single case study, data were collected through an open-ended interview with one registered nurse and were analysed by content analysis.

Nurses' experience of using electronic patient records in everyday practice in acute/inpatient ward settings: A literature review.

Electronic patient record (EPR) systems have a huge impact on nursing documentation. Although the largest group of end-users of EPRs, nurses have had minimal input in their design. This study aimed to review current research on how nurses experience using the EPR for documentation.

Personal digital assistant with a barcode reader--a medical decision support system for nurses in home care.

Introduction: Inappropriate medication among elderly people increases the risk of adverse drug-drug interactions, drug-related falls and hospital admissions. In order to prevent these effects it is necessary to obtain a profile of the patients' medication. A personal digital assistant (PDA) can be used as a medical decision support system (MDSS) to obtain a profile of the patients' medication and to check for inappropriate drugs and drug combinations, and to reduce medication errors.

A mobile medicine decision support system for district nurses.

Inappropriate use of medicines increases the risk of hospital admissions for the elderly. Not only does this lead to unnecessary suffering for the patients but also incurs a great financial cost to the society. A medicine decision support system in a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), with a barcode reader, can provide an overview of the patients' complete medicine use, and detect unsuitable drugs and drug combinations.

The use of the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) among personnel and students in health care: a review.

Background: Health care personnel need access to updated information anywhere and at any time, and a Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) has the potential to meet these requirements. A PDA is a mobile tool which has been employed widely for various purposes in health care practice, and the level of its use is expected to increase. Loaded with suitable functions and software applications, a PDA might qualify as the tool that personnel and students in health care need.

Nurses' attitudes about the importance of families in nursing care: a survey of Swedish nurses.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the attitudes of registered nurses (RNs) about the importance of involving families in nursing care. A sample of 634 randomly selected Swedish RNs completed the instrument, Families' Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA), and reported holding supportive attitudes about families. High scores were found for the subscales: family as a resource in nursing care, family as a conversational partner, family as a burden, and family as its own resource.

Families' Importance in Nursing Care: Nurses' Attitudes--an instrument development.

This article describes the development and testing of a research instrument, Families' Importance in Nursing Care-Nurses' Attitudes (FINC-NA), designed to measure nurses' attitudes about the importance of involving families in nursing care. The instrument was inductively developed from a literature review and tested with a sample of Swedish nurses. An item-total correlation and a first principal component analysis were used to validate the final instrument, including a second principal component analysis to analyze dimensionality, and Cronbach's alpha was used to estimate internal consistency.