"Always be relevant": a phenomenological study of the actor's workday.

Background: Actors face a demanding entertainment industry characterised by understaffing, precarious working conditions, temporary contracts, intense work pressure, and rigorous performance expectations. These challenges create barriers in their workday and influence their health and well-being.

Methods: This qualitative study involved in-depth interviews with 14 actors from across Norway with diverse backgrounds and acting experiences.

Digital ethical reflection in home nursing care: Nurse leaders' and nurses' experiences.

Background: Nurse leaders increasingly need effective tools that facilitate the prioritisation of ethics and help staff navigate ethical challenges and prevent moral distress. This study examined experiences with a new digital tool for ethical reflection, tailored to improve the capabilities of both leaders and employees in the context of municipal long-term care.

Aim: The aim was to explore the experiences of nurse leaders and nurses in using Digital Ethical Reflection as a tool for ethics work in home nursing care.

Thinking strategies used by registered nurses during drug administration in nursing homes-An observational study.

Aim: To explore registered nurses' thinking strategies during the drug administration process in nursing homes.

Design: An exploratory qualitative design.

Methods: Eight registered nurses, one male and seven female, in five nursing home wards in Mid-Norway were observed during 15 drug dispensing rounds (175 drug dispensing episodes).

Digital ethical reflection in long-term care: Leaders' expectations.

Background: Healthcare leader support and facilitation for ethics work are of great importance for healthcare professionals' handling of ethical issues, moral distress, and quality care provision. A digital tool for ethical reflection in long-term care was developed in response to the demand for appropriate tools.

Research Aim: This study aimed to explore healthcare leaders' expectations of using a digital tool for ethical reflection among their home nursing care staff.

Developing and Testing Digital Ethical Reflection in Long-Term Care: Nurses' Experiences.

Introduction: Nurses working in municipal long-term care face ethical challenges that can lead to moral distress and discomfort for the nurse and affect the quality of patient care. Tools and methods that contribute to increased ethical awareness and support for nurses dealing with moral issues are lacking. Technological innovations may be suitable for ethics work, but little research has been conducted on how such solutions could be designed or their potential benefit.

The art of making the right exception to the "rule": Nurses' experiences with drug dispensing in nursing homes.

Nurses are key professionals in ensuring safe drug management in nursing homes, and their practice is regulated by a number of guidelines. The present study aimed to explore nurses' experiences of dispensing drugs to older people in nursing homes by using an exploratory qualitative design. Focus group interviews were conducted in three nursing homes in central Norway; the data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis.

Older Adults Living in Sheltered Housing's Experiences of Involvement in Pro Re Nata Decisions. A Narrative Positioning Analysis.

Decisions regarding pro re nata medications might be challenging due to the complex nature of the practice. The aim of this study was to expand our understanding of the experiences of older people living in sheltered housings with regard to shared decision-making concerning pro re nata medications. In this study, we conducted in-depth interviews with residents living in Norwegian sheltered housings.

Drug modification by nurses in Norwegian nursing homes: A cross-sectional study.

Crushing and dividing pills among older patients in nursing homes appears to be a common yet not harmless practice. Because few updates exist regarding the role of nurses and their dispensing of drugs in nursing homes, this study sought to describe the occurrence, methods, and causes of nurses' drug modification and to examine possible factors associated with drug modification in this context. A cross-sectional study of 273 dispensing episodes of solid oral drugs made by nurses, were observed during day and evening shifts.

Nurses' Experiences of Documenting the Mental Health of Older Patients in Long-Term Care.

Nursing documentation is repeatedly reported to be insufficient and unsatisfactory. Although nurses should apply a holistic approach, they tend to document physical needs more often than other caring dimensions. This study aimed to describe nurses' experiences documenting mental health in older patients receiving long-term care.

"Looking for Deviations": Nurses' Observations of Older Patients With COPD in Home Nursing Care.

Nurses working in home care play a significant role in observing and identifying changes in the health status of patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The aim of this study was to explore and describe nurses' observations of older patients with COPD when providing home nursing care. In this qualitative explorative study, data were collected through observations of 17 home care visits using the think-aloud technique, followed up with individual interviews with the nurses.

'To give or not to give medication, that is the question.' Healthcare personnel's perceptions of factors affecting pro re nata medication in sheltered housing for older adults - a focus-group interview study.

Background: Residents living in sheltered housing depend on help from healthcare personnel (HCP) with medication management, regarding regular long-term and pro re nata (PRN) medication. The HCP assess the need for PRN medication prior to administration to the residents. The purpose of this study was to describe HCP's perceptions of factors affecting PRN medication management in sheltered housing for older adults.

Variations in drug-related problems detected by multidisciplinary teams in Norwegian nursing homes and home nursing care.

Objective: Traditionally, nursing homes have been associated with suboptimal drug therapy and drug-related problems (DRPs). In contrast, less is known about drug safety in homecare. The aim of this study was to describe and compare DRPs in older persons across two care settings: nursing homes and home nursing care.

Breakdown in informational continuity of care during hospitalization of older home-living patients: a case study.

Introduction: The successful transfer of an older patient between health care organizations requires open communication between them that details relevant and necessary information about the patient's health status and individual needs. The objective of this study was to identify and describe the process and content of the patient information exchange between nurses in home care and hospital during hospitalization of older home-living patients.

Methods: A multiple case study design was used.

Barriers to information exchange during older patients' transfer: nurses' experiences.

Aims And Objectives: To describe nurses' experiences of barriers that influence their information exchange during the transfer of older patients between hospital and home care.

Background: The successful transfer of an older patient across health organisations requires good communication and coordination between providers. Despite an increased focus on the need for cooperation among providers across healthcare organisations, researchers still report problems in the exchange of information between the hospitals and the healthcare systems in the municipalities.

Nurses' information exchange during older patient transfer: prevalence and associations with patient and transfer characteristics.

Introduction: To ensure continuity of care, it is important to effectively communicate the health status of older patients who are transferred between health care organizations. The objectives of this study were to: (1) evaluate the prevalence of nursing transfer documents, and (2) identify patient and transfer characteristics associated with the presence of nursing transfer documents for older patients transferred from home care to hospital and back to home care again after hospitalization.

Methods: Nursing documents were reviewed from a total of 102 records of older inpatients admitted from home care to medical wards at a local hospital in central Norway and later discharged home.