Parents' perceptions of care quality at child health centres: A cross-sectional study from Sweden.

Aim: To examine parents' perceptions of care quality at child health centres. Specific objectives were to examine parents' perceptions of the care received and the subjective importance of such care. Furthermore, to examine the relationship between parents' sociodemographic characteristics and the perceptions of care quality.

Further development of the reflective practice questionnaire.

Background: This article provides an update of the Reflective Practice Questionnaire (RPQ). The original RPQ consisted of 40-items with 10-sub-scales. In this article, the RPQ is streamlined into a 10-item single reflective practice construct, and a 30-item extended version that includes additional sub-scales of confidence, uncertainty/stress, and work satisfaction.

The telephone nursing dialogue process: an integrative review.

Background: Telephone nursing involves triage, advice, and care management provided by a nurse over the telephone. The telephone nursing dialogue process has been used clinically in telephone nursing in Sweden for several years to structure the communication and ensure a safe assessment and advice. Studies are needed to determine whether there is sufficient scientific evidence to support the method.

A Study of Self-Care Practice in Routine Radiotherapy Care: Identifying Differences Between Practitioners and Non-Practitioners in Sociodemographic, Clinical, Functional, and Quality-of-Life-Related Characteristics.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to describe self-care practice during radiotherapy for cancer and to identify potential differences between practitioners and non-practitioners of self-care regarding sociodemographic, clinical, functional, and quality-of-life-related characteristics.

Methods: In this descriptive study, 439 patients (87% response rate) undergoing radiotherapy responded to a study questionnaire regarding self-care, sociodemographic, clinical (eg, experienced symptoms), functional, and quality-of-life-related characteristics.

Results: Of the 439 patients, 189 (43%) practiced at least one self-care strategy, while 250 (57%) did not.

Strategies for a safe interhospital transfer with an intubated patient or where readiness for intubation is needed: A critical incidents study.

Introduction: The number of interhospital transports with intubated patients or where intubation readiness is required is increasing in Sweden and globally. Specialist nurses are often responsible for these transports, which involve numerous risks for critically ill patients.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe nurse anaesthetists' and intensive care nurses' strategies for safe interhospital transports with intubated patients or where intubation readiness is required.

Mothers' strategies for creating positive breastfeeding experiences: a critical incident study from Northern Sweden.

Background: Positive breastfeeding experiences positively influence subsequent attitudes towards breastfeeding, and increase mothers' confidence, self-efficacy, motivation and intention to breastfeed. However, the strategies that mothers find useful and effective for creating positive breastfeeding experiences remain largely unknown. The aim of our study was thus to describe experience-based knowledge from mothers about strategies for creating positive breastfeeding experiences.

Development and psychometric evaluation of the Feeling Safe During Surgery Scale.

Aim: The aim of this study is to develop and psychometrically test the Feeling Safe During Surgery Scale.

Design: The study design was non-experimental and cross-sectional.

Method: The evaluation followed classical test theory, and the instrument was evaluated regarding reliability, construct validity and content validity.

Parents' strategies and advice for creating a positive sleep situation in the family.

Aim: The aim of this study was to describe the experience-based knowledge of parents of children aged 0-3 years for creating a positive sleep situation in the family.

Design: This study has a qualitative design. Data were collected using an online survey and analysed using the critical incident technique.

Reflective capacity in nurses in specialist education: Swedish translation and psychometric evaluation of the Reflective Capacity Scale of the Reflective Practice Questionnaire.

Aim: This study aimed to test the validity and reliability of the Swedish version of the Reflective Capacity Scale of the Reflective Practice Questionnaire in a nursing context.

Design: Non-experimental and cross-sectional.

Methods: The instrument was translated from English to Swedish using a translation and back-translation procedure.

Patients' Experiences of Pain and Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting in the Early Postoperative Period After an Elective Knee Arthroplasty.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to explore patients' experience of pain and postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) in the early postoperative period after knee arthroplasties.

Design: This is a retrospective cohort study with a quantitative approach. Data from patients registered in the Swedish Perioperative Registry were used.

The Impact of Preoperative Patient Anxiety on Postoperative Anxiety and Quality of Recovery After Orthopaedic Surgery.

Purpose: To study how preoperative anxiety affects postoperative recovery in orthopaedic surgery based on two specific issues: does preoperative anxiety affect postoperative anxiety, pain, and nausea in the postanesthesia care unit (PACU) and does preoperative anxiety affect the quality of recovery.

Design: This was a nonexperimental quantitative observational study.

Methods: Patients (N = 37) were included through consecutive selection.

Factors Influencing Early Postoperative Recovery After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy.

Purpose: To study the factors influencing early postoperative recovery after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Design: A nonexperimental retrospective study.

Methods: The study was performed using records from all patients who had undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy at a hospital in Northern Sweden in 2017 (219 patients in total).

Key Factors for Successful General Anesthesia of Obese Adult Patients.

Purpose: To study nurse anesthetists' experiences of key factors for successful airway management in general anesthesia of adult obese patients.

Design: The study was a qualitative observational study with a descriptive approach.

Methods: Eight semistructured interviews were conducted.

Patient Satisfaction With Telephone Nursing: A Call for Calm, Clarity, and Competence.

Background: Studies of patient satisfaction with telephone nursing can provide a better understanding of callers' needs and inform the improvement of services.

Purpose: This study described patients' experiences and perceptions of satisfaction with telephone nursing.

Methods: The design was nonexperimental and descriptive, with an inductive approach.

Modeling the effects of telephone nursing on healthcare utilization.

Background: Telephone nursing is the first line of contact for many care-seekers and aims at optimizing the performance of the healthcare system by supporting and guiding patients to the correct level of care and reduce the amount of unscheduled visits. Good statistical models that describe the effects of telephone nursing are important in order to study its impact on healthcare resources and evaluate changes in telephone nursing procedures.

Objective: To develop a valid model that captures the complex relationships between the nurse's recommendations, the patients' intended actions and the patients' health seeking behavior.

Difficult Airways: Key Factors for Successful Management.

Purpose: To describe anesthetic nurses' experiences of key factors for the successful management of difficult airways in adult patients.

Design: This study had a qualitative observational and descriptive design following the critical incident technique.

Methods: Twelve experienced anesthetic nurses were interviewed.

Measuring Electrodermal Activity to Improve the Identification of Agitation in Individuals with Dementia.

Background: Understanding and interpreting the complexity of agitation in people with dementia is challenging.

Objective: To explore whether a sensor measuring electrodermal activity (EDA) can improve the identification of agitation in individuals with dementia.

Methods: Nine individuals with dementia wore a sensor that measured EDA.

Need for reassurance in self-care of minor illnesses.

Aims And Objectives: This study describes people's need for reassurance in self-care of minor illnesses.

Background: Self-care and active surveillance are advocated as important strategies to manage minor illnesses. Reassurance influences patient satisfaction and confidence in the practicing of self-care.

Influence of self-care advice on patient satisfaction and healthcare utilization.

Aim: The aim of this study is to explore the influence of nurse-led self-care advice on healthcare utilization and patients' satisfaction with telephone nursing.

Background: Many consultations in high-cost settings are for conditions that are manageable through self-care and callers with greater satisfaction with the nurse interaction are nearly four times more likely to engage in self-care.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Perceptions of needs related to the practice of self-care for minor illness.

Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe people's perceptions of needs to feel confident in self-care for minor illnesses as well as their perceptions about supporting and obstructing factors in the practice of self-care.

Background: Minor illness constitutes a large part of primary care, and patients' attendance to doctors' appointments for minor illness has been seen to increase future attendance for the same condition. Almost half of the consultations with telenurses result in the provision of self-care advice.

Self-care for minor illness.

Aim: To describe experiences with and knowledge of minor illness, self-care interventions used in minor illness and channels of information used when providing self-care for minor illness.

Background: Although minor illness is self-limiting, symptoms can be substantial and have a great impact on the affected person's wellbeing. Possibilities to seek and find information about health and self-care have significantly increased through internet-based communities, forums, and websites.

Psychometric evaluation of a Swedish Self-Efficacy scale and Recovery Locus of Control scale in the context of minor illness.

Reliable and valid instruments are essential when examining the role of self-efficacy and locus of control in the self-care context. The aim of this study was to test the validity and reliability of the Self-Efficacy Scale in Self-Care (SESSC) and the Swedish version of the Recovery Locus of Control scale (RLoC) in the context of minor illness. A descriptive correlational design was used to assess the psychometric characteristics of the scales.