Narratives of health-promoting experiences by older husbands and wives providing care to their home-dwelling spouses receiving home-care services in Norway.

Background: In today's healthcare systems, older family caregivers who care for their spouses at home are indispensable providers of healthcare. However, many of these caregivers are at risk of becoming ill themselves. To prevent this and to guide the development of targeted healthcare services, home-care personnel need knowledge on how to promote the health of older family caregivers.

Nursing leadership and management in home care: A qualitative scoping review.

Aim: The purpose is to identify and synthesize the challenges of first-line nurse managers in home care concerning their managerial and leadership role, as described in current qualitative research literature.

Background: Increased responsibilities and shifting tasks in home care lead to challenges for first-line nurse managers. These challenges must be identified and evaluated to ensure quality care provision.

Experiences using an instrument for non-technical skills in nurse anaesthesia education: a focus group study.

Background: Although there is an increasing amount of research on the use of structured behavioural assessment instruments for non-technical skills in a simulation or clinical setting, there is currently little research into how healthcare professionals experience using these instruments. The structured behavioural assessment instrument, Nurse Anaesthetists' Non-Technical Skills-Norway, has recently been introduced to nurse anaesthesia education as a means of developing and assessing non-technical skills in clinical practice. The aim of this study was therefore to explore the experiences of Norwegian student nurse anaesthetists, their mentors and clinical supervisors on using the instrument in clinical practice.

Educating for Excellence: A Cohort Study on Assessing Student Nurse Anesthetist Non-Technical Skills in Clinical Practice.

Non-technical skills play an integral role in providing safe and excellent anesthesia. Currently there is little standardization in the assessment of non-technical skills in clinical practice, although various instruments exist. The aim of this study was to explore the use of the Nurse Anaesthetists' Non-Technical Skills-Norway (NANTS-no) structured assessment instrument in developing and assessing non-technical skills in clinical practice.

The core qualities and competencies of the intensive and critical care nurse, a meta-ethnography.

Aim: To develop a conceptual framework of the core qualities and competencies of the intensive and critical care nurse based on the experiences of intensive care patients, their relatives and the intensive and critical care nurses.

Design: Meta-ethnography.

Data Sources: A comprehensive, systematic search in seven databases supplemented with hand, citation and reference search.

Psychometric Testing of a Structured Assessment Instrument for Non-technical Skills (NANTS-no) for Use in Clinical Supervision of Student Nurse Anesthetists.

Background: This study evaluated psychometric properties of a structured behavioral assessment instrument, Nurse Anaesthetists' Non-Technical Skills-Norway (NANTS-no). It estimated whether reliable assessments of nontechnical skills (NTS) could be made after taking part in a workshop. An additional objective was to evaluate the instrument's acceptability and usability.

Safe and competent nursing care: An argument for a minimum standard?

There is no agreed minimum standard with regard to what is considered safe, competent nursing care. Limited resources and organizational constraints make it challenging to develop a minimum standard. As part of their everyday practice, nurses have to ration nursing care and prioritize what care to postpone, leave out, and/or omit.

Visibility of nursing in policy documents related to health care priorities.

Aim: To explore the visibility of nursing in policy documents concerning health care priorities in the Nordic countries.

Background: Nurses at all levels in health care organisations set priorities on a daily basis. Such prioritization entails allocation of scarce public resources with implications for patients, nurses and society.

Patient classification systems used to classify nursing intensity and assess nursing staffing resources in home health care: A scoping review.

Objectives: To identify the patient classification systems used to classify nursing intensity in the assessment of nursing staffing resources currently used in home health care, with a special emphasis on validity, reliability and staff allocation.

Design: Scoping review of internationally published and grey literature, based on a methodological framework by Arksey and O'Malley.

Data Sources: Searches of the electronic databases Cinahl, Medline, Embase and SweMed, the websites Google and Google Scholar and hand searches of reference lists occurred.

Collaboration between home care staff, leaders and care partners of older people with mental health problems: a focus on personhood.

Background: Collaboration with care partners is a political aim in recent white papers in Norway and internationally. Home care services regularly work closely with care partners, but there are many indications that the collaboration does not work satisfactorily.

Aim: To explore home care staff and leaders' experiences of collaborating with care partners of older people with mental health problems through a personhood perspective.

Invisible cornerstones. A hermeneutic study of the experience of care partners of older people with mental health problems in home care services.

Objectives: To explore the lived experiences and support needs of the care partners of older people with mental health problems living at home with assistance from home care services. Care partners face significant challenges in their care role and they often feel unsupported. An understanding of their experiences may help improve home care to support their needs.

Ethical elements in priority setting in nursing care: A scoping review.

Background: Nurses are often responsible for the care of many patients at the same time and have to prioritise their daily nursing care activities. Prioritising the different assessed care needs and managing consequential conflicting expectations, challenges nurses' professional and moral values.

Objective: To explore and illustrate the key aspects of the ethical elements of the prioritisation of nursing care and its consequences for nurses.

The third person in the room: The needs of care partners of older people in home care services-A systematic review from a person-centred perspective.

Aims And Objectives: To identify and synthesise the needs of care partners of older people living at home with assistance from home care services.

Background: "Ageing in place" is a promoted concept where care partners and home care services play significant roles. Identifying the needs of care partners and finding systematic ways of meeting them can help care partners to cope with their role.

Care-managers' professional choices: ethical dilemmas and conflicting expectations.

Background: Care-managers are responsible for the public administration of individual healthcare decisions and decide on the volume and content of community healthcare services given to a population. The purpose of this study was to investigate the conflicting expectations and ethical dilemmas these professionals encounter in their daily work with patients and to discuss the clinical implications of this.

Methods: The study had a qualitative design.

Ethical challenges related to next of kin - nursing staffs' perspective.

Background: Patients in clinical settings are not lonely islands; they have relatives who play a more or less active role in their lives.

Objectives: The purpose of this article is to elucidate the ethical challenges nursing staff encounter with patients' next of kin and to discuss how these challenges affect clinical practice.

Research Design: The study is based on data collected from ethical group discussions among nursing staff in a nursing home.

Rationing home-based nursing care: professional ethical implications.

The purpose of this study was to investigate nurses' decisions about priorities in home-based nursing care. Qualitative research interviews were conducted with 17 nurses in home-based care. The interviews were analyzed and interpreted according to a hermeneutic methodology.

Fair nursing care when resources are limited: the role of patients and family members in Norwegian home-based services.

The purpose of the study was to investigate nurses' priority decisions and the provision of home-based nursing care services. Interviews were conducted with 17 nurses in various positions in this service. The data were interpreted and analyzed according to interpretive hermeneutic methodology.