Publications by authors named "Siri Voldbjerg"

Objective: This scoping review aims to identify and map the use of the Fundamentals of Care Framework in nursing education to provide insights into curriculum development that can benefit educators, health care professionals, and policy makers in educational contexts.

Introduction: The Fundamentals of Care Framework offers a comprehensive approach for conceptualizing and delivering high-quality, person-centered fundamental care. Use of the framework in education is shown to enhance critical thinking, establish a shared language for nursing care, and increase understanding of person-centered care.

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Objective: The objective of this review is to identify and synthesize the best available evidence on nurses' perceptions of the reasons for missed nursing care in hospitals.

Introduction: Missed nursing care in hospitals is a complex and global problem affecting patients, nurses, and the health care system. An in-depth understanding of reasons for missed nursing care is essential to prevent it from happening in hospitals.

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Ineffective use of the early warning score (EWS) can compromise recognition and response to patients' deteriorating condition. This study explores nurses' and physicians' ideas on initiatives for supporting the effective use of the EWS in a hospital setting. Participatory workshops were conducted, and data were analyzed using content analysis.

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Background: The commitment of nurses to their profession and workplace is closely linked to the delivery of high-quality patient care. Existing literature highlights the positive impact of commitment on care quality and patient outcomes. Conversely, a lack of commitment can lead to nurse burnout and disengagement.

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Background: A changing nursing workforce and an increase in demands for care together with more complex care, raise arguments that leading and guiding nursing practice is more challenging than ever. Therefore, nurses need to have a shared agenda and a common language to show the importance of nursing care and the consequences of not addressing this in an appropriate way. In response to this the Fundamentals of Care framework was developed to also contribute to the delivery of person-centred care in an integrated way.

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Aim: To explore factors influencing newly graduated nurses' delivery of direct care in acute care hospital settings.

Design: Qualitative study using focused ethnography.

Methods: During the period from March to June 2022, a total of ten newly graduated nurses were purposively sampled, and data were collected through 96 h of participant observation as well as ten semi-structured interviews.

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Aim: To summarize existing research syntheses reporting newly graduated registered nurses' experiences of providing direct care in hospital settings.

Design: Umbrella review.

Data Sources: An extensive search of all relevant databases was conducted for research syntheses.

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Aim: To explore clinical supervisors' perceptions and use of the Fundamentals of Care framework in supervising nursing students in clinical placement in hospital settings.

Design: A qualitative study using focus group interviews. Reported in accordance with Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research.

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Aim: The aim was to describe and discuss the process of establishing and leading a cross-institutional partnership to regain focus on and reconceptualize fundamental nursing care in clinical practice, nursing education and research in one region in Denmark.

Design: A discursive paper. The case study method is used as an adapted frame for describing and discussing the establishment and strategic decisions of a cross-institutional partnership.

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This study aims to explore how a changed COVID-19 work environment influences nurses' clinical decision-making. Data were collected via three focus groups totaling 14 nurses working in COVID-19 pandemic wards at a Danish university hospital. The factors influencing decision-making are described in three themes; navigating in a COVID-19 dominated context, recognizing the importance of collegial fellowship, and the complexities of feeling competent.

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The maintenance of physical distance, the absence of relatives and the relocation of registered nurses to COVID-19 units presumably affects nursing care at non-COVID-19 units. Using a qualitative design, this study explored registered nurses' experiences of how COVID-19 influenced nursing care in non-COVID-19 units at a Danish university hospital during the first wave of the virus. The study is reported using the COREQ checklist.

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Aims: To explore the role of ward-based nurse managers in supporting nurses to undertake high-quality fundamental care.

Design: A qualitative study guided by the principles of interpretive description. Reported in accordance with Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research (COREQ).

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Aim: This study describes and explores the influences in registered nurses' use of early warning scores to support clinical decisions in a hospital setting.

Design: A focussed ethnography allowed for the investigation of registered nurses' clinical practices in two wards in a Danish University Hospital. The study adhered to the 'Standards for Reporting Qualitative Research'.

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Aim: To explore how the socialisation into the clinical setting and interaction between newly graduated nurses and experienced nurses influences the new graduates' use of knowledge sources.

Background: Newly graduated nurses' use of knowledge sources in decision-making has been subject to an increased interest in relation to evidence-based practice. Despite interventions to strengthen nurses' competencies required for making reflective clinical decisions within an evidence-based practice, studies highlight that new graduates only draw on knowledge from research, patients and other components within evidence-based practice to a limited extent.

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Aims And Objectives: To explore how nursing students perceive and use the conceptual Fundamentals of Care framework in case-based work in nursing education and furthermore to describe influencing factors on perceptions and use of the framework.

Background: The Fundamentals of Care framework has been integrated in core courses in two Schools of Nursing in Region North Denmark in response to studies reporting that nursing students and newly graduated nurses lack the knowledge, skills and competencies to meet the challenges of delivering fundamental care in clinical practice. An integration of the framework in case-based work in nursing education has not previously been studied.

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Aims And Objectives: To describe and discuss the process of integrating the Fundamentals of Care framework in a baccalaureate nursing education at a School of Nursing in Denmark.

Background: Nursing education plays an essential role in educating nurses to work within healthcare systems in which a demanding workload on nurses results in fundamental nursing care being left undone. Newly graduated nurses often lack knowledge and skills to meet the challenges of delivering fundamental care in clinical practice.

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Aims And Objectives: To explore which knowledge sources newly graduated nurses' use in clinical decision-making and why and how they are used.

Background: In spite of an increased educational focus on skills and competencies within evidence-based practice, newly graduated nurses' ability to use components within evidence-based practice with a conscious and reflective use of research evidence has been described as being poor. To understand why, it is relevant to explore which other knowledge sources are used.

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Aim: To advance evidence on newly graduated nurses' use of knowledge sources.

Background: Clinical decisions need to be evidence-based and understanding the knowledge sources that newly graduated nurses use will inform both education and practice. Qualitative studies on newly graduated nurses' use of knowledge sources are increasing though generated from scattered healthcare contexts.

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