Home care nurses' experience of providing health-care to patients with hard-to-heal wounds.

Objective: To investigate and describe the experience of nurses working in home care, with responsibility for providing health-care to patients with hard-to-heal wounds.

Method: A qualitative method with exploratory and descriptive design was used. Nurses from in three municipalities in Norway were recruited.

Training Nursing Skills: A Quantitative Study of Nursing Students' Experiences before and after Clinical Practice.

Introduction: Requirements for Patient Safety suggest that students encounter patients well prepared. In clinical laboratory practice (CLP), the students simulate patient situations as a preparation for internship. Various CLP models have been tried out to meet the students' prerequisites and learning strategies.

Nursing students' conception of clinical skills training before and after their first clinical placement: A quantitative, evaluative study.

Unlabelled: Education institution and practice field have a joint responsibility with regard to facilitating a learning environment for the nursing students that provides learning outcomes in accordance with the National Curriculum. Using simulated patient situations is about ensuring a safe learning environment where mistakes are not putting real patients' lives in danger.

The Aim Of The Study: To compare nursing students' experiences with a skills training situation immediately after the training and after their ten weeks clinical placement in nursing homes.

Nurses' conceptions of how an alternative supervision model influences their competence in assessment of nursing students in clinical practice.

Aim: The aim of the study was to describe variations in clinical nurses' conceptions of how an alternative supervision model influences their competence in assessing nursing students in clinical practice.

Background: Nursing education programme in Norway includes 50 weeks of clinical studies. Due to changes in the education system and increased focus on evidence-based practice, alternative models of supervision and assessment have been developed.

The nursing staff's opinion of falls among older persons with dementia. a cross-sectional study.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to describe the nursing staff's opinion of caring for older persons with dementia with the focus on causes of falls, fall-preventing interventions, routines of documentation and report and the nursing staff's experiences and reactions when fall incidents occur. A further aim was to compare these areas between registered nurses (RNs) and enrolled nurses (ENs) and staff with ≤5 and >5 years of employment in the care units in question.

Background: Falls are common among older people and persons with dementia constitute an additional risk group.