Registered nurses' experience of care for adult patients with a temporary tracheostomy at general hospital wards. A phenomenological-hermeneutic explorative study.

Background: Caring for adult patients with a temporary tracheostomy in general wards can be challenging and complex. Little research has explored registered nurses' experiences with caring for these groups of patients.

Objectives: This study sought to interpret and describe registered nurses' lived experiences of caring for adult patients with a tracheostomy in general wards.

ICU nurses´ lived experience of caring for adult patients with a tracheostomy in ICU: a phenomenological-hermeneutic study.

Background: The care of adult patients with a tracheostomy in intensive care unit is complex, challenging and requires skilled intensive care unit nurses. ICU nurses' live experience is scarcely known. This study aimed to describe the lived experience of intensive care unit nurses of caring for adult patients with a tracheostomy in intensive care unit.

The bodily presence of significant others: Intensive care patients' experiences in a situation of critical illness.

This study is about intensive care patients and the bodily presence of significant others. The aim of the study is to inquire and understand the patients experience of the body in relation to their significant others during critical illness. Open, unstructured, in-depth interviews with six former intensive care patients provide the data for the study.