Nurses' Experiences With Mentoring Nursing Students in Nursing Homes Where an Active, Collaborative Learning Model Is Introduced. A Qualitative Study.

Aim: To explore the experiences of nurses mentoring nursing students who study in an active collaborative learning model in their first clinical placement in nursing homes.

Background: Clinical nurses play a crucial role in providing a meaningful learning environment when mentoring nursing students. Active collaborative learning models are increasingly being implemented in clinical placements in nursing education and it is important to explore the experiences of mentoring nurses when implementing such models.

Fragility and Resilience: Stories of Recovering From Hip Fractures in the Oldest-Old Age.

This study uses a narrative approach to explore the experiences of adults in the oldest stage of old age after they suffered a hip fracture. The focus was on participants' perceptions and descriptions of the traumatic event, the recovery process, and the impact of the fracture on their lives. The study had a longitudinal design and included interviews with 10 participants (mean age 89) who had suffered hip fractures.

Nurse mentors' experiences with suitability assessments in clinical placement: A qualitative study.

Aim: This study aims to explore mentors' experiences with assessing the suitability of nursing students in clinical placements in a context where suitability assessment is required by law.

Background: It is the schools' responsibility to assess students, but mentors play an important role when students are in clinical placements. Clinical placements are typical arenas for assessing suitability.

Kickstart in nursing home-Nursing students experiences of a model for active and collaborative learning in clinical placement.

Aims And Objectives: To explore students' experiences from a pilot project testing out a model for active, collaborative learning in first-year placement at a nursing home.

Background: There is a need for innovative learning activities and projects to improve clinical education in nursing homes. Active, collaborative approaches in placement learning may enhance students learning outcome.

Professional caregivers' participation in the International Caregiver Development Programme: A qualitative study of psychosocial care in nursing homes.

Aim: This paper aims to explore professional caregivers' experiences of psychosocial care for older persons living in nursing homes following the professional caregivers' participation in the International Caregiver Development Programme (ICDP).

Design: A qualitative study.

Methods: About 15 focus group interviews and 25 participatory observations of five ICDP group courses were conducted with 31 employees in nursing homes, including registered nurses, enrolled nurses and nursing aids.

Suitable, fit, competent and safe to practice nursing? Assessing nursing students' personal qualities in clinical placement-An integrative review.

Aims And Objectives: This study aims to explore, describe, and synthesize the personal requirements student nurses are assessed in their clinical placement to be suitable, fit, competent, and safe for the nursing profession.

Background: There are different terms and concepts used when describing what nursing students are assessed by regarding personal requirements needed to be eligible to enter the nursing profession. This is regulated and enforced mainly by different standards and guidelines.

Compassion, emotions and cognition: Implications for nursing education.

Compassion is often understood as central to nursing and as important to ensure quality nursing and healthcare. In recent years, there has been a focus on strategies in nursing education to ensure compassionate nurses. However, it is not always clear how the concept of compassion is understood.

Simulation as a joint learning activity in clinical placement-interaction between first-year nursing students and qualified nurses.

Aims: The purpose of the study was to explore students' experiences from joint simulation training with qualified nurses that took place in students' first-year placement at a nursing home.

Background: Nursing students' clinical placement in nursing homes has been pictured as inadequate, boring and irrelevant. There is a need for innovative learning designs that include increased collaboration between the educational institution and clinical placement site to support student learning in practice.

Nobody Dies Alone in the Electronic Patient Record-A Qualitative Analysis of the Textual Practices of Documenting Dying and Death.

In this study, we analyse the electronic patient record (EPR) as a genre and investigate how a death is documented as part of the EPR, that is, what kind of textual practices can be found, and how they can be understood based on extracts from 42 EPRs from medical wards in Norwegian hospitals. Following from our analysis, we see four distinct patterns in the documentation of patient death: a) registering the bare minimum of information, b) registering a body stopped working, c) documenting dying quietly and placing it in peaceful surroundings, and d) highlighting the accompanied death. The textual practices of documenting the transition to death in the EPR make death appear manageable and sanitised, depicting death as either uneventful or good.

Planning and implementing quality improvement projects in clinical practice: Third-year nursing students' learning experiences.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the impact of an educational design to develop nursing students' competence to work systematically with quality improvement in clinical practice.

Background: Competence in how to improve the quality and safety of healthcare services based on new knowledge is crucial for healthcare quality. Nursing education should give students opportunities to engage in quality improvement projects to gain this competence.

Nursing and midwifery students' experiences and perception of their clinical learning environment in Malawi: a mixed-method study.

Background: The clinical learning environment is an important part of the nursing and midwifery training as it helps students to integrate theory into clinical practice. However, not all clinical learning environments foster positive learning. This study aimed to assess the student nurses and midwives' experiences and perception of the clinical learning environment in Malawi.

Studying physiology within a flipped classroom: The importance of on-campus activities for nursing students' experiences of mastery.

Aims And Objectives: To explore the on-campus activities of the flipped classroom and their role in nursing students' experiences of mastering physiology.

Background: A nurse must be confident in their knowledge of physiology to feel confident as a nurse. However, many nursing students do not believe in their ability to master physiology.

Hospital nurses' professional accountability while using the National Early Warning Score: A qualitative study with a hermeneutic design.

Aim: To explore general hospital ward nurses' experiences with the National Early Warning Score and to determine its impacts on their professionalism.

Background: The National Early Warning Score has broad appeal; it is a patient safety initiative designed to ensure early identification of and response to deteriorating patients in hospitals. However, it is still unclear how the tool impacts nurses' professionalism.

Introducing the National Early Warning Score - A qualitative study of hospital nurses' perceptions and reactions.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore hospital nurses' perceptions and reactions to the National Early Warning Score during an introduction programme.

Design: A qualitative case study approach with participatory observations was used for this study.

Methods: In total, nine seminars and 23 simulation sessions attended by nurses were observed.

Leadership in interprofessional collaboration in health care.

Purpose: There is a need to develop more knowledge on how frontline managers in health care services facilitate the development of new roles and ways of working in interprofessional collaborative efforts and the challenges they face in daily practice. The article is based on a study that examines the modes of governance adopted by frontline managers in Norway, with a special focus on leadership in collaborations between the Norwegian profession of social educator and other professions.

Materials And Methods: A qualitative research design was chosen with interviews of eleven frontline managers from district psychiatric centers, municipal health care services and nursing homes.

Nursing students studying physiology within a flipped classroom, self-regulation and off-campus activities.

Nursing students experience physiology as a challenging subject to learn. A learner-centred approach could enhance their learning. This study explored nursing students' experiences of actively studying anatomy and physiology off-campus within a flipped classroom using various digital tools.

The impact of Early Warning Score and Rapid Response Systems on nurses' competence: An integrative literature review and synthesis.

Aims And Objectives: To describe, interpret and synthesise the current research findings on the impact of the Early Warning Score and Rapid Response Systems on nurses' competence in identifying and managing deteriorating patients in general hospital wards.

Background: As patient safety initiatives designed to ensure the early identification and management of deteriorating patients, the Early Warning Score and Rapid Response Systems have broad appeal. However, it is still unclear how these systems impact nurses' competence when these systems are used in general hospital wards.

Symptoms without disease: Exploring experiences of non-Western immigrant women living with chronic pain.

The aims of the researchers were to explore the experiences of non-Western immigrant women living with chronic pain in Norway. Nine individual interviews were conducted and analyzed with a phenomenological approach. We found that the women were wavering between different models to explain their pain.

Lack of compassion or poor discretion? Ways of addressing malpractice.

In this article, our point of departure is the 'compassion crisis' in the National Health Service in the UK and the initiatives introduced in the aftermath of scandals that were intended to strengthen healthcare professionals' ability to show compassion. We look at the two main strategies, which we term the 'recruitment and staff development strategy' and the 'amelioration of the quality systems strategy' and the debate that has arisen related to them. Based on this analysis, we question whether compassion really is a helpful concept to understand the crisis and hence to underpin relevant strategies.

Young-onset Alzheimer dementia: a comparison of Brazilian and Norwegian carers' experiences and needs for assistance.

Objectives: Although dementia typically occurs in older people, it can also emerge in people aged younger than 65 years in the form of young-onset dementia, the most common type of which is Alzheimer's disease (AD). However, few studies have examined the needs of persons with young-onset AD (YO-AD) and their families, and cross-cultural research on the topic is even scarcer. In response, we investigated the situations, experiences and needs for assistance of carers of persons with YO-AD in Brazil and Norway.

Nursing students' spiritual talks with patients - evaluation of a partnership learning programme in clinical practice.

Aims And Objectives: To evaluate the impact of a partnership learning programme designed to support undergraduate nursing students' competence in speaking with patients about spiritual issues.

Background: Spiritual care is an oft-neglected and underexposed area of nursing practice. Despite the increasing amount of research on spiritual care in educational programmes, little is known about nursing students' experiences with existential/spiritual talks and the process of learning about spiritual care in the clinical placement.

Experiences of Older Men Living Alone: A Qualitative Study.

More and more old people live alone, and living alone is reported to be a key risk factor for experiencing loneliness and developing poor health. The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of living alone for older men. Systematic text condensation and hermeneutic interpretation were used in analysis of the data.

Enhancing students' moral competence in practice: Challenges experienced by Malawian nurse teachers.

Background: Nurses and student nurses in Malawi often encounter challenges in taking a moral course of action. Several studies have demonstrated a need for increased awareness of ethical issues in the nursing education.

Objective: To explore the challenges experienced by nurse teachers in Malawi in their efforts to enhance students' moral competence in clinical practice.

Caries assessment and restorative treatment thresholds reported by Swedish dentists.

The aim was to study any variability in approximal and occlusal caries diagnoses and restorative treatment decisions among Swedish dentists. The material consisted of a pre-coded questionnaire sent to a random sample of 923 dentists with 4 items concerning approximal and occlusal caries diagnosis and restorative treatment decisions. Responses were received from 651 (70.