First-Line Nursing Home Managers in Sweden and their Views on Leadership and Palliative Care.

The aim of this study was to investigate first-line nursing home managers' views on their leadership and related to that, palliative care. Previous research reveals insufficient palliation, and a number of barriers towards implementation of palliative care in nursing homes. Among those barriers are issues related to leadership quality.

Body awareness in persons diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.

Living with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) poses physiological and psychological demands on a person. RA is a autoimmune disease that can cause pain, disability, and suffering. The ability to notice bodily inner sensations and stimuli (body awareness, BA) is described in the literature in ways that could have either a positive or a negative impact on a person's health.

Preparing for palliative caregiving as a transition in the awareness of death: family carer experiences.

Aim: The aim of this study was to explore family caregivers´ experiences from partners' stories about preparing for caregiving.

Methods: The study had a descriptive and interpretive design using qualitative interviews and qualitative content analysis.

Results: Preparing for caregiving was described in the two sub-themes: living in uncertainty, focusing on the present and preparing for the future; and preparing for caregiving while transitioning to new roles.

Everyday life, healthcare, and self-care management among people with irritable bowel syndrome: an integrative review of qualitative research.

Irritable bowel syndrome is a commonly recognized chronic disease in all healthcare settings. This integrative review investigated current knowledge about adults' illness-related experiences of this disease from the perspectives of everyday life, healthcare, and self-care management. The overarching findings related to everyday life with irritable bowel syndrome were life-limiting experiences of the body-self as unfamiliar and of the body and symptoms as shameful and unpredictable.

Meanings and experiential outcomes of bodily care in a specialist palliative context.

Objective: The objective of this study was to enhance the depth of existing knowledge about meanings and experiential outcomes of bodily care in the context of an inpatient specialist palliative setting.

Method: Interpretative phenomenology was chosen as the study sought to explore individuals' lived experiences related to bodily care. Nine participants (five women, four men) of various ages and with various metastasized cancers and bodily-care needs, all from one specialist palliative care ward, participated.

Maintaining ordinariness around food: partners' experiences of everyday life with a dying person.

Aims And Objectives: To explore partners' experiences of everyday life in caring for a dying person with eating deficiencies at home.

Background: When a dying person receives care at home, eating deficiencies can influence everyday life for family members, who often take responsibility for the provision of food and meals. The literature reveals this to be emotionally stressful.

Being alone in silence - mothers' experiences upon confirmation of their baby's death in utero.

Objective: to explore mothers' experiences of the confirmation of ultrasound examination results and how they were told that their baby had died in-utero.

Design: in-depth interviews.

Setting: Sweden.

Bridging the gap between theory and practice: a supervision programme for nursing students.

This paper describes nursing students' views of a supervision programme provided during the second semester of their education, which was their first period of nursing practice. A form with open questions and a 24-item questionnaire were completed by the 28 nursing students. The analysis of their responses was a combination of factor analysis and grounded theory approach, based on comparative analysis.

Subtle coercion in psychiatric practice.

Making nursing decision for patients who cannot communicate their own wishes and needs is a common problem in psychiatric and mental health nursing. The aim of this article is to present the findings of a qualitative study focused on situations in which patients do not cooperate with a nursing decision about what should be done for them. The design of the study utilized some steps associated with the grounded theory method.

Expert views on clinical supervision: a study based on interviews.

Clinical supervision is a didactic process of the purpose of human development and maturity. The aim of this study is to analyse views on clinical supervision held by a number of experts, and to reflect on the effects and value of clinical supervision in relation to public health. Data were collected by interviews and analysed in accordance with the grounded theory construction model.

Leg and foot ulcer patients. Epidemiology and nursing care in an urban population in south Stockholm, Sweden.

Objective: To study the prevalence, demography, perceived aetiology, level of care, treatment and nursing care of patients treated for leg and foot ulcers.

Design: Prospective survey of leg and foot ulcer patients, using a structured questionnaire consisting of 20 questions directed at nurses and doctors in 193 units, including both primary health care and hospital.

Setting: South Stockholm Medical Area, Stockholm, Sweden.

Systematic clinical supervision, working milieu and influence over duties: the psychiatric nurse's viewpoint--a pilot study.

This pilot study describes nurses' experiences of the effects of clinical supervision on psychiatric health care, their views on their working milieu and duties, and the relationship between the nurses' experiences and perceptions. The sample consisted of 26 trained nurses (nine registered nurses and 17 licensed mental nurses) who took part in a clinical supervision intervention programme pursued in two wards at a psychiatric clinic. The effects of clinical supervision were evaluated using a questionnaire.

Clinical supervisors' views of their leadership role in the clinical supervision process within nursing care.

The purpose of this study was to investigate nurse supervisors' views of their supervisory styles, their personal qualities and their leadership role, and the development of these styles. The sample consisted of 18 clinical nurse supervisors. The data were collected by interviews using 15 open-ended questions, and a 10-item questionnaire, and the analysis was a combination of hermeneutical and factor analysis.

Respect for the patient's integrity and self-determination--an ethical imperative called upon in the Swedish Health and Medical Care Act.

The Swedish Health and Medical Care Act of 1983, states that health and medical care should be based on respect for the patient's self determination and integrity. The aim of this statement according to the legislative preparatory work, was to ensure that individuals seeking help from the health care system retained their dignity and integrity. The law also states that care, when possible, is to be planned and implemented in consultation with the patient.