Preventive care for individuals with deep pressure ulcers in Sweden living at home: A cross-sectional study.

Background And Aims: Several factors exist regarding the risk for, healing and prevention of pressure ulcers (PUs). A mobile PU team with an individualized holistic approach adapted to the home or outpatient clinic setting could be beneficial for the prevention, and management of PUs.

Aims: To describe the mobile PU team's interventions among individuals who had deep PUs and were living at home.

Using pressure mapping intraoperatively to prevent pressure ulcers-A quasi-experimental study.

Background And Aim: Patients undergoing surgery are at high risk of developing pressure ulcers. However, pressure ulcer prevention in the operating room department is demanding and restricted. New techniques, such as continuous pressure mapping that visualizes interface pressure, are now available.

Newly graduated registered nurses' self-assessed clinical competence and their need for further training.

Aim: To explore and describe changes in self-assessed clinical competence and the need for further training among newly graduated Registered Nurses during their first 15 months of professional work in acute care hospital settings.

Design: Quantitative longitudinal design.

Methods: The 50-item Professional Nurse Self-Assessment Scale of clinical core competencies II was used.

Healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient safety for the woman in childbirth in Sweden - An interview study.

Aim: To describe healthcare professionals' perceptions of patient safety with a focus on the woman in connection to childbirth.

Design: A descriptive and qualitative design with a phenomenographic approach.

Methods: Individual qualitative face-to-face interviews with 19 healthcare professionals (midwives, nursing assistants and physicians) were conducted in three labour wards in Sweden.