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Nurses' experiences of caring for patients at the end of life in hospitals : A literature review
No full textBakgrund: Palliativ vård lindrar symtom och förbättrar livskvaliteten vid obotliga sjukdomar, medan vård i livets slutskede fokuserar på trygghet när döden är nära. Sjuksköterskor spelar en central roll genom stöd, tydlig kommunikation och säkerställande av värdig vård. Deras arbete innebär att lindra fysiskt och psykiskt lidande, skapa en trygg och respektfull vårdmiljö, samt ge både patienten och anhöriga emotionellt stöd. Genom att vara närvarande, lyssna på patientens behov och önskemål samt erbjuda empatisk vård, säkerställer sjuksköterskor att patienten känner sig värdig och respekterad under sin sista tid i livet. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda patienter i livets slutskede på sjukhus. Metod: En litteraturöversikt med vetenskapliga artiklar hämtades från databaserna Cinahl Complete och PubMed. Urvalet gjordes enligt Fribergs beskrivning för litteraturöversikter och omfattade tio kvalitativa studier. Sökord som användes var till exempel "sjuksköterskors erfarenhet" och "vård i livets slutskede". Resultat: Sjuksköterskor som arbetade inom palliativ vård ställdes ofta inför känslomässiga och etiska utmaningar. Begränsad tid och hög arbetsbelastning påverkade deras förmåga att ge adekvat vård. Effektiv kommunikation med patienter och deras anhöriga var avgörande för att säkerställa en värdig vård. Mentorskap och kontinuerlig utbildning betraktades som viktiga för att hantera dessa utmaningar. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskors arbete i livets slutskede är känslomässigt krävande. Kontinuerlig utbildning, handledning och kollegialt stöd är avgörande för att hantera dessa utmaningar, minska stress och säkerställa respektfull och värdig vård. Background: Palliative care relieves symptoms and improves quality of life in terminal illnesses, while end-of-life care focuses on providing comfort when death is imminent. Nurses play a central role by providing support, clear communication and ensuring dignified care. Their work involves alleviating physical and psychological suffering, creating a safe and respectful care environment, and providing emotional support to both the patient and their relatives. By being present, listening to the patient’s needs and wishes, and offering empathetic care, nurses ensure that the patient feels dignified and respected during their final moments of life. Aim: The aim was to describe nurses' experiences of caring for patients at the end of life in hospitals. Method: A literature review with scientific articles was retrieved from the databases Cinahl Complete and PubMed. The selection was made according to Friberg's description for literature reviews and included ten qualitative studies. Search terms used included, for example, "nurses' experiences" and "end-of-life care." Results: Nurses working in palliative care often face emotional and ethical challenges. Time constraints and heavy workloads affected their ability to provide adequate care. Effective communication with patients and their families was crucial to ensuring dignified care. Mentorship and continuous education were considered essential in addressing these challenges. Conclusion: Nurses working in end-of-life care often encounter emotional challenges. Continuous education, supervision, and collegial support are essential to manage these challenges, reduce stress, and ensure respectful and dignified care
Nurses' experiences of caring for patients at the end of life in hospitals : A literature review
No full textBakgrund: Palliativ vård lindrar symtom och förbättrar livskvaliteten vid obotliga sjukdomar, medan vård i livets slutskede fokuserar på trygghet när döden är nära. Sjuksköterskor spelar en central roll genom stöd, tydlig kommunikation och säkerställande av värdig vård. Deras arbete innebär att lindra fysiskt och psykiskt lidande, skapa en trygg och respektfull vårdmiljö, samt ge både patienten och anhöriga emotionellt stöd. Genom att vara närvarande, lyssna på patientens behov och önskemål samt erbjuda empatisk vård, säkerställer sjuksköterskor att patienten känner sig värdig och respekterad under sin sista tid i livet. Syfte: Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskors erfarenheter av att vårda patienter i livets slutskede på sjukhus. Metod: En litteraturöversikt med vetenskapliga artiklar hämtades från databaserna Cinahl Complete och PubMed. Urvalet gjordes enligt Fribergs beskrivning för litteraturöversikter och omfattade tio kvalitativa studier. Sökord som användes var till exempel "sjuksköterskors erfarenhet" och "vård i livets slutskede". Resultat: Sjuksköterskor som arbetade inom palliativ vård ställdes ofta inför känslomässiga och etiska utmaningar. Begränsad tid och hög arbetsbelastning påverkade deras förmåga att ge adekvat vård. Effektiv kommunikation med patienter och deras anhöriga var avgörande för att säkerställa en värdig vård. Mentorskap och kontinuerlig utbildning betraktades som viktiga för att hantera dessa utmaningar. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskors arbete i livets slutskede är känslomässigt krävande. Kontinuerlig utbildning, handledning och kollegialt stöd är avgörande för att hantera dessa utmaningar, minska stress och säkerställa respektfull och värdig vård. Background: Palliative care relieves symptoms and improves quality of life in terminal illnesses, while end-of-life care focuses on providing comfort when death is imminent. Nurses play a central role by providing support, clear communication and ensuring dignified care. Their work involves alleviating physical and psychological suffering, creating a safe and respectful care environment, and providing emotional support to both the patient and their relatives. By being present, listening to the patient’s needs and wishes, and offering empathetic care, nurses ensure that the patient feels dignified and respected during their final moments of life. Aim: The aim was to describe nurses' experiences of caring for patients at the end of life in hospitals. Method: A literature review with scientific articles was retrieved from the databases Cinahl Complete and PubMed. The selection was made according to Friberg's description for literature reviews and included ten qualitative studies. Search terms used included, for example, "nurses' experiences" and "end-of-life care." Results: Nurses working in palliative care often face emotional and ethical challenges. Time constraints and heavy workloads affected their ability to provide adequate care. Effective communication with patients and their families was crucial to ensuring dignified care. Mentorship and continuous education were considered essential in addressing these challenges. Conclusion: Nurses working in end-of-life care often encounter emotional challenges. Continuous education, supervision, and collegial support are essential to manage these challenges, reduce stress, and ensure respectful and dignified care
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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