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Nurses go visiting : ethics and gender in home-based nursing care
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Öresland, Stina
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The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how nursing is constructed in home-based nursing care from the viewpoint of patients and nurses who are receiving or giving care. Since nursing both constructs and is in turn constructed by the context in which it serves, language plays a central part in ...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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English
Vårdplaneringsmötet. : En studie av det institutionella samtalet mellan äldre kvinnor, närstående och vårdare
Author(s) :
Efraimsson, Eva
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The overall aim of this thesis is to describe how elderly women’s encounters with an institutionalised world of health care manifest itself in a discharge planning conference (DPC). The thesis is based on eight video recorded DPCs and follow-up interviews with the women who took part in the conferen...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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Swedish
Våld i särskilda boenden för äldre : språk och sociala interaktioner
Author(s) :
Sandvide, Åsa
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The present thesis aims to study the relationship between the violence that occurs in institutional care for older people and the language employed when this violence and the involved parties are talked and narrated. The thesis has been guided by social constructionism, and violence, victims and per...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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Swedish
Trycksårsprevention med inriktning mot individanpassning : En deskriptiv observationsstudie vid två operationsverksamheter
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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Swedish
Atmosphere in care settings : Towards a broader understanding of the phenomenon
Author(s) :
Edvardsson, David
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The overall aim of the study is to understand and describe the phenomenon ‘atmosphere in care settings’ as experienced by patients, significant others and health care staff. The study consists of four papers, each of which illuminates various aspects of the phenomenon. Data consisted of observations...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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English
Living in consolation while growing very old
Author(s) :
Santamäki Fischer, Regina
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Growing very old into late life means increased suffering that may lead to despair and call for consolation. This thesis looks at the lived experience of very old people and aim at illuminating the meaning of growing very old and the meaning of consolation when growing old. It is part of the Umeå 85...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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English
Stress of conscience and burnout in healthcare : the danger of deadening one's conscience
Author(s) :
Glasberg, Ann-Louise
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The overall purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether there is an association between “stress of conscience” — that is, stress related to a troubled conscience — and burnout, and to obtain an enhanced understanding of factors related to stress of conscience and burnout in healthcare. Of the f...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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English
Man måste vila emellanåt : patienters självskattade och berättade erfarenheter av att leva med kronisk hjärtsvikt
Author(s) :
Hägglund, Lena
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The overall purpose was to explore the experience of living with chronic heart failure among patients in primary healthcare. Comparisons were made between patients with confirmed heart failure (HF, n=49), patients with symptoms indicating HF but with no HF (NHF, n=59), and a reference group (n=40). ...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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Swedish
Våld mot vårdare i sjukhemsvård
Author(s) :
Isaksson, Ulf
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This thesis aimed to explore factors related to the prevalence of violence towards caregivers working in a nursing home context. The aim was also to describe caregivers’ perceptions and experiences of violence in a nursing home context. The thesis comprises four studies. Study I includes data regard...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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Swedish
Purpose in life among very old people
Author(s) :
Hedberg, Pia
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The aim of this thesis is to explore purpose in life among very old people. The proportion of elderly is increasing in Sweden, especially among the group of very old aged over 85 years. Ageing has been associated from some perspectives with health, wisdom, maturity, and inner strength. Ageing can al...
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Publikationer från Umeå Universitet
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English