The dual competence profile: A support of collaboration between practice and science. A qualitative descriptive studyAbstract.Background: To ensure orientation towards needs existing in the realm of practice, the dual ...
Need for Optimization of Exclusion Programs for Gamblers – VeSpA-Interview StudyAbstract.Background and research question: Exclusion programs are effective prevention measures for gamblers. However, they need to ...
Subjective Distress and Coping Strategies of the Caretaker Relatives of Turkish Migrants Suffering from DementiaThis article introduces the partial results of a qualitative study concerning the experiences of caretaker relatives of Turkish migrants ...
The ability to handle a complex medication regimen is important for patients with cancer being treated on an outpatient basis, because many of them have to take drugs for oral chemotherapy, against cancer-related symptoms, side effects of the treatments, ...
In Switzerland, decreases in regular hospital treatment after birth are leading increasingly to mother and child being cared for at home by independent midwives. The research herein was carried out in order to understand the needs of mothers in their home ...
Background: Routine postnatal care normally addresses only the mother and her child. In Switzerland, counselling for all parents and their children is provided by family nurses in a community-based health care setting. We implemented a new approach to ...
Background: Older people often have multimorbidity requiring a complex regime of medications, which may change following hospital discharge, thus presenting new challenges. The experiences of older people, who manage their own medications, in particular ...
Experience of patients waiting for a hip or pelvic fracture surgery – a qualitative studyAbstract. Background: In Swiss hospitals, patients are waiting for a hip fracture surgery due to a variety of reasons, despite the guidelines recommending a rapid ...
Everything safe? – Risk situations in advanced home care from the point of view of ventilated patients and their relativesAbstract. Background: The number of home mechanically ventilated (HMV) patients has been growing for ...
Non-pharmacological treatment of hospital patients with sleeping problems – the nurse perspectiveAbstract. Background: Elderly patients suffer from sleep disturbances during hospitalization. These patients often receive ...
The COVID-19-pandemic in acute inpatient setting from nursing managers’ and hygiene specialists’ perspective – A qualitative studyAbstract. Background: The COVID-19-pandemic is an unprecedented, ...
Information needs of family caregivers regarding new technologies for dementia care at home: A qualitative studyAbstract.Background: New technologies can support family caregivers in the home care of people with dementia ...
How do nurses describe timeliness in the delivery of nursing interventions? A qualitative studyAbstract:Background: Timeliness of nursing interventions is fundamental to professional medical care. Although nurses have ...
Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP) in the practice of mental health nursing in Germany: A phenomenological studyAbstract.Background: The wide variety and constantly changing selection of offered psychiatric care services, in ...
Between Fear and Hope: How Parents Experience the Decision-Making Process About Surgery for Their Child`s Epilepsy – A Qualitative StudyAbstract. Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological diseases of ...
Objective: To investigate helpful and stressful factors in coping with COPD of patients and their partners. Method: Nine COPD patients and their partners (9 couples) were interviewed. All interviews were audio taped and later transcribed and analysed ...