Abstract.Background and objective: Assistive technologies might be a suitable option for supporting people with dementia and their informal caregivers. To avoid “one-fits-all”-solutions and to design useful technologies, it ...
The relations between the nurses and relatives in the Intensive Care Unit is not always without problems, even if nursing theories unanimously advocate that the nursing staff is responsible for the care of these relatives. Since up to now only marginal ...
Interprofessional collaboration from nurses and physicians – A triangulation of quantitative and qualitative dataAbstract. Background: Interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians is a recurrent challenge in daily clinical practice. To ...
As part of their Master’s degree course in Nursing Science at the Private University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology (UMIT), the authors carried out a quantitative (written questionnaire) and qualitative (semi-structured interviews)...
Research results show that health literacy is an important concept in nursing. It has a positive effect on the health of individuals as well as on the costs of the healthcare system. The results of a comprehensive literature search (1980 - March 2009) ...
Technology commitment in outpatient careAbstract. Background: New technologies are becoming increasingly important in outpatient care. The willingness of professional carers to use new technologies is often considered to be ...
“One always has to be watchful”: Categorisation of patient-related complexity of nursing care in acute care hospitalsAbstract.Background: The increase of chronic illnesses and multimorbidity as well as more ...
Working conditions of nurses in general palliative care in Germany – A cross-sectional surveyAbstract. Background: Most terminally ill people are treated within general palliative care including outpatient care, ...
Self-management in chronic illness has been discussed internationally for some time now. It has become increasingly important in German speaking countries as well. During the last years programs for self-management support have been developed with good ...
Delirium is an acute decline in attention and cognition. To make a diagnosis, there are two classification systems: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10). While the ...
In 2000, the Institute of Nursing Science in Basel started with a clinically oriented Master programme in Advanced Nursing Practice (ANP). The nursing expertise achieved with this degree includes enhanced skills and know-how in a specialised area. ...
The relevance of nurses' attitudes for establishing an evidence-based nursing practice (EBP) has been proven internationally. For German-speaking countries so far only few data are available. The present survey aims at assessing nurses' perceptions of ...
Background: Families influence the wellbeing of patients and are influenced by illness themselves. Involving caregivers in patient care was examined in multiple studies. Aim: The aim of this literature review was to investigate the different approaches to ...
Testing clinical competencies in undergraduate nursing education using Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) – a literature review of international practiceAbstract. Background: In response to demographic trends in Germany nursing ...
Medication safety in the home care setting: Development and piloting of a Critical Incident Reporting SystemAbstract. Background: While drug-related problems are among the most frequent adverse events in health care, little is known about their type and ...
Older persons’ and their families’ experience with live-in foreign home care workers: a grounded theory studyAbstract. Background: Live-in arrangements with migrant care workers have considerably increased over the last years since they allow older ...