(2015). Experiences of Tenants with Serious Mental Illness Regarding Housing Support and Contextual Issues: A Meta-Synthesis. Issues in Mental Health Nursing: Vol. 36, No. 12, pp. 971-988. doi: 10.3109/01612840.2015.1067262
29 September 2020 in Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Mental health professionals have a responsibility to ensure the best possible quality of care. Family is strongly involved in the patient’s everyday life. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between health care professionals’ perception of the quality of care, attitudes of family involvement and their own sense of coherence. A descriptive quantitative study with fifty-six health professionals, completed “Quality in Psychiatric Care–Community Outpatient Psychiatric Staff”, “Families’ Importance in Nursing Care–health professionals’ attitudes”, “The Sense of Coherence Scale-13”. The health professionals perceived quality as high and did not perceive the families as a burden.
Aims: To explore and describe nurse educators' suggestions regarding a digital educational resource addressing quality in placement studies for first‐year student nurses in nursing homes.Design: A qualitative, explorative, and descriptive research design.Methods: Focus group interviews with eight nurse educators and individual interviews with six nurse educators. The interviews were audio‐recorded and transcribed verbatim; subsequently, data were analysed in lines with content analysis as described by Graneheim and Lundman.Results: The analysis revealed three main categories: ‘Suggestions for a digital educational resource to strengthen and support nurse educators’ role in follow‐up students', ‘Suggestions for a digital educational resource to complement and support interaction between stakeholders in placement’, and ‘Suggestions for a digital educational resource to facilitate student nurses' learning processes’. The categories were captured by the overarching theme, ‘A digital educational resource facilitating interaction between stakeholders and students' learning processes.Conclusion: This study revealed nurse educators' suggestions regarding design elements, content, and use of a digital educational resource addressing placement studies for first‐year student nurses' in nursing homes. Implications for the profession and/or patient care: Nurse educators should be involved in designing, developing, and implementing digital educational resources aiming to support student learning in nursing education placement studies.Impact: This study explored nurse educators' suggestions for a digital educational resource. They suggested a digital educational resource to strengthen and support their role, support interaction between stakeholders, and facilitate student nurses' learning processes. Further, they suggested a digital educational resource to be used as a supplement rather than as a replacement for nurse educators' physical presence in placements.Reporting method: The Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research reporting guidelines were used.No Patient or Public Contribution.
20 January 2023 in Issues in Mental Health Nursing
Nurses’ mental health care competence is vital for addressing the current mental health care crisis’ demand for quality in mental health care and services. These challenges also involve educational institutions. In the mental health course of the bachelor’s nursing curriculum, nurse educators face multiple tasks and challenges concerning preparing students for their clinical placement. This study aimed to explore and describe nurse educators’ pedagogical approaches across three universities. The study applied a qualitative and descriptive design, and data were collected from individual qualitative interviews with 13 experienced nurse educators. A content analysis approach in lines with Graneheim and Lundman was used to analyse the data. The content analysis resulted in one theme and three categories, and each category was characterised by three subcategories. The theme intentionally preparing student nurses for mental health care competence served as an overarching theme describing the educators’ overall reflections and descriptions. The three categories were: activating students for the mental health context; caring for students on a personal level; and supporting students in grasping the scope of nursing within the mental health context. These categories described the varieties and complexity of nurse educators’ pedagogical approaches addressing student nurses’ mental health care competence.
1 March 2018 in Journal of Housing For the Elderly
This study explored the experiences of healthy elderly regularly visiting the allotment gardens (AGs) in a large city of Norway. Semistructured interviews with eight elderly visitors were analyzed by applying Malterud's strategy for systematic text condensation. Three main themes evolved: AG as a context for social experience; AG as a context for restorative experiences; and AG as a context for reminiscence experiences. The findings underline the importance of AGs as a natural and cultural context and may encourage politicians and planners to take into consideration the importance of neighborhood outdoor contexts offering social, nature, and reminiscence experiences for elderly people.