Faculty of Health Sciences: Recent submissions
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Reduction in omission events after implementing a Rapid Response System: a mortality review in a department of gastrointestinal surgery
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-02)Background Hospitals worldwide have implemented Rapid Response Systems (RRS) to facilitate early recognition and prompt response by trained personnel to deteriorating patients. A key concept of this system is that it ... -
Understanding registered nurses’ career choices in home care services: a qualitative study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-03)Background The anticipated growth in number of older people with long-term health problems is associated with a greater need for registered nurses. Home care services needs enough nurses that can deliver high quality ... -
Fetal to Neonatal Heart Rate Transition during Normal Vaginal Deliveries: A Prospective Observational Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Documentation of fetal to neonatal heart rate (HR) transition is limited. The aim of the current study was to describe HR changes from one hour before to one hour after normal vaginal deliveries. We conducted a prospective ... -
The Relations between Resilience and Self-efficacy among Healthcare Practitioners, in Context of COVID-19 Pandemic - A Rapid Review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose The purpose of this rapid review was to present current evidence on relations between resilience and self-efficacy among healthcare practitioners in the context of COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approa ... -
LGBTQ+ Persons’ Experiences of Parenthood in the Context of Maternal and Child Health Care: A Meta-ethnography
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-06)This study aims to integrate and synthesize knowledge of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) persons’ experiences of parenthood in the context of maternal and child health care. For nurses to provide ... -
Ethics of care in technology-mediated healthcare practices: A scoping review
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Introducing new technologies into healthcare practices may challenge professionals' traditional care cultures. The aim of this review was to map how the ‘ethics of care’ theoretical framework informs empirical ... -
Learning does not just happen: establishing learning principles for tools to translate resilience into practice, based on a participatory approach
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background Theories of learning are of clear importance to resilience in healthcare since the ability to successfully adapt and improve patient care is closely linked to the ability to understand what happens and why. ... -
The Relative Importance of Family, School, and Leisure Activities for the Mental Wellbeing of Adolescents: The Young-HUNT Study in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)It is well-known that the social environment in which children and adolescents live and grow has an impact on their mental wellbeing, though the relative importance of different social contexts may vary. In the present ... -
Epistemic discourses concerning the competence developed in a Norwegian master's degree program in health science
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)It has been claimed that various discourses related to competence influence higher education, but there is limited understanding of the discourses underlying competence development. The specific aim of this study was to ... -
The Metamorphosis. The impact of a young family member's problematic substance use on family life: A meta.ethnography
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Purpose This meta-ethnography seeks to provide insight into the impact that a young family member’s problematic substance use has on family life. Background Problematic substance use (PSU) usually emerges in adolescence ... -
The role of local context for managers’ strategies when adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic in Norwegian homecare services: a multiple case study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Background The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on healthcare systems around the world, and lack of resources, lack of adequate preparedness and infection control equipment have been highlighted as common challenges. ... -
Eldre pasientens opplevelse av delirium og sykepleieres utfordringer i møte med dem
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Sammendrag Bakgrunn. En jevn økning innleggelse av eldre i Norge krever avansert kompetanse og mer helsepersonell kapasitet. Flere av disse pasientene er deliriøse og krever mer kompetanse og oppfølging. Mange undersøkelse ... -
Hvordan kan sykepleier forebygge fall blant eldre om anses å ha en fallrisiko i sykehjem?
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Bakgrunn Fall og fallskader er et stort helseproblem. I sykehjem faller nesten 50% hvert år, konsekvensene ved fall kan være fatale og bidrar til redusert livskvalitet. Hensikt Oppgaven har til hensikt å beskrive hvordan ... -
Eldre pasientens opplevelse av delirium og sykepleieres utfordringer i møte med dem
(Bachelor thesis, 2023)Sammendrag Bakgrunn. En jevn økning innleggelse av eldre i Norge krever avansert kompetanse og mer helsepersonell kapasitet. Flere av disse pasientene er deliriøse og krever mer kompetanse og oppfølging. Mange undersøkelse ... -
Learning from experience: a qualitative study of surgeons’ perspectives on reporting and dealing with serious adverse events
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-06)Introduction In surgery, serious adverse events have effects on the patient journey, the patient outcome and may constitute a burden to the surgeon involved. This study aims to investigate facilitators and barriers to ... -
Emergency pediatric patients and use of the pediatric assessment triangle tool. A scoping review.
(Studentoppgave/UIS-HV/2022;, Master thesis, 2022-11-01)Abstract Background: Assessing a pediatric emergency patient may be challenging and require competence and skills. The Pediatric Assessment Triangle (PAT) tool is an efficient and reliable observational way of assessing ... -
Within-patient and global evolutionary dynamics of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST17
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type (ST) 17 is a global problem clone that causes multidrug-resistant (MDR) hospital infections worldwide. In 2008–2009, an outbreak of MDR ST17 occurred at a neonatal intensive care unit ... -
Dementia with Lewy Bodies Drug Therapies in Clinical Trials: Systematic Review up to 2022
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Introduction Reviews of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are essential for informing ongoing research efforts of symptomatic therapies and potentially disease-modifying therapies ... -
Clinical and neuroimaging prognostic markers in Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy Body Dementia: The role of muscle status and nutrition
(PhD thesis UiS;, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Alzheimer's Disease and Lewy body dementia are the two most common neurodegenerative dementias. They have a progressive course with devastating consequences for the people living with these diseases and their families, but ... -
Finnes det en metode for etablering av intraossøs tilgang som er overlegen andre metoder? En sammenlikning av 3 forskjellige intraossøse verktøy
(Master thesis, 2023)Sammendrag Bakgrunn I situasjoner som omhandler akutt sykdom eller skade er tiden ofte en kritisk faktor, og det er flere tidstyver akuttmedisinsk personell må vokte seg for. Intravenøs tilgang kan både være tidkrevende ...