AIM
To report a study of the lived experience of being a close relative to a patient with colon cancer participating in a fast-track programme.
BACKGROUND
Studies have documented that postoperative… (More)
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of this study was to explore caregivers' experience of assisted feeding.
BACKGROUND
Assisted feeding presupposes a technical and creative coordination of the behaviour… (More)
AIM
This paper is a report of a study to explore the meaning of assisted feeding through the experiences of people with high cervical spinal cord injury. Background. Eating difficulties are known to… (More)
Being dependent on care in a hospital or in a traditional homecare setting may generate an experience of inferiority in patients. In a private home, dependence is easier to bear if the dependent… (More)
This study explores the lived experience of losing a leg as described by the patients themselves post-discharge. Studies have documented that regardless of aetiology patients are faced with severe… (More)
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To explore nurses' and nurse assistants' beliefs, attitudes and actions related to their function in an inpatient stroke rehabilitation unit.
BACKGROUND
Several attempts have… (More)
The creative processes of understanding patients' experiences in phenomenological research are difficult to articulate. Drawing on life philosophy as represented by the Danish philosopher K.E.… (More)
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
To examine the environment surrounding hospital meals for patients with neurological diseases.
BACKGROUND
A determined effort has been made to optimise the nutrition of… (More)
PURPOSE
Over the past two decades, attempts have been made to describe the nurse's role and functions in the inpatient stroke rehabilitation; however, the nursing contribution is neither clear nor… (More)
Aim
To assess the feasibility of a nursing educational intervention for inpatient stroke rehabilitation and its acceptability from the nursing staff's perspective.
Background
There is currently a… (More)