Sökning: "encountering patients"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 32 avhandlingar innehållade orden encountering patients.
1. Encountering Depression In-Depth : An existential-phenomenological approach to selfhood, depression, and psychiatric practice
Sammanfattning : This dissertation in Theory of Practical Knowledge contends that depression is a disorder of the self. Using the existential-phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I argue that if we want to disclose the basic structure of depressed experience, then we must likewise disclose how selfexperience is inseparable from depressed experience. LÄS MER
2. Encounters with patients in forensic inpatient care : Nurses lived experiences of patient encounters and compassion in forensic inpatient care
Sammanfattning : Background: Forensic psychiatry is characterised by compulsory care and long hospital stays, where nurses care for patients with severe mental illness, who often have committed crimes. The main objective is to rehabilitate the patient to once again become a part of society by improving mental health and decreasing the risk of criminal relapse. LÄS MER
3. Encountering ethical problems and moral distress as a nurse : Experiences, contributing factors and handling
Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis was to explore and describe what nurses find ethically problematic and morally distressing in their work, the factors contributing to the arising of ethically problematic situations and the actions reported taken in order to handle them, thus creating an ethical climate.Descriptive as well as correlational and exploratory designs were employed in the four papers on which this thesis is based. LÄS MER
4. Clinical and economic features of categories of patients in defined populations
Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the use of information from health care registers on an individual level, making it possible to elucidate the morbidity and comorbidity patterns in defined populations, and to allocate resources in primary health care (PHC) on this basis. Study I aimed at assessing the annual direct and indirect costs of skin diseases caused by ultraviolet radiation. LÄS MER
5. Icelandic patients in oncology outpatient care: Distress, coping and satisfaction with care
Sammanfattning : This study was conducted at three oncology outpatient clinics in Iceland. The overall aim was to investigate outpatient psychosocial distress, coping strategies and satisfaction with care and to explore patients? experiences of having cancer while receiving treatment. LÄS MER