Sökning: "integrity promoting care"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden integrity promoting care.
1. Integrity promoting care of demented patients
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the thesis was to investigate if integrity promoting care improves functions in demented patients over time. The Erikson (1982) theory of ”eight stages of man” was used as a basis for training of staff in a three-month intervention study (I-VI) at a nursing home ward. LÄS MER
2. Meeting ethical and nutritional challenges in elder care : the life world and system world of staff and high level decision-makers
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the thesis was to describe the issue of malnutrition and use it as a focal point of interest in elder care. A further aim was to illuminate how this issue could be addressed focusing on older adults’ integrity and high level decision-makers’ reasoning about ethically difficult situations (I-IV). LÄS MER
3. Upholding Older Adults' Innate and Inherent Dignity within a Caring Context
Sammanfattning : In the ethical ideals of autonomy and integrity reducing the level of abstraction is necessary in order to more easily be able to follow them in every day care practices. This is especially true concerning the effort of upholding older adult patients dignity. LÄS MER
4. Obstructed labour and Birth preparedness: Community studies from Uganda
Sammanfattning : Labour is said to be obstructed when the presenting part fails to descend through the birth canal despite strong uterine contractions. The condition is mostly prevalent in low-income countries where the main causes are cephalopelvic disproportion and malpresentation. LÄS MER
5. Patient with cancer : their preferences and experiences of participation in treatment and care decisions
Sammanfattning : The main aim of this thesis was to investigate preferences for participating in treatment decision-making in patients with colorectal cancer before treatment and at a one-year followup and to compare the relationship between these preferences and coping factors. An additional aim was to explore the patients' meaning of illness and their experiences of decision-making concerning treatment and care. LÄS MER