Sökning: "patient advocacy"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 avhandlingar innehållade orden patient advocacy.
1. Collective Patient Participation : Patient Voice and Civil Society Organizations in Healthcare
Sammanfattning : The importance of engaging patients in the development of healthcare services and policy has received increasing attention over the last decades. However, this attention has mainly been directed towards various forms of involvement of individual patients. LÄS MER
2. Perioperative patient advocacy : having the patient's best interests at heart
Sammanfattning : Patient advocacy implies taking action on someone else’s behalf, and has been described as a key element of nurses’ professional care. In the perioperative setting, it involves not only critical decision making, but also all the small things that the nurses do for the sake of the patients during their working day. LÄS MER
3. Sjuksköterskor som patienters företrädare : Med huvudsakligt fokus på företrädarskap för äldre patienter i kommunal hälso- och sjukvård
Sammanfattning : The overall aim was to study nurses’ and managers’ attitudes towards micro social patient advocacy (I) and factors related to patient advocacy (II, III) with the main focus being on advocacy in the care of older patients in community health care together with psychometric testing of the instrument 'Attitudes toward Patient Advocacy Scale-Attitudes toward MIcrosocial Advocacy' (IV).Methods: A quantiative cross-sectional study and a qualitative study were carried out. LÄS MER
4. Attitudes towards organ donor advocacy among Swedish intensive and critical care nurses
Sammanfattning : End-of-Life Care in the intensive and critical care unit (ICU) involves the rare situation of caring for brain dead persons who, by their death, become potential organ donors (POD). A consequence might be that end-of-life care continues into after-death care in order to facilitate organ donation (OD). LÄS MER
5. The shifting conditions of support groups in transition : an ethnography of respiratory disease in Northern England
Sammanfattning : Breathlessness is a condition we all know something about, as it is normal to get out of breath when physically overexerted. However, breathlessness may also be an abnormal manifestation commonly understood, assessed, and defined as the first vital symptom of respiratory disease-such as in asthma, bronchiectasis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or pulmonary fibrosis. LÄS MER
