Search for dissertations about: "integrity promoting care"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the words integrity promoting care.

2. 1. Integrity promoting care of demented patients

   Author : Mona Kihlgren; Astrid Norberg; Ingvar Karlsson; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Dementia; nursing home; collective living; staff training; the E. H. Erikson theory; integrity; interaction; hermeneutics; GBS - scale; somatostatin; EEG;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

4. 2. Meeting ethical and nutritional challenges in elder care : the life world and system world of staff and high level decision-makers

   Author : Anna-Greta Mamhidir; Högskolan i Gävle; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Ethical challenges; malnutrition; older adults; elder care staff; integrity promoting care; high level decision-makers; life world; system world.; Ethical challenges; malnutrition; older adults; elder care staff; integrity promoting care; high level decision-makers; life world; system world.;

   Abstract : 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). READ MORE

5. 3. Upholding Older Adults' Innate and Inherent Dignity within a Caring Context

   Author : Ingrid Randers; Anne-Cathrine Mattiasson; Mona Kihlgren; Sophiahemmet Högskola; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Autonomy; Integrity; Dignity; Geriatric health care; Cognitively intact patients; Teaching ethics; An activating instructional approach; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap; Autonomy; integrity; dignity; geriatric health care; cognitively intact patients; teaching ethics; an activating instructional approach;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

6. 4. Patient with cancer : their preferences and experiences of participation in treatment and care decisions

   Author : Ethel Ramfelt; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Patient participation; decision-making; preferences; compliant; sense of coherence; meaning of illness; interrelationship and dialogue.;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE

7. 5. Obstructed labour and Birth preparedness: Community studies from Uganda

   Author : Jerome Kabakyenga; Socialmedicin och global hälsa; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; obstructed labour; individual factors; health system factors; protecting own integrity; adverse outcomes; knowledge of danger signs; birth preparedness; assistance by skilled birth attendants; Uganda;

   Abstract : 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. READ MORE