Bente Nordtug

Nord University | HIBO · Nursing and Health Practice Programme

Aim: This study investigates what healthcare professionals experience is important for improving everyday life of people with dementia living at home. Background: A prerequisite for living at home is that people with dementia and their relatives can handle everyday life together despite the challenges that dementia poses. Methods: This qualita...

Aims and objective: To explore differences in nurses' attitudes regarding the importance of family in nursing care and factors associated with nurses' attitudes across 11 European countries. Background: Family involvement in healthcare has received attention in many European healthcare systems. Nurses have a unique opportunity to promote family...

Introduction As a part of the therapeutic relationship, a significant, well-established predictor of outcomes in psychiatric healthcare, healthcare professionals' emotional reactions to patients may affect treatment outcomes. Aim The aim of our study was to explore and describe healthcare professionals' experiences with managing countertransferenc...

Aim This study aimed to gain insight into factors that influence everyday coping strategies as described by persons with early to intermediate dementia. Background Living with dementia presents difficulties coping with everyday life. This study focuses on coping with everyday life for persons with mild to moderate dementia in order to facilitate t...

Patients with various forms of cancer often have unmet psychosocial support needs. By interpretative phenomenological approach, this study aimed to acquire a deeper understanding of home-living patients with cancer's experience and meaning from videoconferencing in oncological nursing follow-up in primary healthcare and contact with networks. Six p...

Purpose To explore the lived experiences of oncology nurses (ONs) during three months of virtual care provided through video conferencing (VC) in the follow-up care for home-living patients with cancer in rural Norway. Method An exploratory study employing a descriptive phenomenological approach conducted with a purposive sample of four ONs workin...

This qualitative study explores informal caregivers’ experiences of supporting persons with dementia’s everyday life coping. In the future, there will be fewer health personnel, increased dementia prevalence and limited nursing home availability. Accordingly, close relatives may be compelled to assume greater care responsibilities. Knowledge concer...

Introduction The society needs volunteers to fulfill its duty to ensure that people with dementia have active and meaningful everyday lives. Volunteers seem to experience their work as positive and meaningful for their own part, but we know less about what motivates volunteers to start working in home-dwelling dementia care and what motivates them...

Background: Cancer survival has increased significantly over the last decade. An increasing number of patients require long-term health care. There is a need for new models of effective follow-up in primary cancer care. Objective: The aim was to provide knowledge about oncology nurses’ (ONs’) experiences and perceptions of the use of video communic...

Healthcare workers' self-reported evaluation of ergonomic transfer training, use of techniques and aids in a municipality - a longitudinal pilot study Healthcare workers’ self-reported evaluation of ergonomic transfer training, use of techniques and aids in a municipality – a longitudinal pilot. Traditionally, healthcare work in nursing homes is r...

Background: This article examines personnel and patient experiences of videoconferencing (VC) trials on tablet computers between oncology certified nurses (OCNs) and patients with cancer who live at home. The study points to organizational pitfalls during the introduction process. In many different arenas, the use of VC has increased recently owin...

The aim of this literature review is to bring to the forefront knowledge about the suitability of videoconferencing in nursing for patients and their families living at home. A systematic literature review that included studies of videoconferencing in nursing care. Inclusion criteria were original studies relevant to concept of study. Computerized...

Previously we demonstrated that a 12-week lasting self-guided positive imagery training had a positive effect on the psycho-emotional state of healthy subjects and was associated with an increase in functional connectivity in the brain. Here we repeated the previous project, but expanded the study, testing the hypothesis that training can also affe...

Twelve persons with dementia were interviewed about their former work lives. Their motivation for choosing their past work was influenced by values of their contemporary culture. Those who had come to terms with their illness had positive feelings about their past contributions in their former paid work. However, they often felt that unpaid work wa...

The guided imagery training is considered as an effective method and therefore widely used in modern cognitive psychotherapy, while less is known about the effectiveness of self-guided. The present study investigated the effects of regular use of self-guided positive imagery, applying both subjective (assessment of the psycho-emotional state) and o...

Background: Nursing practice includes a lot of patient handling and transfer movement, with high risk of work related back injuries. The article discusses employee perspectives on the meaning of a multi-component intervention and its impact on ergonomic patient transfer practice and safety culture. Method: This was a qualitative study using content...

The prevalence of pain ranges from 27.8% to 86.5% in nursing homes and 42% to 50% in home care. Pain assessment is the first step toward effective pain management. The aim of this study was to explore the use of pain assessment strategies (verbal, numeric, and observation rating scales and standardized questions) in home care and nursing homes. The...

Stortingsmeldinger og utredninger viser et tydelig behov for endring i helsetjenesten og hjelperrollen i tiden som kommer. I Stortingsmelding nr 47 " Samhandlingsreformen " (HOD 2009) skisseres en klar dreining fra fokus på behandling og reparasjon, til fokus på helsefremming. Samtidig skal flere mennesker få hjelp der de bor (ibid). Dette medfører...

nordtug b., krokstad s., sletvold o. & holen a. (2013) Differences in social support of caregivers living with partners suffering from COPD or dementia. International Journal of Older People Nursing 8, 93–103 doi: 10.1111/j.1748-3743.2011.00302.x Background. Future patients with chronic diseases will probably remain longer in their homes. To enable...

The aim of this study was to explore caring burden of cohabitants (N = 206) having partners with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or dementia in relation to aspects of social support. Caring burden was measured by the Relative Stress Scale and was found to be lower and to change less with severity in the COPD group. In multiple regressi...

The interplay between personality, mental health and type of disease in explaining caring burden was studied in home-dwelling cohabitants of partners with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or dementia. A cross-sectional study including 206 participants with 80% response rate. Neuroticism was assessed by Eysenck Personality Questionnaire...