Kirsti Skovdahl

University of South-Eastern Norway | USN · Department of Nursing and Health Sciences

Purpose To develop a tailored newborn resuscitation course for midwifery students. Patients and Methods A qualitative study using an explorative, abductive approach was applied. Co-creation through workshops was facilitated to develop a tailored newborn resuscitation course for midwifery students. Four workshops with midwifery students and midwive...

Objective: To explore midwives' perceptions about what constitutes necessary content and methods of instruction in a newborn resuscitation programme tailored for midwifery students. Design: A qualitative study, using an exploratory, interpretive design. Participants and setting: Sixteen midwives with experiences in high-risk and midwifery-led mater...

Aim: To describe older persons' experiences of a cognitive assessment and possible neuropsychiatric symptoms [NPS] related to a neurocognitive diagnosis. Background: A cognitive assessment in primary care is offered to persons with suspected dementia with subsequent referral to a specialist clinic if required. The assessment process, with the li...

Background Reablement, also known as restorative care, supports older adults in regaining or maintaining their independence in daily life through the optimization of functional ability. Users’ goals and healthcare professionals’ use of a “hands-off” approach are key, thus user involvement is central to reablement logic. The aim of this study was to...

In recent years, there has been a shift in orientation towards person-centredness as part of a global move towards humanising and centralising the person within healthcare. Person-centredness, underpinned by robust philosophical and theoretical concepts, has an increasingly solid footprint in policy and practice, but research and education lag behi...

Purpose To explore midwives’ experiences in performing newborn resuscitation on maternity wards. Patients and Methods It was a qualitative study, using a phenomenological hermeneutic approach. Individual interviews with 16 clinical midwives working in Norwegian maternity wards were conducted from August 2018 to January 2019. Results The complexit...

Nurses' clinical competence is crucial to ensure that elderly, frail patients in nursing homes are met with high-quality nursing care. Thus, this study aimed to disclose the essential meaning of registered nurses' experiences as related to their clinical competence when caring for elderly patients with complex health needs in nursing homes. Focus g...

User involvement is increasingly common in health-care research, and the ideal is user participation and influence during all research stages. Here we describe and reflect on the processes and outcomes associated with advisory group–researcher collaboration from a person-centred perspective. When planning a study in which older adults’ experiences...

Aim: To describe older persons who had commenced a memory assessment, experiences of living with memory impairment and related symptoms. Background: Persons with subjective memory impairment are two times more likely to develop dementia over the years than their peers. Older persons seldom seek help from primary health care clinics solely for su...

Background: In the associated article in this special issue of the International Practice Development Journal, Phelan et al. (2020) offer an analysis of the global positioning of person-centredness from a strategic policy perspective. This second article, an international person-centred education curriculum development initiative, builds on that fo...

This study aimed to describe the wayfinding strategies used during outdoor walks by people with Alzheimer’s disease. Inspired by an ethnographic approach, observations and conversations during repeated outdoor walks with five people with Alzheimer’s disease living in their own homes were conducted. Data were analyzed using qualitative content analy...

Aim: To describe family members' experiences of living with persons with neuropsychiatric symptoms (NPS) related to frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Background: The majority of persons with dementia during the disease trajectory develop NPS. Persons with FTD are likely to develop greater levels of NPS than persons with other types of dementias. Re...

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore and describe ways of experiencing and perceiving the Eastern African practice of infant dental enucleation (IDE) among immigrants of Somali origin living in Sweden. Material and methods: Six informants, three men and three women aged 26–54 years, were recruited for semi-structured individual interview...

Background Collaboration with care partners is a political aim in recent white papers in Norway and internationally. Home care services regularly work closely with care partners, but there are many indications that the collaboration does not work satisfactorily. Aim To explore home care staff and leaders’ experiences of collaborating with care par...

Many welfare states offer reablement, also known as restorative care, as an intervention to promote healthy ageing and support older adults in regaining or maintaining their independence in daily life. Reablement is a time‐limited, intensive, multidisciplinary, person‐centred and goal‐directed rehabilitative intervention. Reablement emanates from t...

Background: The general opinion in society is that everyone has the right to live in their own home as long as possible. Provision of community home health care services is therefore increasingly common. Healthcare personnel encounter ethically difficult situations when providing care, but few studies describe such situations in the context of comm...

Objectives To explore the lived experiences and support needs of the care partners of older people with mental health problems living at home with assistance from home care services. Care partners face significant challenges in their care role and they often feel unsupported. An understanding of their experiences may help improve home care to suppo...

Purpose: To examine self-rated knowledge of clinical experiences and attitudes towards the practice of infant dental enucleation among dental and health care personnel in Sweden. Methods: A questionnaire survey was performed among 776 licensed dental and health care personnel working in emergency departments, midwifery, child health centres, sch...

Background Identifying how persons with dementia experience lived space is important for enabling supportive living environments and creating communities that compensate for the fading capabilities of these persons. Several single studies have explored this topic; however, few studies have attempted to explicitly review and synthesize this research...

This study describes which clinical ethics approaches are available to support healthcare personnel in clinical practice in terms of their construction, functions and goals. Healthcare personnel frequently face ethically difficult situations in the course of their work and these issues cover a wide range of areas from prenatal care to end-of-life c...

Aims and objectives: To identify and synthesise the needs of care partners of older people living at home with assistance from home care services. Background: "Aging in place" is a promoted concept where care partners and home care services play significant roles. Identifying the needs of care partners and finding systematic ways of meeting them...

Persons with dementia, who reside in their own homes, are often cared for by family members. The presence of a family career is said to have a protective effect, postponing admissions to residential care. The majority of persons with dementia develop behavioural and personality changes during the disease trajectory also known as neuropsychiatric sy...

Bakgrunn: Hverdagsrehabilitering er tverrfaglig, målrettet og tidsbegrenset og skjer i brukerens hjem og nærmiljø. Det er begrenset kunnskap om eldres opplevelser og erfaringer med hverdagsrehabilitering Hensikt: Å beskrive og utforske eldre personers erfaringer med hverdagsrehabilitering Design og metode: Studien har et kvalitativt, beskrivende de...

ABSTRACT Background: There is need for meaningful day care programme for persons with dementia, as well as an alternative and more flexible form of relief for relatives. The Care Farm programme may offer such services, but there is also the need for more knowledge about relatives’ experiences with the programme. Objective: To build on the knowledge...

Background: Dementia influences a person's experience of social relationships, as described in several studies. In this systematic meta-synthesis of qualitative studies, we aim to interpret and synthesize the experiences of persons with dementias and their relations with others. Summary: Living with dementia changes life, leading to new social r...

Background: Maintaining independence in activities of daily living, including when eating meals, may be challenging for persons with dementia. To uphold person-centred care there is a need for knowledge of how to facilitate mealtimes in such circumstances. Aims: To develop knowledge of how nurses promote independence at mealtimes for persons with...

Aims and objectives: To explore and describe how spouses involve themselves in the relationship with their partners with dementia who live in institutional care. Background: Positive reciprocity between partners has been proven to be significant for spouses with partners living with dementia at home. However, little is known about spousal involv...

Aims: To test the relationship between greenery in gardens at residential facilities for older people and the self-perceived health of residents, mediated by experiences of being away and fascination when in the garden and the frequency of visitation there. To examine how these indirect effects vary with the number of physical barriers to visiting...

Background: Problems with memory and decline in cognitive abilities are common during development of dementia. Different kinds of technologies may be useful in supporting persons with dementia and their relatives in daily life. Tracking technologies have the potential to improve independence among persons with dementia. Consequently, the aim of th...

Background: Nurses' clinical competence is vital to ensure safe and high quality care, and the continuous assessment of nurses' clinical competence is of major concern. A validated instrument for the self-assessment of nurses' clinical competence at different educational levels across specialties and countries is lacking. The aim of this study was...

Ålesund kommune har systematisk gjennomført forbyggende hjemmebesøk siden 2001 og er en av de kommunene i landet som har lengst erfaring når det gjelder denne formen for tilbud til eldre. Hensikten med denne artikkelen er å utdype kunnskapene om de eldres og fagpersonalet/lederes erfaringer fra forebyggende hjemmebesøk i Ålesund kommune, og å peke...

Background: Reorganization and downsizing can disrupt a competent staff and conflicts can arise between what the employee is being asked to do and their knowledge and competences. Reduced job satisfaction among nursing home staff with increased workload and strain can occur. Aim and Objectives: The aim was to investigate the organizational climate...

Aims and objectivesTo explore and describe spouses’ experiences of losing couplehood with their dementia-afflicted partner living in institutional care.Background Despite the losses and experiences of discontinuity due to the cognitive decline caused by dementia, the feelings of belonging and reciprocity in close relationships are still crucial to...

Objectives: To investigate the effects of using tracking technology on independent outdoor activities and psychological well-being in 3 persons with dementia (PwDs) and their spouses. Methods: Three experimental single-case studies with an A1B1A2B2 design. The intervention entailed access to a passive positioning alarm and technical support. Con...

Aim and Objectives: To increase the understanding of next of kin's life situation in the context of supporting persons who are long term ill, disabled and/or older by describing their experienced burden and quality of life and also the relationship between QoL, burden and socioeconomic variables. Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive and correlativ...

This article aims to describe the characteristics of and design elements in gardens/patios at 87 residential living homes for older people and to describe and compare residents’ and staff members’ perceptions of outdoor spaces. The aim was also to investigate factors related to residents' satisfaction with and stays in the garden/patio. The result...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe how persons with early-stage dementia reflect on being outdoors. Method: Data were collected through repeated interviews with a purposive sample of 11 persons with early-stage dementia in Sweden during the period 2009-2010 and were analysed using qualitative content analysis. Results: Informant...

Background Increasingly, information and communication technology is being used to support persons with dementia living at home and their relatives. The aim of the present intervention study was to describe and explore the use and experiences of using a passive positioning alarm, over time, in daily life among persons with dementia and their spouse...

Background: Making changes to municipal social care and service has been found to be challenging to realise and highly multifaceted. The aim of this study was to describe how the professionals can identify needs for improvement and improve Food Distribution (FD) service for the home-living elderly people in Sweden. Methods: This study is part of a...

Aim: To identify factors that affected the learning outcomes from Marte Meo counselling (MMC). Background: Although MMC has shown promising results regarding learning outcomes for staff working in dementia-specific care units, the outcomes differ. Method: Twelve individual interviews and four focus group interviews with staff who had participa...

Background: Research focusing on Food Distribution (FD) from various professionals' and organisational perspectives are lacking. The aim of this study was therefore to explore various professionals' experiences of involvement in FD in order to get comprehensive understanding of the organisation, responsibilities and roles.

Background: Research focusing on Food Distribution (FD) from various professionals’ and organisational perspectivesare lacking. The aim of this study was therefore to explore various professionals’ experiences of involvement in FD inorder to get comprehensive understanding of the organisation, responsibilities and roles. Methods: This qualitative s...

The growing aging population, with its associated complex needs and illnesses, will in the future become an even more important challenge for the Nordic countries. The aim of the study was to describe and explore the perceptions and views of top-level managers and politicians in regard to an optimal future care for older people during the next deca...

Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 69 home alone due to difficulties getting out of the house, which was associated with the costs of taxis transportation. Gratitude was expressed by the sincere thanks for the possibility of receiving traditional meals delivered daily. The major conclusion of the study was the indication that gre...

nr 1-2011, 7. årgang __________________________________________________________________________________________ 77 "Med mobilen i lomma" Pårørendes erfaringer når en av deres naere dør i sykehjem May Helen Midtbust, Else Lykkeslet og Kirsti Skovdahl May Helen Midtbust, Høgskolen i Ålesund, institutt for helsefag Else Lykkeslet, Høgskolen i Molde, a...

Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 69 home alone due to difficulties getting out of the house, which was associated with the costs of taxis transportation. Gratitude was expressed by the sincere thanks for the possibility of receiving traditional meals delivered daily. The major conclusion of the study was the indication that gre...

Marte Meo Counselling (MMC) is an educational video-based counselling method developed to improve interactions between persons. This study aimed at investigating whether changes could be identified in the interactions between people with dementia and their nurses during morning care, following MMC. An intervention study based on video recordings be...

Aim: The present paper reports on a study aimed at describing relatives' reflections on different kinds of information and communication technology (ICT) devices that are used or can be used in the daily care of persons with dementia. Background: Many persons with dementia continue living in their own homes, which requires the support of their r...

I dag og i årene fremover har helsevesenet store omsorgsutfordringer knyttet til økningen av antall eldre i befolkningen. En stor andel eldre avslutter livet i sykehjem, og de fleste har pårørende hos seg i tiden rundt dødsfallet. Hensikten med studien var å øke forståelsen for hvordan det erfares å være pårørende ved livets slutt i sykehjem, og å...

This study sought to uncover what nurses perceived to have learned, during their participation in video supported counselling, based on Marte Meo principles, in four dementia specific care units. This was a descriptive qualitative study. Data were collected through 12 individual and four focus group interviews. In addition, supplementary data from...

The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of demanding behaviours in persons ≥65 years receiving home care or living in sheltered accommodation at two points in time, 1993 and 2002. Another aim was to investigate whether the perceived workload in staff had changed during this period. All persons ≥65 years living at home and utilizing...

Aim. This study aimed to describe from documentation both the caregivers’ experiences of giving tactile stimulation to five people with moderate-to-severe dementia and who showed aggressive or restless tendencies, and the changes seen in them. Background. Clinical experiences indicate that tactile stimulation can contribute to a feeling of trust an...

The aim of the study was to investigate, from the narratives of nine enrolled nurses and one nurses' aide directly involved in patient care, the deeper meaning of work satisfaction and dissatisfaction when working with the older people. Both nationally and internationally, there is little research documented regarding the working situation of the e...

In Sweden and internationally, little research has focused on the working situation of Enrolled Nurses and Nurses' Aides who form the majority of workers in geriatric care today. With this in mind, it is important to focus on how these occupational groups experience their working situation with older residents in municipal care. The aim of the stud...

The aim of this study was to describe, through observations and interviews with patients >/=75 years old and the relatives who accompanied them to the hospital, the conditions at the emergency department (ED) and the events that took place during the waiting period. Twenty older patients were studied, together with their relatives. A modification o...

In a previous study, nine caregivers and two residents with dementia showing aggressive behaviour, were video recorded. Caregivers who reported problems when dealing with such behaviour and caregivers, who did not, were included in this study. The aim of the present study was to obtain insight into the reasoning of the caregivers who had reported p...

The aim of the study was to illuminate, from video recorded sequences, interactions between individuals with dementia and aggressive behaviour and caregivers who reported problems dealing with such behaviour and caregivers who did not. Nine caregivers and two residents participated. • The video recordings were later transcribed into text and analys...

This study highlights the experiences of 15 formal caregivers, during interactions with elderly residents suffering from dementia disease and showing aggressive behaviour. The purpose was to study caregivers' reflections about and attitudes to behavioural and psychiatric symptoms of dementia (BPSD) and how they dealt with the symptoms. This was don...

The Swedish government implemented a reform, the Adel reform, in the care of older citizens in 1992, so that the communities where older people live became responsible for their care and housing. Nurses were appointed to make sure that older people were given accurate care and to act as supervisors for nurses' aides. • In this study, 10 Registered...