Using postfoundational and postqualitative frameworks, this dissertation considers what materializes when four child care centres adopt a multiage grouping structure, which includes children born in four consecutive years in each centre. The research question asks how do children live their lives in multiaged child care? To explore that question, the study challenges developmentalism as the dominant principle for organizing child care groupings. Engaging with three theoretical concepts, caring relations, dwelling, and becoming, the dissertation further questions: a) what characterizes relationships in these multi-aged centres? b) how do children negotiate through the curriculum in the centres? c) how can the children’s transformations be conceptualized in postdevelopmental theory/practice? This action research project employs the process of pedagogical narrations to story three ordinary moments that occurred in the child care centres. The pedagogical narrations process extends those storied moments through the critical reflections of the caregivers who work in the centres. The analytic process, thinking with theory, plugs-in the three concepts, caring relations, dwelling, and becoming, to the stories, producing beyond-developmental understandings of children, childhood, and child care. The study demonstrates pedagogical narrations as an effective postqualitative methodology for caregivers to research their own practices. This study concludes that child care structures such as age groupings, require situated ethics of care and responsibility, as well as, an early years reconceptualized curriculum that resists universalizing and normalizing practices in favour of situated ones. Considering caring relations, in spaces for young children, provides a context for thinking beyond simply, and only, adults caring for children, to thinking of children in relations of care with place, other non-human beings and non-living things, as well as other people, including other children and adults. Thinking with the dwelling concept encourages an attention to the present in early years settings, allowing more-than-developmental interests to flourish. Thinking becoming means thinking becoming-other, and positions subjectivities, including those of children, caregivers and place as unstable, shifting, and in relation. / Graduate

Bakgrund Endokardit är dagsläget en relativt sällsynt infektionssjukdom som drabbar hjärtat och framförallt hjärtklaffarna. I Sverige drabbas årligen cirka 500 personer och överlevnaden med adekvat behandling ligger på cirka 80-90%. Endokardit är ett komplext sjukdomstillstånd med ofta kräver expertis från många olika specialister. Vårdtiden är lång och inte sällan med olika former av komplikationer som följd. Syftet med studien var att beskriva omvårdnaden av patienter med endokardit från ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv.Metoden som användes var en kvalitativ metod med beskrivande design. Intervjuer med strategiskt ändamålsurval som använt sig av inklusions- och exklusions kriterier har genomförts. Sex sjuksköterskor från olika bakgrund, kön och arbetsplatser deltog i studien. Datan som framkom analyserades genom manifest innehållsanalys med till viss del latenta inslag.Resultatet visar informanternas beskrivning av omvårdnad kring patienter med endokardit ur ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv. Detta ses i resultatets tre huvud kategorier: Patientens förutsättningar, organisationens förutsättningar, sjuksköterskans förutsättningar. Alla kategorierna påvisar hur komplex omvårdnad kring denna patientgrupp är utifrån ett sjuksköterskeperspektiv. Slutsats av studien visar att begreppet omvårdnad är ett svårtolkat begrepp även för erfarna sjuksköterskor. Patienter med ett tidigare missbruk är en speciellt sårbar grupp att hantera, där behöver arbetet ske med tanke på deras missbruk samtidigt som behandlingen av endokardit fortgår. Hur väl omvårdnadsmässigt infektionsavdelningar i Mellansverige tar hand om och behandlar patienter med endokardit beror till stor del på vilka resurser sjukhuset har samt hur stor erfarenhet de sjuksköterskor som arbetar där har av att vårda patienter med endokardit. / Background endocarditis is a relatively uncommon diagnosis compared to other infectious diseases. Endocarditis affects the heart muscle but is mainly situated in the heart valves. In Sweden today about 500 persons are affected annually, with adequate treatment and care the survival rate is high within 80-90% of all cases. Endocarditis is a complex disease that requires treatment and care from multiple specialists, the time spent in hospital is long compared to other diseases and is often prolonged by complications of the treatment.The Aim of the study was to describe the caring of patients with endocarditis from a nurse’s perspective.The method used was a qualitative analysis using descriptive design, with the use of strategic purposeful sampling with help of inclusion and exclusions criterias. Six Nurses from different backgrounds, genders and workplaces participated in the interview study. The data analysis was conducted using manifest content analysis with some grade of latent analysis included.The Result showed how the informants of the study described caring for patients with endocarditis from a nurses point of view. This is explained by the three major categories: Patients conditions, The Organisations prerequisite and the Nursing staffs experienced and educational level. They all tell about the complexity of caring for patients with endocarditis.The Conclusion of the study showed that Nursing care and the term caring itself are terms that are somewhat hard to grasp because of their wide meaning in the Nursing community. Patients with predeveloped addiction to some sort of drug is a special group of patients to handle, especially when they are infected by endocarditis. Since they have to be cared for in their addiction as well as their infection. How well nurses on infections wards in Sweden care for patients affected by endocarditis depends a lot on what other resources the hospital has and on the experienced level of the nurses working there.

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