Arbetet handlar om hur musik kan påverka människans känslor och fantasier och hur man kan skapa musik för att väcka en specifik känsla hos lyssnaren. Syftet med arbetet är att försöka förstå varför man blir påverkad på ett visst sätt av olika sorters musik och framför allt om det går att förmedla specifika känslor till den generella lyssnaren. Arbetet består dels av själva uppsatsen, men även skapandet av sju olika musikstycken som 128 försökspersoner har fått lyssna på. Styckena är från olika genrer: drama, komedi, kärlek, skräck, action, fantasy samt slutligen äventyr. Personerna har fått lyssna på musiken för att sedan försöka hitta rätt genre. Intervjuer har också skett med nio personer, alla med bakgrund inom filmbranschen. Detta för att få veta hur de ser på skapandet av filmmusik. Efter att ha tagit del av försökspersonernas svar kan man konstatera att det går att förmedla olika känslor med musik, även om det inte lyckades fullt ut. Många gånger gavs svar som var i linje med mina egna tankar. I andra fall fanns det en fascinerande nästan exakt koppling till mina tankar kring musikstyckena. / The work is about how music can affect the feelings and fantasies of people listening to it and how music can awaken a specific emotion for the listener. The purpose of the work is to understand why different kind of music can affect people in a certain way, and above all, if it is possible to convey specific emotions to the general listener. The work is made up of the essay itself but also the creation of seven music pieces that 128 subjects have listened to. The music pieces are from different genres: drama, comedy, romance, horror, action, fantasy and finally adventure. The people first got to listen to the music and then try to figure out the right genre to every song. There have also been interviews with nine people, all with a background within the film industry. The reason for this was to get to know how they look at the creation of movie soundtrack. After having examined the subjects’ answers it can be seen that it is possible to convey a specific emotion to a specific song, although not fully succeeded. A lot of the time answers were given that were in line with my own thoughts. In other cases there were a fascinating, almost precise connection to my own thoughts and feelings around the music pieces.

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Sjuksköterskor upplever stora krav och stor belastning i sitt dagliga arbete, dels från patienter, dels från kollegor och dels från sig själva vilket gör att de ofta känner sig otillräckliga. Den stora fysiska och psykiska belastningen leder till att sjuksköterskor känner oro över kvaliteten på vården vilket ger upphov till moralisk stress. Sjuksköterskor upplever moralisk stress i högre grad än andra professioner och är en betydande orsak till att sjuksköterskor avslutar sin anställning. I tidigare forskning har få studier moralisk stress som huvudsyfte. Därför syftar denna allmänna litteraturstudie till att undersöka närmare vad sjuksköterskan upplever i sin moraliska stress. Syftet var att beskriva sjuksköterskans upplevelser av moralisk stress. För att besvara syftet valdes 13 kvalitativa vetenskapliga artiklar ut. I resultatet framkom sex kategorier: Maktlöshet, Frustration, Vånda, Ilska, Självtvivel och Skuld. Maktlöshet har en betydande roll och många av de andra känslorna bottnar i maktlösheten. Maktlöshet beror framförallt på att sjuksköterskan inte känner sig delaktig i beslutsfattandet kring patienten. För att minska sjuksköterskans moraliska stress kan samverkan mellan professioner främjas. Vidare svensk forskning kan behövas för att identifiera om moralisk stress är en bidragande orsak till rådande sjuksköterskebrist. / Nurses are experiencing huge demands and big loads in their daily work, both from patients and from colleagues and from themselves so that they often feel inadequate. This great physical and psychological workload means that nurses are concerned about the quality of care which gives rise to the moral distress. Nurses are experiencing this moral distress at greater extent than other professions and is a major reason why nurses quit their jobs. In previous research, few studies have moral distress as their main purpose. Therefore this general literature review intends to look more closely at what the nurse is experiencing in his or her moral distress. The purpose was to describe the nurse's experiences of moral distress. For this purpose, 13 qualitative research articles were selected and the results revealed six categories: Powerlessness, Frustration, Agony, Anger, Self-doubt and Guilt. Powerlessness has a significant role and contributed to many of the other emotions listed. Powerlessness is mainly due to the nurse not feeling involved in decision-making regarding the patient. To reduce the nurse's moral distress collaboration between professions could be encouraged. Further Swedish research could be needed to identify whether moral distress is a contributing factor to the current nursing shortage.

Title. To care on equal terms – Registered nurses experiences of duty in an international military operation. Aim. To describe registered nurses experience of providing patient care on equal terms in a Swedish international military operation. Background. Reg. nurses provide care to a variety of patients during an international military operation. Those patients may be civilians as well as military. Among them may be friends, allies or enemies. According to Swedish and international law all patients has the right to recieve medical care. The number of reg. nurses who will participate in international military operations will increase, yet there are few studies about experiences of providing care on equal terms to patients in this setting. Method. A qualitative study based on interviews was used. Nine Swedish reg. nurses were interviewed. The data was analysed using a qualitative content analysis. Findings. Three themes emerged. Feelings in nursing, conditions in nursing and ambitions in nursing. Reg. nurses describe different feelings such as frustration and anger. The conditions reg. nurses have to work in are often dangerous and with limited resources. Reg. nurses have an ambition to provide care on equal terms but find it difficult to do so. Conclusion. Reg. nurses describe that it is difficult to provide care on equal terms. Patients are not always provided equal care. The ambition is to give patients care on equal terms, but in a situation when a choice has to be made, reg. nurses tend to care for friends first.

There is an apparent disagreement between recent commentators who find in Nietzsche both a constructive philosophy and a compatibilist account of freedom, and Brian Leiter’s reading that rejects both. The reason for this disagreement, I argue, is that Leiter’s “illiberal” view is limited in scope to Nietzsche’s critical philosophy, while Nietzsche also has a constructive philosophy aimed at select readers. I read Nietzsche’s critical philosophy as targeting the metaphysical entities that underpin asceticism and herd values, not the mental states and processes with which these entities are associated. The “no such entity” reading preserves the resources needed to read Nietzsche as offering a replacement for the ascetic ideal—and an alternative source for life’s meaning. Although few of his readers will have been born with the drives needed to throw off herd values and enjoy compatibilist freedom, these readers are the intended audience for Nietzsche’s constructive philosophy.

Bakgrund: Cancer är en folksjukdom och i Sverige insjuknar varje år 800 unga personer i cancer. För unga vuxna som befinner sig i en omvälvande tid i livet resulterar cancersjukdomen i förändrade roller och en förändrad självbild. När livet och hälsan hotas uppstår ett starkt behov av att berätta. Genom berättelsen tydliggörs upplevelser, för sig själv och för andra. Syfte: Syftet är att utifrån relevant litteratur beskriva unga personers känslor kring att leva med en cancersjukdom. Metod: Studien utfördes enligt kvalitativ innehållsanalys och baseras på fyra biografier. Resultat: I resultatet framkom att unga personer med en cancersjukdom upplever både negativa och positiva känslor. Negativa känslor upplevdes framförallt i samband med att få diagnosen, behandlingar och den livsförändring som sjukdomen för med sig. Positiva känslor beskrevs ofta i relationen till anhöriga och vid tankar på framtiden. Slutsats: De känslor som beskrevs i resultatet var centrerade kring sjukdomen, den förändrade tillvaron, relationer, döden och framtiden. Inom alla områden framkom känslor som kunde relateras till lidande och negativ påverkan. Känslor relaterade till hälsa och positiv påverkan var framträdande inom alla områden förutom i relation till själva sjukdomen. Klinisk betydelse: Resultatet av föreliggande studie kan bidra till ökad förståelse hos blivande vårdpersonal och vårdpersonal som arbetar med unga cancerpatienter. / Background: Cancer is a common public health problem, in Sweden there are 800 new young adult sufferers every year. For young adults experiencing an upheaval time in life a cancer disease results in changing roles and an altered self-image. When life and health is threatened there is a strong need to express feelings. Through the narration experiences are clarified, for themselves and for others. Aim: The aim of the study is to describe young people’s feelings of living with a cancer disease, according to relevant literature. Method: The study was formed by a qualitative content analysis based on four biographies. Results: The results revealed that young people with cancer experience both negative and positive feelings. Negative feelings were experienced primarily during time of diagnosis, treatments, and the life changes that comes with the disease. Positive feelings were often described in relation to families and the thoughts of the future. Conclusion: The feelings described in the results were centered on the disease, the altered life, relationships, death and the future. All areas showed feelings that could be related to suffering and negative impact. Feelings related to health and positive impact was prominent in all areas except in relation to the disease itself. Clinical significance: The results of the present study may contribute to a better understanding of future healthcare professionals and current healthcare professionals who work with young patients with cancer. / <p>Röda Korsets sjuksköterskeförening stipendium 2015</p>

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Sydney, [2002]. / "A thesis presented to the School of Psychology, University of Western Sydney, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy " Bibliography: leaves 285-311.

Background: According to World Health Organization is palliative care a human right. The focus of palliative care is relieving suffering and having quality of life as the main goal. The nurse's role is to enable symptom control, to be a support for the patient and close relatives, as well as contributing to a good and worthy death. Although death is a part of life, strong feelings arise about death and the dying. Aim: The aim of this study was to describe nurse experiences of palliative care. Method: The method used was a literature study based on international qualitative research. Eleven articles were analyzed and resulted in four main themes and nine sub-themes. Results: The findings were four main themes; the profession, relationships, work environment and feelings as well as nine sub themes; experiences and knowledges, the patient, relatives, stress, support from colleagues, lack of support from colleagues, grief and impotency, satisfaction and mental strain. Conclusion: The nurse’s experience of palliative care is individual and varies depending on, experience, interaction with colleagues and self-perception regarding individual values and existential questions.

The purpose of this study is to find out what effect and meaning the youths’ describe that  music has for their wellbeing. The idea is to examine how students studying music at the esthetic program describe that they perceive that practicing music and listening to different types of music affect their wellbeing, with focus on psychosomatic and psychic symptoms. The point is also to examine why the youths think that music can affect their feelings and wellbeing and why they perceive that music is important to them. The study is qualitative and starts from a life world phenomenological perspective. Music is regarded as a phenomenon in this study. The study’s data was collected through a survey which was performed at three different gymnasiums in southern Sweden. The result presents that music listening and music practicing can reduce many of the youths’ psychosomatic and psychic symptoms – mainly by music affecting the youths’ feelings in different ways, making them feel good, creating fellowship and acting as an escape route from reality. Two types of music that can make the youths feel better is calm music and happy music. It also appears that music can increase psychic and psychosomatic symptoms in a way that different types of music can increase symptoms such as anxiety, worry, sleep difficulties and stress. Music described as sad is a type of music that is mentioned making these symptoms worse. The music is important for the youths in different ways. Examples given are that it’s a part of them as individuals, that it works as a support and that it can affect their wellbeing and feelings. The result also presents why the youths think that music can­­­ affect their wellbeing and feelings. The primary point that emerges is that they describe that there is a connection between humans, memories and feelings; that music can affect and amplify peoples’ feelings and memories. In the discussion it appears that music could be used in order to decrease the youths’ psychosomatic and psychic symptoms.