Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1993.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1993.

Thesis (M.N.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Bibliography: leaves 145-150.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Aberdeen University, 2008. / Title from web page (viewed on Apr. 21, 2009). Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.N.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2003. / Typescript. Bibliography: leaves 64-71. Also available online.

Thesis (M.N.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2004. / Bibliography: leaves 122-125.

Bakgrund: Medellivslängden i Sverige ökar och äldre personer använder allt fler läkemedel. Med stigande ålder sker kroppsliga förändringar vilket ökar risken för läkemedelsbiverkningar/-interaktioner. Dessa läkemedelsrelaterade problem kan minska livskvaliteten för äldre personer men sjuksköterskor/distriktssköterskor kan med rätt kunskaper och genom att arbeta tvärprofessionellt bidra till att minska problemen. Syfte: Syftet var att studera hur sjuksköterskor och distriktssköterskor inom hemsjukvård uppfattar kunskaper om läkemedel samt det tvärprofessionella arbetet kring läkemedel. Metod: Studien hade en kvantitativ design och genomfördes som en enkätstudie riktad till sjuksköterskor/distriktssköterskor inom hemsjukvård. Data bearbetades med statistikprogrammet SPSS 22. För korrelationer användes Mann-Whitneys U-test, Wilcoxon´s rangsummetest och Spearman´s rangkorrelation. Resultat: Deltagarna ansåg att läkemedelskunskaper var viktiga men att det var svårt att identifiera läkemedelsrelaterade problem. Distriktssköterskorna kände sig säkrare på läkemedelsrelaterade frågor efter sin utbildning. Deltagarna ansåg att det fanns otillräckligt med tid avsatt med läkare och omvårdnadspersonal för att diskutera läkemedelsrelaterade frågor. De kände sig trygga med att omvårdnadspersonal tog kontakt vid läkemedelsrelaterade problem men upplevde att det var svårt att få tag på läkare tillräckligt snabbt. Konklusion: För att minska läkemedelsrelaterade problem inom hemsjukvården finns behov av ökade läkemedelskunskaper hos sjuksköterskor/distriktssköterskor samt ökat samarbete med läkare och omvårdnadspersonal. / Background: Average life span in Sweden is increasing and elderly use more and more medication. With age, alterations in body constitution take place, leading to an increased risk of adverse drug reactions. These drug related problems can decrease quality of life for elderly people but with right knowledge and by working multidisciplinary nurses/district nurses can decrease them. Aim: The aim was to study how nurses and district nurses within home nursing view drug knowledge and multidisciplinary work on drugs. Metod: A quantitative design was used and the study was conducted as a questionnaire survey, adressed to nurses/district nurses within home nursing. Data was analysed using the statistics software of SPSS 22. Mann-Whitneys U-test, Wilcoxon´s sign-rank test and Spearman´s rho were used to find statistical correlations. Results: The participants considered drug knowledge to be important but found it hard to identify drug related problems. The district nurses felt more secure in drug related issues after graduation. The participants considered that the amount of time scheduled with physicians and nursing assistants to discuss drug-related matters were insufficient. They felt confident in that nursing assistants would contact them in event of adverse drug reactions but stated it was hard to reach physicians quickly enough. Conclusion: To decrease drug related problems within home nursing there is need for increased drug knowledge amongst nurses/district nurses as well as an increased cooperation with physicians and nursing assistants.

Bakgrund: Idag insjuknar många personer i infektionssjukdomar vilket ställer stora krav på sjukvården. Forskning visar att en god handhygien förebygger och minskar risken för att drabbas av en infektionssjukdom. Egenvård och patientdelaktighet är en viktig faktor för att patienter ska kunna bibehålla en god handhygien och på så sätt förhindra att insjukna i infektionssjukdomar. Syfte: Att beskriva faktorer som avgör om sjuksköterskan gör patienten delaktig vid hygienrutiner i hemsjukvården. Metod: En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av 8 stycken semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Resultat: Det identifierades 3 kategorier och 8 underkategorier i resultatet. Huvudfynden i resultatet beskriver att sjuksköterskan sällan informerar om handhygien och att detta påverkar patientdelaktigheten. Patientens integritet, kognitiva funktion och hemmiljö beskrevs som hämmande faktorer vid information om handhygien. Samtidigt var situationer som medförde ökad risk för infektioner och smittspridning tillfällen då patienten erhöll mer information om handhygien vilket gav en ökad patientdelaktighet. Vidare påvisade resultatet att relationen mellan sjuksköterskan, patienten och andra yrkeskategorier inom vården påverkade patientdelaktigheten vid hygienrelaterad omvårdnad. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskan i hemsjukvården informerar sällan patienten om handhygien. Ytterligare forskning skulle kunna påvisa patientens behov och de positiva effekterna av delaktighet vid hygienförfarande. / Background: Infection related diseases have a great effect on today’s healthcare. Research shows that a proper hand hygiene can prevent infection related diseases. Patient participation and self-care plays a great part of whether a patient is able to maintain a proper hand hygiene. Purpose: To describe factors that determine if the nurse involves the patient when performing hygiene related care in home nursing. Method: A qualitative analyze of content gathered from 8 semi-structured interviews. Results: Three categories and eight subcategories were found in the content. The categories described that the nurse doesn’t inform patients about hand hygiene, conditions that enables information as well as how the patient-caregiver relationship affected the patient participation and the information that was given. When the nurse cared for wounds or when there were an elevated risk for infection the patient got more information and got a bigger part in his care. Patient’s integrity and cognitive ability affected the patient participation. The respondents described the relationship as the foundation for good care. Conclusion: Nurses seldom inform patients about hand hygiene and further research could prove the value of patient participation in hygiene related care.

OBJETIVO: Cartografar experiências do cuidado às pessoas em restrição domiciliar pela Atenção Básica em saúde, por meio dos caminhares da pesquisadora-apoiadora-fisioterapeuta, com enfoque nas modelagens tecnoassistenciais em saúde. MÉTODOS: A partir de uma cartografia, com relatos, vivências, recortes e afecções durante o trabalho como apoiadora-fisioterapeuta de três usuários-guias, foram construídas narrativas-densas, apresentadas em capítulos com discussões frente às experiências do vivido e as afecções destas no(s) corpo(s) dos usuários, trabalhadores e da pesquisadora. RESULTADOS: O processo de cartografar permitiu uma aproximação da pesquisadora com os diferentes sentidos e significados de corpos, trabalho em saúde, biopolítica e produção do conhecimento, onde os usuários e cuidadores demonstram produzir conhecimentos outros para além do saber disciplinar vigente, tornando visíveis potências e resistências para novos existires para os usuários e para os trabalhadores envolvidos no cuidado. DISCUSSÃO E CONCLUSÃO: O processo cartográfico, a partir das narrativas densas, e a abertura para o encontro, produziu outros olhares para o cuidado em saúde para as pessoas em restrição domiciliar, que constroem, a todo tempo, movimentos-potência para a produção de mais vida. A autoanálise, provocando a desterritorialização e o exercício da alteridade, possibilitou uma transformação de fisioterapeuta para apoiadora, de apoiadora para sanitarista, de sanitarista para pesquisadora, de pesquisadora para a fisioterapeuta inventiva, de modo não linear e sim rizomático. O ato de cuidar para além da especialidade permitiu em mim uma reinvenção do trabalho da fisioterapia, onde a mesma está sendo aqui ressignificada para uma fisioterapia-inventiva. / OBJECTIVE: To cartography cares´s experiences of people´s home restricted by the Primary Health Care, through the researcher-supporter-physiotherapist's pathways, with a focus on modeling technical healthcare. METHODS: A cartography was carried out, with reports, experiences, cuts and affections, during the work as “apoiadora”-physiotherapist, from three user-guides, and were constructed dense-narratives, presented in chapters with discussions about the “experiences of the lived” and the affections of these in the body(ies) of users, workers and the researcher. RESULTS: The process of cartography allowed the researcher to approach the different senses and meanings of bodies, health work, biopolitics and knowledge production, where users and caregivers demonstrate to produce other knowledges than the current, making visible´s potencies and resistances for a new existence for the users and for the workers involved in the care. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The cartographic process based on the dense-narratives, and the opening to the meeting, produced other looks for health care for people´s home restricted, who at all times produce power movements for the production of more life. The self-analysis resulted in deterritorialization and the exercise of otherness, in addition to enabling a transformation from physical therapist to “apoiadora”, from “apoiadora” to sanitarist, from sanitarist to researcher, from researcher to the inventive-physiotherapist, in a non-linear way but in a rhizomatic way. The act of caring beyond the specialty allowed me to reinvent the work of physiotherapy, re-signifying it for an inventive-physiotherapy.

OBJETIVO: Cartografar experiências do cuidado às pessoas em restrição domiciliar pela Atenção Básica em saúde, por meio dos caminhares da pesquisadora-apoiadora-fisioterapeuta, com enfoque nas modelagens tecnoassistenciais em saúde. MÉTODOS: A partir de uma cartografia, com relatos, vivências, recortes e afecções durante o trabalho como apoiadora-fisioterapeuta de três usuários-guias, foram construídas narrativas-densas, apresentadas em capítulos com discussões frente às experiências do vivido e as afecções destas no(s) corpo(s) dos usuários, trabalhadores e da pesquisadora. RESULTADOS: O processo de cartografar permitiu uma aproximação da pesquisadora com os diferentes sentidos e significados de corpos, trabalho em saúde, biopolítica e produção do conhecimento, onde os usuários e cuidadores demonstram produzir conhecimentos outros para além do saber disciplinar vigente, tornando visíveis potências e resistências para novos existires para os usuários e para os trabalhadores envolvidos no cuidado. DISCUSSÃO E CONCLUSÃO: O processo cartográfico, a partir das narrativas densas, e a abertura para o encontro, produziu outros olhares para o cuidado em saúde para as pessoas em restrição domiciliar, que constroem, a todo tempo, movimentos-potência para a produção de mais vida. A autoanálise, provocando a desterritorialização e o exercício da alteridade, possibilitou uma transformação de fisioterapeuta para apoiadora, de apoiadora para sanitarista, de sanitarista para pesquisadora, de pesquisadora para a fisioterapeuta inventiva, de modo não linear e sim rizomático. O ato de cuidar para além da especialidade permitiu em mim uma reinvenção do trabalho da fisioterapia, onde a mesma está sendo aqui ressignificada para uma fisioterapia-inventiva. / OBJECTIVE: To cartography cares´s experiences of people´s home restricted by the Primary Health Care, through the researcher-supporter-physiotherapist's pathways, with a focus on modeling technical healthcare. METHODS: A cartography was carried out, with reports, experiences, cuts and affections, during the work as “apoiadora”-physiotherapist, from three user-guides, and were constructed dense-narratives, presented in chapters with discussions about the “experiences of the lived” and the affections of these in the body(ies) of users, workers and the researcher. RESULTS: The process of cartography allowed the researcher to approach the different senses and meanings of bodies, health work, biopolitics and knowledge production, where users and caregivers demonstrate to produce other knowledges than the current, making visible´s potencies and resistances for a new existence for the users and for the workers involved in the care. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The cartographic process based on the dense-narratives, and the opening to the meeting, produced other looks for health care for people´s home restricted, who at all times produce power movements for the production of more life. The self-analysis resulted in deterritorialization and the exercise of otherness, in addition to enabling a transformation from physical therapist to “apoiadora”, from “apoiadora” to sanitarist, from sanitarist to researcher, from researcher to the inventive-physiotherapist, in a non-linear way but in a rhizomatic way. The act of caring beyond the specialty allowed me to reinvent the work of physiotherapy, re-signifying it for an inventive-physiotherapy.