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Background: Person-centered care is one of the nurse's core competencies where the nurse's role is to enable the patient's care based on participation and self-determination. According to research, person-centered care has positive effects such as higher quality of life, reduced cost and satisfaction in both patients and care staff. Despite this, the implementation of personcentered care is slow, which is most often referred to various obstructive factors such as lack of time and shortcomings in the work environment. Aim: The aim of the study was to investigate how nurses describe their experiences of person-centered care in psychiatric outpatient care. Method: The study was done with a qualitative design and the data collection took place through semi-structured interviews of eleven nurses at a psychiatric outpatient clinic. These interviews analyzed by inductive content analysis. Results: The overall category Person-centered care - opportunities and challenges shows that nurses' experiences of person-centered care are complex. The results of this study are presented through four subcategories. 1. With patient in focus. 2. Collaboration as a prerequisite for Participation. 3.To adapt and strive for good communication. 4. Organizational work and knowledge. Conclusion: Joint responsibility is required to provide person-centered care. Nurses cannot provide person-centered care on their own, but greater organizational change work is needed. On the other hand, specialist nurses in psychiatric care, with their in-depth care scientific knowledge, must be able to lead the nursing work based on the person-centered approach. Suggestions for further research: This study is important as it sheds light on knowledgegaps based on the nurses' previous experiences, while at the same time it sheds light on the specialist nurse's opportunities to develop person-centered care. Finally, more knowledge is requested in person-centered care, including communication, collaboration, participation and documentation with a focus on care plans.

<p>With the general engineering practices being followed for the development of scientific software, scientists are seemingly able to simulate real world problems successfully and generate accurate numerical results. However, scientific software is rarely presented in such a way that an external reviewer would feel comfortable in certifying that the software is fit for its intended use. The documentation of the software development - Requirements, Design and Implementation, is not being given the importance it deserves. Often, the requirements are improperly and insufficiently recorded, which make the design decisions difficult. Similarly, incomplete documentation of design decisions and numerical algorithms make the implementation difficult. Lack of traceability between the requirements, design and the code leads to problems with building confidence in the results.</p> <p>To study the problems faced during certification, a case study was performed on a legacy software used by a nuclear power generating company in the 1980's for safety analysis in a nuclear reactor. Unlike many other scientific codes of that time, the nuclear power generating company included a full theory manual with their code. Although the theory manual was very helpful, the documentation and development approach still needed significant updating. During the case study, 27 issues were found with the documentation of the theory manual, 2 opportunities to update the design and 6 programming style issues were found in the original FORTRAN code. This shows room for improvement in the documentation techniques in the development of scientific software based on a physical model.</p> <p>This thesis provides a solution to the certification problem, by introducing software engineering methodologies in the documentation of the scientific software. This work proposes a new template for the Software Requirements Specification (SRS) to clearly and sufficiently state the functional and the non-functional requirements, while satisfying the desired qualities for a good SRS. Furthermore, the proposed template acts as a checklist and helps in systematically and adequately developing the requirements document. For developing the design and implementation, this thesis introduces Literate Programming (LP) as an alternative to traditional structured programming. Literate Programming documents the numerical algorithms, logic behind the development and the code together in the same document, the Literate Programmer's Manual (LPM). The LPM is developed in connection with the SRS. The explicit traceability between the theory, numerical algorithms and implementation (code), simplifies the process of verification and the associated certification.</p> / Master of Applied Science (MASc)

Background The aging population, particularly in Sweden, has heightened the need for innovative solutions in long-term elder care. This demographic shift results in a wealth of health data, from vital signs to social interactions. Accurate documentation of this data is crucial for providing effective care. However, there is a lack of systematic understanding of the types of health data collected in Swedish elder care. This study aims to bridge the gap between idealized and actual documentation practices. Methods The method combines literature reviews with qualitative techniques such as interviews, aiming to thoroughly understand the documentation of health data in Swedish long-term care facilities for older adults. By coding and categorizing the content into manageable data, researchers can identify patterns, trends, and relationships within the media being studied. Results Current documentation practices in Swedish long-term elder care were examined, revealing a variety of health data types collected, including personal information, assessments, care plans, and incident reports. Legal guidance from the Social Authority is deemed insufficient by managers, particularly concerning the Act on Coherent Documentation (SVOD).Documentation practices vary among municipalities due to operational differences and municipal autonomy. These findings highlight complexities and gaps, necessitating further research and improvement efforts. Conclusion Within the context of long-term elder care in Sweden, effective documentation practices play a crucial role. However, there is vagueness surrounding the specific health data that should be and is documented. This is what has been revealed in my study, drawing from interviews with multiple informants. While digital documentation offers promise, addressing complexity requires coordinated efforts. Streamlining regulations, enhancing interoperability, and improving usability are essential steps toward improving elder care documentation practices. / Bakgrund Den åldrande befolkningen i världen, och särskilt i Sverige, har ökat behovet av innovativa lösningar inom äldreomsorgen då denna demografiska förändring har resulterat i en ackumuleringen av stora mängder hälsodata. För att kunna tillhandahålla effektiv vård så är det viktigt att den samlade hälsodatan dokumenteras korrekt. Det finns dock en brist i den systematiska förståelsen för vilka typer av hälsodata som samlas in inom svensk äldreomsorg. Syftet med denna studie är därför att undersöka klyftan mellan hur hälsodata bör dokumenteras enligt lagar och regler, och hur det faktiskt dokumenteras i praktiken. Metoder Studien kombinerar dokumentanalyser med intervjuer, och har som mål att djupgående förstå dokumentationen av hälsoinformation i svenska vård-och omsorgsboenden. Genom att koda och kategorisera resultatet från dokumentanalyserna och intervjudata kunde mönster, trender och relationer inom det studerade materialet identifieras. Resultat Nuvarande dokumentationspraxis inom svensk äldreomsorg undersöktes. Resultatet visade att en mängd olika typer av hälsoinformation samlas in, däribland personlig information, bedömningar, vårdplaner och incidentrapporter. Juridisk vägledning från Socialstyrelsen bedöms vara otillräcklig av chefer, särskilt när det gäller lagen om sammanhållen dokumentation (SVOD). Dokumentationspraxis varierar mellan kommuner på grund av operativa skillnader samt det kommunala självstyret. Dessa resultat belyser problemet med hur hälsoinformation dokumenteras och de brister som kräver ytterligare forskning och förbättringsåtgärder. Slutsats Inom ramen för äldreomsorgen i Sverige spelar effektiva dokumentationsmetoder en avgörande roll. Det råder dock oklarhet kring vad för hälsoinformation som bör och faktiskt dokumenteras. Detta är vad som avslöjats i denna studie, baserat på intervjuer med flera informanter. Även om digital dokumentation är fördelaktigt så kräver hanteringen av de påvisade problemensamordnade insatser. Förtydligandet av regelverk, förbättrad interoperabilitet och ökadanvändbarheten är viktiga steg mot att förbättra dokumentationspraxis inom äldreomsorgen.

A web site was designed and constructed for the Research + Demonstration Facility (RDF) as a master’s thesis project to help educators teach future architects more interactively by using the dynamic medium of the Internet. Students and faculty will learn about evolving architectural research and technology as well as potential consequences of design decisions. Educators will be able to conduct online research, or tele-experiments, in the classroom thus allowing students to learn, in near real-time, the outcome or progress of research on and off campus. This project presents some of the possibilities of how the Internet can enhance research information delivery to students and faculty of architecture. / Master of Science / Includes ZIP file of associated datasets and documentation.

Software quality is a highly visible topic in the software engineering community. In response to assessing the quality of the documentation of software, this thesis presents a taxonomy of documentation characteristics which can be used to evaluate the quality of computer documentation. Previous work in the area has been limited to individual characteristics of documentation and English prose in general and not organized in such fashion as to be usable in an evaluation procedure. This thesis takes these characteristics, adds others, and systematically establishes a hierarchical structure of characteristics that allow one to assess the quality of documentation. The tree structure has three distinct levels (viz. Qualities, Factors, and QuarzzuÌ ierr), with a root node (or highest characteristic) of Documentation Adequacy. The Qualities are abstract, non-measurable characteristics. The Factors are characteristics that support the assessment of the Qualities; Qualizier are decomposed into Factors. The Quantyiers, which are measurable document characteristics, support the assessment of the Factors. In the thesis, the levels are described and then the characteristics are each defined in terms of evaluation of documentation quality. Finally, an example application is presented as the evaluation taxonomy is tailored to a specific set of documents, those generated by the Automated Design Description System (ADDS). / Master of Science