Background: For most children, being hospitalized is a whole new experience. The care should be safe and meet the children’s needs. In hospital care, children are a large group of patients. It’s important for them to be involved in decisions regarding their care and to get proper information. Working as a nurse, there’s a high possibility to meet with children being ill. In order to get more knowledge about how children experience their hospital stay this study was conducted.Aim: The aim of the study was to describe children’s experiences of being a patient in hospital.Method: The method used was a literature study, based on qualitative research. Eight articles from the databases Cinahl and PsycInfo read, reviewed and analyzed according to the model for analysis of qualitative studies made by Friberg.Results: Four themes and eleven sub themes were found. Children’s experiences of hospital care revolved around the hospital environment, their emotions, not being in control and the nursing staff.Conclusion: The result shows that children’s different experiences related to their hospital stay often is affected by the ability to have their parents close, to have the opportunity to play and to get the proper information from caring health professionals. Children describe both positive and negative experiences.

Motivation of nurses’ learning is a subject that has never been studied in Lithuania. Nursing change is a complicated phenomenon and its impact on human health and on health of all the public can be expected only when it goes on consistently through nurses’ training, their regular improvement, activity and their personality. Therefore it is important to know what motivation induces choosing nurse’s occupation, what the most important personal features they are characterized by in order problematic fields of motivation could be disclosed. The motivation of studying nurse’s occupation at Utena College, Faculty of Health and Social Care was researched. Research methods: • analysis of scientific literature and documents; • questionnaire survey; • statistic analysis of empirical data. The most frequent motivation to study nurse��s occupation is wish to acquire new knowledge and skills, to improve, to expand horizon, to help people, to meet modern requirements raised for nursing, to prepare well for future work, to disclose their real possibilities, to know man deeper, to teach healthy mode of life, interest in this speciality. Rarer is the following motivation: wish for higher salary, wish to hold present position, wish to be acknowledged, to seek higher position. In the rarest cases nurse’s occupation was chosen due to encouragement of family and friends. Personal improvement and altruism can be considered to be the most important motivation. The students having no practical... [to full text]

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Purpose: To examine stakeholder participation in the primary care system change process that led to the introduction of the first Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic in Ontario. Design: Qualitative case study guided by the principles of stakeholder and system change theory. Setting: Northern Community in Ontario, Canada. Participants: Purposeful sample of healthcare providers, healthcare managers and health policy stakeholders. Procedures: This case study was bound by place (Sudbury), time (January 2006–January 2008), activity (stakeholder participation), and process (introduction of an innovation, the first Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic in Ontario, during a primary care system change). Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with participants who represented the clinic, the local community, and the province. Public documents, such as newspaper articles published during the 2 year time boundary for this case and professional healthcare organization publications, were also examined. Interviews were analyzed using qualitative content analysis and public documents were reviewed for key messages to complement the interview findings. Field notes written during data collection and analysis were used to provide additional depth, contribute insights to the data, and ascribe meaning to the results. Main Findings: Sixteen interviews were conducted with key stakeholders. Twenty public documents which yielded the most specific information relevant to the case study time boundaries and activities were selected and reviewed. Six main themes are reported: felt need, two visions for change (one for a Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic and one for Family Health Teams [FHTs]), vision processes related to ensuring the visions became or continued to be a reality in Ontario’s healthcare system (shaping, sharing, and protecting the vision), stakeholder activities, and sustaining and spreading the vision. Conclusions: In this case, stakeholder participation influenced policy decisions and was a key contributor to the primary care system change process to introduce the first Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic in Ontario. Stakeholders are motivated by various needs to engage in activities to introduce an innovation in primary care. One of the most common needs felt by both those who supported the introduction of the first Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic and those who were opposed to it was the need for improved patient access to primary care.

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Thesis (MNurs)--University of South Australia, 1999

Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2000

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wyoming, 2007. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on June 18, 2008). Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-68).