The study was conducted among 100 assistant nurses working in six different residential home. The main purpose of the study was to increase awareness of the psychosocial work environment of assistant nurses in retirement home. In order to fulfill my purpose, I have chosen to use three questions: Have the period of employment in the workplace any impact on how the assistant nurses experience the psychosocial work environment? In the future it will become a lack of staff in elderly care. How do those working in elderly care today feel about the future? How important are the manager and colleagues for how assistant nurses are experiencing the psychosocial work environment? In order to answer the questions a quantitative method and a questionnaire has been used. The results were analyzed using SPSS and presented in the form of frequency tables, cross tabulations, chi square test and the sperman rho test. The results showed that the period of employment did not had an impact on the staffs´ experience of the psychosocial work environment. But what proved to be important was whether they felt their work as stressful. Where those who have worked between 3-10 years felt that the duties were more stressful than those with a shorter or longer period of employment.

Denna kvantitativa studie har som syfte att kartlägga kompetensen/utbildningsbakgrund och belysa möjligheterna till kompetensutveckling inom kommunal äldreomsorg. Studien bygger på svar från 108 elektroniska enkäter från undersköterskor och vårdbiträden inom kommunal äldreomsorg. Studiens resultat visar att det finns så mycket som 23,2% yrkesverksamma inom kommunal äldreomsorg som anser sig inte vara kvalificerade för sitt arbete. Studien visar också att kommunerna runt om i landet generellt erbjuder sina undersköterskor och vårdbiträden en bra mängd kompetensutveckling, dock visar det sig att man i mindre kommuner har sämre tillgång på kompetensutveckling än i mellanstora kommuner. / This quantitative study has the purpose of mapping educational background and illustrate the possibilty of competence development in municipal elderly care. The study is based on answers from 108 electronic questionnaires from assistance nurses and nurse´s aides in municipal elderly care in Sweden. The result of the study shows that as much as 23,2% that are working in municipal elderly care is unqualified for their jobs. The study also shows that the municipalities around Sweden give their employees a good amount of competence development, but in the smaller municipalities there is less access to competence development than in the middle sized municipalities.

<p>The aim of the study has been to gain an increased understanding of the sense of participation and influence that the enrolled nurses, working with home-help services within the purchaser – provider model, feel and how this participation and influence affect them. Five enrolled nurses in three of Stockholm's districts related their experiences of participation and influence at work in the qualitative interviews that were conducted. The result was then analyzed with the help of two theories, Karasek's and Theorell´s Demand- Control Model and Antonovsky's theory regarding ”a Sense of Coherence (SOC)”. The analyzes show that the enrolled nurses have a low sense of participation and influence regarding decisions relating to their work situation. Decisions that affect the enrolled nurses are made by politicians, directors, and care managers of the city districts (biståndshandläggare). On the other hand, the enrolled nurses felt strong support from their peers at work. They could socialize and discuss issues with them. The analyzes show that without their peer support, they would have a lower sense of participation and influence. Furthermore the analyzes show that the interview subjects possess knowledge and competence that they are unable to make use of in their work.</p>

The aim of the study has been to gain an increased understanding of the sense of participation and influence that the enrolled nurses, working with home-help services within the purchaser – provider model, feel and how this participation and influence affect them. Five enrolled nurses in three of Stockholm's districts related their experiences of participation and influence at work in the qualitative interviews that were conducted. The result was then analyzed with the help of two theories, Karasek's and Theorell´s Demand- Control Model and Antonovsky's theory regarding ”a Sense of Coherence (SOC)”. The analyzes show that the enrolled nurses have a low sense of participation and influence regarding decisions relating to their work situation. Decisions that affect the enrolled nurses are made by politicians, directors, and care managers of the city districts (biståndshandläggare). On the other hand, the enrolled nurses felt strong support from their peers at work. They could socialize and discuss issues with them. The analyzes show that without their peer support, they would have a lower sense of participation and influence. Furthermore the analyzes show that the interview subjects possess knowledge and competence that they are unable to make use of in their work.

Den här avhandlingen handlar om vårdlärares arbete med simulering av arbetsuppgifter i metodrum Ett metodrum kan ses som en hybrid mellan klassrum och sjukhussal. I denna skolmiljö övas arbetsuppgifter som förekommer inom vård och omsorg. Det saknas patienter att öva på och ibland sjukvårdsmaterial, vilket innebär en utmaning för vårdläraren att skapa en autentisk miljö. Syftet med studien är att undersöka hur vårdlärare arbetar med simulering av arbetsuppgifter i metodrumsundervisning för vuxna elever. Avhandlingen grundar sig på ett sociokulturellt perspektiv och har analyserats med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Tre metodrumslektioner från tre olika skolor ljudinspelades digitalt : venprovtagning, urinkatetrisering och såromläggning. Resultatet visar att vårdlärarna arbetar med tre olika simuleringsaktiviteter: Tekniskt utförande, Tolkande och Bemötande. Simuleringsaktiviteternas utförande varierar med lektionsinnehållet. Studien visar vilka redskap i metodrumsundervisningen som är vanligt förekommande och hur de används. Ingela Leibring har bakgrund som barnmorska och arbetar för närvarande som vårdlärare inom kommunal vuxenutbildning i Karlstad samt är utbildningsledare för Yrkeshögskolans utbildning till barnspecialiserad undersköterska. / This study centres on clinical skills laboratory teaching in municipal adult education. This type of teaching takes place in a school setting and is hybrid of a nursing and healthcare environment. Future professional tasks are simulated and practised here. Three different schools were visited and three clinical skills laboratory lessons were recorded with a digital audio recorder. The following tasks were included in the study: venipuncture, urinary catheterisation, and wound dressing. The analysis was performed as a qualitative content analysis informed by a sociocultural perspective. The aim of the study is to extend the knowledge of how teachers approach the simulation of tasks in clinical skills laboratory training. The study identifies three simulation activities and their application: technical performance, interpretation, and treatment.  The main teaching tools used in the lessons were the teacher’s body/hands, different physical tools specific to the respective laboratory session and the teacher’s language. All the simulation tasks – venipuncture, urinary catheterisation and wound dressing ­– were included in the sessions. A similarity was that technical performance on the whole was the most common feature in all the laboratory lessons. A difference emerged when the clinical skills laboratory lesson was divided into the components: introduction, students practise themselves, and conclusion. The lesson introduction included treatment to nearly the same extent as technical performance. Differences related to lesson content were evident in the activities interpretation and treatment. A common pattern was that the teachers shifted between everyday language and professional language when they worked with simulation. They named their patients and gave the students immediate response.

Bakgrund: Omvårdnad är ett ord som kan ha flera olika betydelser, det kan vara ett verb som något man utövar eller en synonym med kunskap som något som erhålls. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva vad sjuksköterskor och undersköterskor ansåg inbegripas av begreppet omvårdnad och “god omvårdnad” samt vad för arbetsuppgifter de olika yrkeskategorierna utförde inom ramen för omvårdnad. Metod:Individuella intervjuer av tre sjuksköterskor och fyra undersköterskor. Innehållet analyserades med hjälp av kvalitativ innehållsanalys. Fem teman och 21 kategorier framkom. Resultat: Respondenterna uttryckte att den basala omvårdnaden hade en central roll inom begreppet omvårdnad. Vid diskussion om vad god omvårdnad innebar framhävde de flesta att ett gott bemötande var avgörande, att utföra arbetsuppgifter med omtanke och respekt. Att bedriva personcentrerad vård ansågs även ge god omvårdnad. Förutom basal omvårdnad och bemötande framkom det att medicinsk teknik var en stor del av arbetet inom omvårdnaden och att samarbete var en viktig del. Det rådde få meningsskiljaktigheter angående sjuksköterskans respektive undersköterskans arbetsuppgifter. Slutsats: Sjuksköterskorna och undersköterskorna som intervjuats har till stor del en samlad bild utav vad begreppet omvårdnad innebär. Det fokuserades mest på basal omvårdnad och gott bemötande vilket båda är två viktiga och centrala delar inom omvårdnaden. Att det inte fanns många meningsskiljaktigheter mellan undersköterskorna och sjuksköterskan kan ses som ett resultat av en tydlig arbetsfördelning. / Background: Nursing is a word that can have several meanings, it can be a verb or be synonymous with knowledge. Aim: The aim with this study was to describe what registered nurses (RN) and certified nursing assistant (CNA) perceived by the expressions nursing  and “qualitative nursing ” and what tasks at work these two different professions performed within the limits of nursing. Method: Qualitative interview study with individual interviews with three RN's and four CNA's. The content was analyzed through qualitative content analysis. Five themes and 21 categories arose. Results: The respondents expressed that the basal nursing care had a central role within the concept; nursing. At discussions about what good nursing meant, it was brought forth that a good interaction was decisive, to perform work related tasks with consideration and respect. To exercise person centered care was also considered to be good nursing. Besides basal nursing care and interactions it became apparent that medical technique is a big part of the job within nursing and that cooperation is an important part as well. There were few differences in opinions concerning RN respectively CNA job tasks. Conclusion: RN's and CNA's that were interviewed have the same general idea about what the concept nursing implies. It mainly focused on basal nursing care and good interactions, which were both considered as important parts within nursing. It can be seen that the lack of differences in opinion between CNA's and RN's is brought forth by a clear division of work between the two.

Föreliggande studies syfte var att undersöka huruvida diverse individuella faktorer har inverkan på den arbetsrelaterade stressen hos undersköterskor, som arbetar på äldreboenden inom offentlig verksamhet. Karaseks och Theorells (1990) krav-kontroll-stöd-modell användes för att undersöka den arbetsrelaterade stressen i förhållande till undersköterskornas ålder, längden på anställningen i tid och tjänstgöringsgrad i procent. Denna kvantitativa studie med deduktiv ansats genomfördes via en tvärsnittsdesign: sammantaget 154 undersköterskors svar, i en webbaserad enkät, utgjorde grunden för den data som analyserades i oberoende One-way ANOVA. Resultaten påvisade signifikanta skillnader i form av att undersköterskor som är under 35 år upplevde en lägre kontroll än de som är 51 år eller äldre; undersköterskor som tjänstgör på 100 procent upplevde högre ställda krav än de som tjänstgör på en sysselsättningsgrad mellan 76 och 99 procent. Undersökningens resultat överensstämmer till följd därav i hög grad med tidigare forskning inom ämnesområdet.

Bakgrund: Teamarbete anses nödvändigt i hälso- och sjukvården. Barnmorskan och undersköterskan ska kunna samarbeta i team tillsammans med andra barnmorskor, undersköterskor samt med andra professioner. Syfte: Syftet med studien var att beskriva barnmorskors och undersköterskors upplevelser av teamarbete på ett BB. Metod: En kvalitativ metod används i genomförandet av studien. Tio telefonintervjuer, med fem barnmorskor och fem undersköterskor, utfördes. Datamaterialet analyserades med hjälp av Graneheim och Lundmans innehållsanalys. Resultat: Resultatet sammanställdes i sex kategorier: Att arbeta mot samma mål, Att kommunicera, Att stödja varandra i arbetet, Att ha förståelse för varandra inom teamen, Att känna trygghet i teamet samt Att hantera stress. Två av kategorierna genererade i underkategorier. Slutsats: Det är grundläggande att ha ett effektivt teamarbete för att skapa en god vård. För att skapa ett effektivt teamarbete krävs det att teammedlemmarna stödjer varandra och arbetar mot samma mål. Det är även viktigt att ha en god kommunikation med varandra och ha förståelse för varandras professioner. / Background: Teamwork is considered necessary in health care. The midwife and the assistant nurse must be able to work in teams together with other midwives, assistant nurses and other professions.  Purpose: To describe midwives and assistant nurses experience of teamwork in postnatal care. Method: A qualitative method was used. The data collection was conducted using semi structured interviews. Interview material was analyzed using a qualitative content analysis by Graneheim och Lundman. Result: The results were compiled in six categories: To work towards the same goal, To communicate, To support each other in the work, To have an understanding of each other in the teams, To feel secure in the team and To manage stress. Two of the categories generated in subcategories. Conclusion: It is fundamental to have effective teamwork to create good care. To create effective teamwork, team members need to support each other and work towards the same goal. It is also important to have good communication with each other and have an understanding of each other's professions.

This thesis deals with attitudes regarding robots, specifically those seen within health and social care. The purpose of this paper is to look into and analyze as to why the implementation of robotics as a complement to health and social care moves at a slow pace in Sweden, compared to Japan - which we believe is due to skepticism and a presumed social aversion in Sweden. In the beginning of writing this paper, we suspected that the media had played a part in affecting the opinions of the public, which we later could confirm in interviews done by us, and by doing a Google search analysis. However, we were disproved that Japan is as far ahead of Sweden as we first thought. We came to realize that Sweden has a goal of becoming the world’s leading country in welfare technology and digitalization by 2025, which the media has failed to report about, and so it is something that has gone unnoticed.  By asking three research questions we’re looking to compare Sweden to Japan in terms of attitudes towards and the development of robotics, specifically robots directed towards health and social care. The questions are as follows: (1) How does the opinions between caregivers differ from developers and other people working with welfare technology? (2) What is the skepticism, as well as the acceptance based on, regarding robots? (3) How does the search results differ in the search engine Google when googling the term “robot” in Swedish and Japanese?  Our research showed that there is a lack of information and communication by politicians and developers of robotics pointed towards the public and specifically caregivers, who are left out of the conversation to do research on their own - which leads them to find Swedish websites and articles about robotics that, in comparison to Japanese websites and articles, puts the robots in a negative light.  Finally, we suggest some sort of normalization process regarding robots, for example by downplaying the scare tactics by the media, and letting the public see the robots for what they really are - something to serve as a complement in health and social care, and not as a threat that could replace you. We believe that fairs and educational talks open to the public would be helpful, so that they can “meet and greet” the robot. This might help the public warm up to the idea of welfare robotics, which in turn may bring forward societal changes.

Sammanfattning Titel: Samma fast olika – En explorativ studie om hur undersköterskorna inom hemtjänstenhanterar äldreomsorgens värdegrund och de organisatoriska förutsättningarna Författare: Patrik Bengtsson och Viktor Bergerus Uppsatsen syftade till att med en explorativ ansats, undersöka hur undersköterskor ihemtjänsten hanterar målen om självbestämmande, delaktighet och individanpassning samtvilka faktorer som möjliggör respektive begränsar implementeringen av målen. För att studienssyfte skulle uppnås, användes en kvalitativ metod. Fem intervjuer har genomförts medundersköterskor som arbetar inom hemtjänsten i fyra olika kommuner. Resultatet frånintervjuerna tolkades utifrån grundad teori som valdes då syftet var explorativt. Under analysengenererades koder, underkategorier, kategorier som resulterade i en main concern. Det fannsolika faktorer som influerade när det kom till vad som främjade respektive hämmade införandetav värdegrunden i det dagliga arbetet. Det begrepp eller main concern som framkom varnormdiskrepans, vilket i korthet innebär att arbetet som utförs ska vara flexibelt men genomförsinom en rigid inramning. Nyinstitutionell användes för att diskutera resultatet, slutsatsen var attundersköterskornas förmåga att anpassa sig är det som får hemtjänstens arbete att fungera trotsmotstridiga mål och krav.  What do you want to do ?New mailCopy<img /> / Abstract Title: Same but different - An exploratory study on how nursing aides within the homecare handlethe values of elderly care and the organizational conditions Authors: Patrik Bengtsson och Viktor Bergerus The thesis aimed to, with an exploratory approach, examine how nursing aides in the home careservice manage the goals of self-determination, participation, and individualization, as well aswhich factors enable and limit the implementation of these goals. To achieve the purpose of thestudy, a qualitative method was used. Five interviews have been conducted with nurses workingin home care in four different municipalities. The results of the interviews were interpretedbased on grounded theory which was chosen when the purpose was exploratory. During theanalysis, codes, subcategories and categories were generated that resulted in a main concern.There were various factors that influenced when it comes to what promotes and inhibits theintroduction of the values in daily work. The concept or main concern that emerged was thenorm discrepancy, which in short means that the work performed must be flexible but be carriedout within a rigid framework. Neo-institutional theory was used to discuss the results, theconclusion was that the nursing aides’ ability to adapt is what makes the home care service'swork despite conflicting goals and requirements. What do you want to do ?New mailCopy<img /> / <p></p><p>What do you want to do ?New mailCopy</p>