{"title":"[Collaborative learning through the Internet--an empirical study in nursing education].","authors":"I Mänty, M Wright","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increasing use of e-mail and other electronic means of communication with their associated informality, interactivity and speed provide an ideal vehicle for students from different Schools of Nursing to work together. The Internet services can provide an open education environment. This paper will document the processes that took place in one collaborative exercise where two student groups worked together to improve care planning skills with the added bonus of improving their confidence and abilities as communicators. From Finland thirteen psychiatric nurse students were involved in the exercise and from Wales there was a group of six students all of whom were Registered General Nurses following the Mental Health Branch Program. All the interaction between students and teachers was arranged by e-mail. There are a range of educational objectives that were achieved these include use of e-mail, improvement in care planning technique, developing abilities to constructively criticise the work of others, to learn from and share in the experience of others.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"71 1","pages":"18-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20410252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[A written nursing care plan--a tool for good care?].","authors":"M Mäkisalo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Paihola Hospital is an institutional psychiatric care unit of the North Karelia Hospital District. The hospital has under several years developed nursing documentation by education and peer review. Documentation has improved especially in the following areas: 1) the patient and his family participate in planning, implementing and evaluating the care more than before, 2) data collecting has become more extensive and the patient's total situation is taken into consideration so that his resources, strengths, hopes and dreams will be taken into account in the nursing care plan, 3) the nursing diagnosis has helped us to detach from the medicine and problem centricity, 4) tangible goals and means are always agreed upon together with the patient (= care contract) if it is possible, 5) daily documentation has become evaluative; progress evaluations and final evaluation are a natural part of nursing documentation.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"71 1","pages":"16-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1998-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20410251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Goodness in nurse's heart matters. What is goodness in nursing practice?].","authors":"P Peltomäki","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Manifestation of goodness in nursing has been researched very little contrary to good care. This article is based on a Master's thesis the aim of which is to describe goodness in nursing as it is experienced by a nurse. The research is qualitative and based on the phenomenological philosophy of science in which the truth is understood through an individual experience. The research method is developed by Paterson and Zderad. There were 15 nurses who participated in the research and the following results were derived from their essays. Life experience and prevailing values of society influence on the nurse's values which are reflected in nursing practice. The nurse's sensitivity, maturity, flexibility, hardiness and ability to grow combined with technical skills facilitate goodness. Goodness is an open relationship with another people. In this constantly living relationship closeness, listening by heart and willingness to bring good to the other people exist simultaneously.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"70 7","pages":"10-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20321633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Students' work is important].","authors":"A Malmi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"70 8","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20337885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Experience in using the Indicator of Good Care in the health center of Lappeenranta].","authors":"A Jalas","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Indicator of Good Care was developed under PhD Helena Leino-Kilpi's (University of Turku) leadership as a means to measure the quality level of care from the patient's perspective. The indicator has been tested. It includes questionnaires for both patients and nurses. In 1996 during the week number 45 the questionnaires were handed out. 405 questionnaires were given to the patients and 231 to the nurses of health centre of Lappeenranta. The response rate of the patients was 46% and the nurses' corresponding rate was 92%. The total results show a good quality of care in the health centre of Lappeenranta as it is experienced by patients and nurses. The results can be seen as fairly good, but still there is something that needs development. All the results will be studied in the units during the autumn of 1997 and decisions concerning the targets for development are made.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"70 9","pages":"28-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20397280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Day case surgery in Kuopio].","authors":"H Heikkinen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In day case surgery nursing the nurse must have multidisciplinary basic knowledge and skills and strong experience in nursing practice in order to be able to prepare a patient for an operation, to treat him during the operation and postoperatively and to give the patient guidance about care at home so that he understands it. A questionnaire which was completed by the patients in a day case surgery unit exposed that they were generally satisfied with their care. Some patients asked for more specific information about the physical activity they can have and what they may or may not do after the operation. Varicose veins patients asked for more guidance about bandaging, and phimosis patients wanted more information on how to take care of the wound during the healing process.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"70 9","pages":"24-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20397279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Primary nursing--a short literature review].","authors":"S Laakso, P Routasalo","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The literature review inspects how primary nursing influences care according to the perspectives of patients, their relatives and nursing personnel. The aim is to investigate research approaches, methods and results of primary nursing. The research concerning primary nursing is heavily focused on the perspective of personnel and quantitative research. This subject has been investigated only a little from the perspectives of patients and their relatives. However the results of these studies show that impressions of the patients, their relatives and nursing personnel support the assumption that primary nursing has a positive influence on the quality of care.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"70 9","pages":"32-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20397281","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[An operations model for treating diseases of fat metabolism].","authors":"L Pelttari, M Keihäskoski","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article illustrates an operations model for treating diseases of fat metabolism. Implementation of the model was began in the autumn of 1996 by Vakka-Suomen sairaala in Uusikaupunki and by health centres in its region. Development of multiprofessional co-operation in screening and treating these diseases is a part of wider quality project work in treatment of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this project is to clarify and unite research and treatment practices by creating a good common guide for all professional groups. A regional operations model concerning screening, diagnose and treatment will be planned. Cornerstones of drug-free treatment are diet, physical exercise and losing weight. Medication will be initiated if the goal is not achieved by the drug-free treatment. The model includes exact directions for initiation and follow-up of medication. Local education will motivate all health care professionals to follow the common principles.</p>","PeriodicalId":77374,"journal":{"name":"Sairaanhoitaja (Helsinki, Finland : 1991)","volume":"70 8","pages":"30-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"20337891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}