Arbeidsglede i hjemmesykepleien

Abstract

Work enjoyment in home nursing
 This essay is a reflection on work enjoyment in home care nursing. Nurses describe working days that provide little pleasure. Work enjoyment tends to be the result of nurses’ relationship with colleagues and the people they are in contact with and care for. In interviews, home nurses describe busy days of physical and mental pressure to complete all their tasks. There is little enjoyment and a feeling of inadequacy in their work. They call for space for joy that gives them the possibility to achieve work satisfaction. An attempt is made to describe the factors that promote and constrain work enjoyment in nursing through reflection on home nurses’ experiences and the use of texts from the history of ideas and from nursing.

En trøstende kontakt mellom sykepleier og pasient

“…Sykepleieren hindres i sin oppmerksomhet overfor pasientene og vil kanskje vanskelig legge merke til om pasienten har det vondt og kan trenge trøst. Både i spesialisthelsetjenesten og i kommunehelsetjenesten uavhengig av hvilken arena eller avdeling sykepleiere arbeider på, lengter sykepleiere etter et tids-og mulighetsrom for å vaere naer i samtale og oppmerksomhet med pasientene (Glad, 2010(Glad, , 2019. Det synes derfor som at sykepleiere ønsker å vaere til trøst, men at tiden ikke strekker til.…”