Supportive leadership in Swedish community night nursing

Abstract

The current municipal social care organization of community nursing of older people in which RNs have extensive responsibilities with insufficient control, is a working condition with a risk for decreased quality of care and a high risk for work-related stress syndrome.

Managers' views on and experiences with moral case deliberation in nursing teams

“…, Gustafsson et al . ). Participatory management not only includes active managers' partnership in team‐related processes but also refers to self‐governance of the team.…”

Different Cultures but Similar Positive Attitudes: A Comparison between Thai and Swedish Nursing Students' Attitudes toward Older People

“…In Sweden, nursing for older people with care needs takes place in special forms of housing, nursing homes, and other community-based settings or home care (Gustafsson, Fagerberg, & Asp, 2010a, 2010bThe Swedish Institute, 2011). Nurse aids', nurse COMPARING THAI AND SWEDISH NURSING STUDENTS' ATTITUDES 93 assistants', and registered nurses' care for older people has the characteristic of long-term (Caffrey, 2005) and palliative care (Johnston & Smith, 2006) around the clock and is defined as gerontological nursing and community nursing (Caffrey, 2005).…”

The use of drama to support reflection and understanding of the residents’ situation in dementia care: a pilot study

“…, 2010; Lutzén et al. , 2010), which in turn seems to be related to the development of burnout (Gustafsson et al. , 2010).…”

“…The tension between what the staff want to do and what they are able to do has also been described in the literature in terms of stress of conscience (Glasberg et al, 2007;Juthberg et al, 2010) and moral distress (Gustafsson et al, 2010;Lutzén et al, 2010), which in turn seems to be related to the development of burnout (Gustafsson et al, 2010). Stress of conscience and moral distress are not, however, specific to dementia care, having also been described in relation to both oncological (Shepard, 2010) and end-of-life care (Robinson, 2010).…”