This study focuses on the meaningful encounters of patients and next of kin, as seen from their perspective. Identifying the attributes within meaningful encounters is important for increased understanding of caring and to expand and develop earlier formulated knowledge about caring relationships. Caring theory about the caring relationship provided a point of departure to illuminate the meanin...

BACKGROUND The topos of the Compassionate God is a dominant motive of the Jewish and Christian traditions. It is relevant for nursing because it asks the nurse to imitate God so as to become God-like. Also, to think that God suffers with the suffering believers is thought to give comfort to them. Because in the western world the topos of the Compassionate God represents the basis of the ethics ...

Network-based intelligent surveillance is becoming more popular, and remote monitoring platforms using web cameras with mobile robots can be used as child monitoring platforms in infant caring facilities. This paper presents a prototype of a service robot system as a nextgeneration intelligent surveillance system for child monitoring. In order to achieve this, a cooperative server-client contro...

As organizational changes in the healthcare system are in progress, to enhance care quality and reduce costs, it is important to investigate how these changes affect elderly patients' experiences and their rights to participate in the choice of healthcare. The aim of this study is to describe elderly patients' lived experience of participating in the choice of healthcare when being offered an a...

People who are sick are often the most vulnerable in society. They frequently rely on caring and competent healthcare professionals and should and do have expectations of a safe and caring environment. In a recent unexpected adventure through the healthcare system, the organisation, professionalism, caring and compassion associated with healthcare provision were in very short supply. A lack of ...

T his month marks the 50th anniversary of Dr. Norman Bethune's death. A new movie about his life, the most expensive Canadian film ever made, will soon be in the theatres. It was to have been released earlier, but there are reports it has been delayed by a script-related battle involving the lead actor, Donald Sutherland, and one of the writers, Ted Allan. Allan served with Bethune during the S...

BACKGROUND The consistent delivery of compassionate health and social care to older people is a matter of global concern to the nursing profession and the public it serves. The development and evaluation of effective interventions to address this concern is of prime importance. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This paper draws on findings from previous research to propose the use of a novel implementation...