Aim

This study aimed to describe patients, relatives and nurses' experiences of specialised palliative home care.

Design

Integrated literature review.

Methods

The review was performed using the PRISMA 2020 Statement. The searches were conducted in Cinahl, PubMed and Scopus.

Results

Eighteen articles were selected. An overall theme ‘co-creation for personalised home care’ emerged, based on three categories: ‘Safe and secure care’, ‘Care based on wishes and needs’ and ‘Relatives' caring role’. Patients, relatives and nurses' experiences showed that co-creation was an important strategy for achieving goals and enabling patients to remain at home despite illness and limited life expectancy.

Conclusion

Co-creation becomes a prerequisite for personalised home care and enabled through collaboration and learning between patients, relatives and nurses.

Patient or Public Contribution

This article is an overview of how patients, relatives and nurses experience care at home, supported by a specialised palliative care unit, and the result showed that co-creation enables personalised care.

Under perioden 2024–01–05––2025–04–30 har ett utvecklingsprojekt genomförts i samverkan mellan Institutionen för hälsovetenskap vid Högskolan Väst och kommunal primärvård i Mellerud och Uddevalla. Syftet med projektet var att implementera handledningsmodellen Patientnära Lärande i kombination med kollaborativt lärande inom kommunal primärvård samt att utvärdera arbetssättet för verksamhetsförlagd utbildning inom kommunerna. Projektet omfattade bland annat implementering av modellen, information, utbildning och stöd till handledande sjuksköterskor.

Målet var att handledningsmodellen Patientnära Lärande skulle ge stöd till handledande sjuksköterskor även efter att projektet avslutats. Efter projektets slut var ambitionen att ha skapat en struktur för implementering och spridning av handledningsmodellen till andra kommuner inom Fyrbodal, där en utökning av projektet inkluderade Uddevalla kommun. På så sätt fanns möjlighet att öka antalet verksamhetsförlagda utbildningsplatser med bibehållen hög kvalitet på handledning.

För att skapa förutsättningar för handledare och studenter h ar utbildningsmaterial arbetats fram, inklusive filmer till studenter och handledare samt en minihandbok om handledning för handledare. På projektets hemsida har man kunnat följa processens utveckling.

För att stärka VFU inom kommunal primärvård behöver studentpärmen anpassas till verksamheterna. En tydlig introduktion med filmer och lokala genomgångar av ansvar och handledningsmodell är viktig för både studenter och handledare. Reflektionsstunder bör schemaläggas regelbundet och ingå i arbetslistan. En särskild lärmiljö med tillgång till dator och arbetsro nära handledare främjar självständigt lärande. Studenter behöver också egna arbetsredskap för att kunna ta ansvar och arbeta mer självständigt. Studentpärmen ska användas aktivt i handledning och reflektion, även vid handledarbyten. Huvudhandledaren har ansvar för introduktion och uppföljning. Regelbundna samtal med handledare och ansvariga är nödvändiga för att följa upp behov och utveckling. Slutligen krävs en nära samverkan mellan lärosäte och verksamhet för att säkerställa en fungerande implementering.

Background

Newly graduated healthcare and social work professionals can experience stress and a perceived lack of competence when transitioning from academia to clinical practice, which can lead to health problems or leaving the profession. Globally, creating healthy workplaces remains a challenge. The aim of this study, which had a salutogenic approach, was to explore health-promoting resources and workplace experiences among newly graduated healthcare and social work professionals.

Methods

This multicenter cross-sectional study included Swedish healthcare and social work professionals in their second year after graduation, recruited from six universities. Data were collected in March 2023 via a self-reported, web-based survey using validated instruments: the salutogenically oriented 13-item Sense of Coherence (SOC) Scale, the Salutogenic Health Indicator Scale (SHIS), and the 32-item Work Experience Measurement Scale (WEMS), along with questions on health, well-being, lifestyle and social factors at work, including three from the General Nordic Questionnaire (QPSNordic). Data were analyzed in SPSS 28 with nonparametric tests and Spearman correlations.

Results

A total of 115 newly graduated healthcare and social work professionals completed the questionnaire. The results indicated that those who expressed they were sure to stay in the profession reported a higher total WEMS score (p < 0.001), as well as higher scores in five out of six dimensions: supportive working conditions (p < 0.001), internal work experience (p < 0.001), autonomy (p < 0.001), time experience (p = 0.006), and management (p = 0.029). Participants who rated their well-being as good scored higher in supportive working conditions (p = 0.025) and the change process (p = 0.008). Those living with children reported higher internal work experience scores (p = 0.019).

The results revealed positive and medium-strong to strong correlations between WEMS, SHIS, and SOC total scores. Specifically, there were medium-strong correlations between SHIS and SOC and two dimensions of WEMS: supportive working conditions and time experience, and between SHIS and the change process dimension.

Conclusions

This study highlights the importance of salutogenic resources in supporting newly graduated professionals. Factors such as supportive working conditions, autonomy, and internal work experience were linked to well-being and intention to stay in the profession. Understanding these factors can inform workplace interventions to promote retention and health in early career stages.

Background

Trait emotional intelligence (EI) is often assessed using the 30-item Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (TEIQue-SF). However, previous research using item response theory (IRT) modelling has identified several underperforming items. This study aimed to psychometrically evaluate, refine, and optimize the TEIQueSF using IRT, with the goals of identifying and eliminating underperforming items, and examining whether items in the refined version function differently across sexes. Furthermore, the study sought to further validate the Swedish version of the TEIQue-SF.

Methods

This cross-sectional study surveyed 845 first-year students aged 19–59 (87% women) from seven healthcare and social work programs across six universities in southern Sweden. Participants completed the TEIQue-SF and health-related measures for convergent validity. IRT modeling employed the Graded Response Model (GRM) using the 2-Parameter Logistic Model in IRT for Patient-Reported Outcomes (IRTPRO). Marginal reliability and differential item functioning (DIF) were assessed with IRT, internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha and mean inter-item correlations, and validity through evaluating Direct Discrepancy Dynamic fit index (DDDFI) and bivariate correlations.

Results

The IRT modeling identified underperforming items, leading to a refined 12-item TEIQue-SF that effectively captures trait EI with high-quality items. The item selection process is detailed and supplemented. The shortened measure showed a strong correlation with the original (r=.94), demonstrated good reliability, and exhibited uniform DIF for only one item (Item 15). A comparison of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model fit statistics using the DDDFI indicated a fair fit for the TEIQue-SF. Consistent with previous research on the TEIQue-SF, both 30-item and 12 item versions demonstrated strong convergent validity with health-related measures within the Swedish context.

Conclusions

The 12-item TEIQue-SF is a brief, precise, and valid measure for assessing trait EI while preserving its global conceptual structure. IRT modeling and validity testing against health-related measures confirm that 12-item TEIQue-SF effectively captures trait EI.

Background: Trait emotional intelligence (EI) is often assessed using the 30-item Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Short Form (TEIQue-SF). However, previous research using item response theory (IRT) modelling has identified several underperforming items. This study aimed to psychometrically evaluate, refine, and optimize the TEIQue-SF using IRT, with the goals of identifying and eliminating underperforming items, and examining whether items in the refined version function differently across sexes. Furthermore, the study sought to further validate the Swedish version of the TEIQue-SF.

Methods: This cross-sectional study surveyed 845 first-year students aged 19–59 (87% women) from seven healthcare and social work programs across six universities in southern Sweden. Participants completed the TEIQue-SF and health-related measures for convergent validity. IRT modeling employed the Graded Response Model (GRM) using the 2-Parameter Logistic Model in IRT for Patient-Reported Outcomes (IRTPRO). Marginal reliability and differential item functioning (DIF) were assessed with IRT, internal consistency with Cronbach’s alpha and mean inter-item correlations, and validity through evaluating Direct Discrepancy Dynamic fit index (DDDFI) and bivariate correlations.

Results: The IRT modeling identified underperforming items, leading to a refined 12-item TEIQue-SF that effectively captures trait EI with high-quality items. The item selection process is detailed and supplemented. The shortened measure showed a strong correlation with the original (r = .94), demonstrated good reliability, and exhibited uniform DIF for only one item (Item 15). A comparison of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) model fit statistics using the DDDFI indicated a fair fit for the TEIQue-SF. Consistent with previous research on the TEIQue-SF, both 30-item and 12 item versions demonstrated strong convergent validity with health-related measures within the Swedish context.

Conclusions: The 12-item TEIQue-SF is a brief, precise, and valid measure for assessing trait EI while preserving its global conceptual structure. IRT modeling and validity testing against health-related measures confirm that 12-item TEIQue-SF effectively captures trait EI.

Aim This study described healthcare professionals' experiences of tasks that contribute to job satisfaction.

Design A qualitative descriptive study was conducted.

Methods Data were collected through a survey questionnaire with an open‐ended question on job satisfaction. 5464 healthcare professionals responded to the questionnaire. Data were analysed through manifest qualitative content analysis.

Results The theme ‘Enhancing healthcare professionals' job satisfaction through coherence, manageability, and meaningfulness’ emerged with the following five categories: Enhancing person‐centred care, Enhancing education, mentorship, and patient communication, Enhancing active participation in organisational development and transformation, Enhancing multi‐professional teamwork and collaborative care, and Enhancing rewards and support.

Conclusion This study emphasises that job satisfaction among healthcare professionals depends on meaningful caring activities, a supportive work environment, and workplace resources. These factors boost resilience, reduce stress, and improve retention and patient care. A resource‐based, salutogenic approach promotes both professional and personal well‐being, fostering healthier, more effective healthcare environments.

Extensive research shows nurses’ work environment to be particularly stressful. This study develops, explores, and psychometrically tests a new profession-specific questionnaire identifying generalised and specific resistance resources, that make it possible to measure resources to manage work-related stress. An exploratory study design was employed. The questionnaire development was inspired by the MEASURE approach and the salutogenic theory of health. Building on the results from a literature review of nursing research and salutogenesis, supplemented by twelve interviews with hospital nurses, an item pool was generated. The first version was pilot-tested in a group of nurses who were studying to become specialist nurses. The second version of the questionnaire was psychometrically tested on a sample of registered nurses in close patient care (n = 475), analysed using confirmatory factor analysis to test seven predefined domains of the questionnaire. The analysis revealed a first order seven-domain model of 21 items: job satisfaction, professional role, work motivation, commitment, belonging in the workplace, factors and conditions for remaining in the profession, and workload. The structure of the questionnaire indicates its usefulness in clinical practice for measuring resistance resources.