Akutmottagningen är en stressam miljö där besökande patienter har olika förutsättningar och erfarenheter. Det är viktigt att patienten delges information samt att vårdpersonalen ser till att patienten förstår informationen. Informationsförmedling är en mycket central del i sjuksköterskans yrke. Syftet med studien var att beskriva potentiella skillnader i hur patienter bedömde information från sjuk

Recent accidents such as the Macondo blowout actualize the issue of offshore safety. Accidents do occur in spite of actions taken to prevent them from happening. The energy-barrier philosophy is the governing principle within the Norwegian offshore industry. The paradox with that philosophy is that the construction of additional barriers may increase complexity within the system. Risk may be seen

The purpose of this report is to examine if social risks are an urban phenomenon or if it also occurs in smaller Swedish communities. Therefore, events in two small municipals were analyzed. The report also aims to examine if risk and vulnerability analysis is an appropriate tool for smaller municipals to work with social risks. The analysis shows that social risks are present also in smaller muni

Syfte: Syftet med denna studie är att undersöka skillnaden i hantering av goodwill mellan Sverige och USA under perioden år 2006 till 2012, med hjälp av varje enskilts land gällande regelverk. Vidare kommer en undersökning av tidigare studier i ämnet göras för att försöka förklara övriga möjliga faktorer som påverkar goodwill. Metod: Metoden som användes i studien är kvantitativ med en deduktiv a

Att stå på scen och sjunga inför en publik innebär på många sätt att iklä sig en roll. Den västerländska konstmusiken och opera är traditionstyngda genrer med starka normer för hur sångare ska bete sig på scen. Normer i samhället i stort påverkar människors medvetna och omedvetna livsstilsval och värderingar, samt förmåga att förändra sin livssituation. De hänger ihop med makt och fungerar hämmandSinging on stage is in many ways equivalent to dressing up as a character. Western classical music and opera are both genres with heavy traditions of how to act on stage. Norms in society in general affect how people consciously and subconsciously lead their lives, what their values are and what ability they have to change their life. Norms are connected with power and impede and restrict deviatio

The study is based on interviews and is a qualitative study based on grounded theory and answer on why men and women live in high-risk rural areas in Tubu, Botswana. Tubu is a village in the northwestern part of Botswana close to the Okavango Delta. To answer the question the authors discuss risk perception and the differences between men and women. The interviews are about the respondents' li

The society’s population is growing older and it is more common with alcohol related prob-lems. Because of that, our purpose with this study was to describe how staff in municipal el-derly care perceives, manage and treat older people with alcohol use and abuse. We have cho-sen to interview staff in three retirement homes and three assisted living groups in three dif-ferent places, a total of six

A study of Sörmlandskustens emergency service’s preventative fire education regarding if participants of the education programs had a change in basic fire knowledge and attitude towards fire safety. Fire knowledge amongst participants had a marginal rise but their attitude remained the same as before participating in the fire education.

This essay begins with the author trying to find similar problem areas within the topic of children´s rights in Romania and in Sweden. The contrasting countries, both members of the EU turns out having one common similarity: discrimination. To investigate the topic further a thesis regarding institutional and structural discrimination by Masoud Kamali is applied. The thesis will provide the inform

Syftet med detta examensarbete som anlägger ett lärarperspektiv är att belysa och öka förståelsen om ett inom pedagogisk forskning i Sverige hittills föga uppmärksammat fenomen, som antas ställa gymnasielärare i moderna språk inför en rad didaktiska utmaningar: modersmålselever som deltar i andraspråksundervisningen, här benämnt L1/L2-fenomenet. Till grund för detta arbete ligger ett antal forskni

The aim of this study was to analyze the discourse of the theories by John Gray about relationships between men and women. The basis of this study was to analyze the social structures in our society today. I wanted to answer the questions following: In what way does John Gray construct male and female qualities in the literature? In what kind of discourse does John Gray discuss love? And how the t

The aim of this study was to depict the situation of people with a HIV-diagnosis in Sweden today. In my study, based on 6 biographies from HIV-positive people, 3 of these from men who has sexual contacts with other men and 3 from heterosexual women, I used qualitative content analysis to read the stories and find important themes. To find these themes I used my research questions. They were as fol

En hypotetiskt och teoretiskt utformad analys av historieskrivning i relation till läsarens samt textens villkor. Det empiriska materialet är begränsat till Peter Englunds debutroman "Poltava", och det teoretiska ramverket, i syftet eklektiskt, influerat av hermeneutik, dekonstruktion, post-klassisk narratologi, kognitionsvetenskap mm.

Bakgrund: Mötet på en akutmottagning präglas av högt tempo och kort vårdtid. Som sjuksköterska är det av vikt att arbeta med god kompetens för att ge bästa möjliga vård. Syftet: Beskriva relationen mellan patientens utbildningsnivå och bedömning av sjuksköterskans kompetenser samt att lyfta fram de kompetenser, som enligt patienten, brister eller utmärker sig hos sjuksköterskan. Metod: En kvantita

The purpose of this study was to study the factors which affect the decisions made by social workers who deal with financial assistance, as well as examine how the social workers perceive the discretion that the Social Services Act allows and how they think the discretion affects their work and their decisions. Since the purpose was to explore the experience of social workers, we have used a quali

The purpose of this study was to explore the professional and subjective thoughts and attitudes of professionals who are assigned to meet both men and women who suffer intimate partner violence (IPV) in a heterosexual relationship. The study focuses on men who are victims of IPV, and the professions that are interviewed range from police, social service, victims support and staff nurse. The study

This study is featuring six social welfare officer's stories about client's health and the organization’s resources regarding health. The aim of this study is to analyze how the social welfare officer´s describe their client´s health. We are using semi structured interviews and discourse analysis. Our theoretical point of view is social constructivism and street-level bureaucracy. The resu