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OBJECTIVE: Paternal participation and experiences in childhood weight management is an understudied studied area. Given the important role fathers play in childhood obesity prevention and treatment, the aim of this study was to explore Norwegian fathers' experiences of helping to prevent further weight gain in their children with overweight or obesity. METHODS: Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with eight fathers of ten children with overweight or obesity and analysed by qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The analysis resulted in one overall theme: Balancing between assuming and avoiding responsibility for weight management with a desire to preserve the child's dignity, comprising two themes: 1) Alternating between concern, helplessness and responsibility, 2) Needing acknowledgement, and flexible and tailored professional support, both of which have several sub-themes. CONCLUSION: Fathers need guidance on how to talk to their children to prevent further weight gain, while at the same time emphasizing safeguarding the child's dignity. Healthcare professionals should address parents' own emotional barriers and include fathers to a greater extent as a resource in family-centred counselling and tailor guidance and support to help with childhood weight management.
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Sobrepeso , Obesidad Infantil , Masculino , Niño , Humanos , Sobrepeso/terapia , Obesidad Infantil/prevención & control , Padre/psicología , Investigación Cualitativa , Aumento de PesoRESUMEN
PURPOSE: The family environment is crucial in the prevention and treatment of childhood obesity; however, there is a lack of knowledge concerning paternal perceptions and experiences in childhood weight management. The aim of this study was to explore (i) perceptions of contributing factors to childhood overweight and obesity among fathers of children with overweight or obesity and (ii) the fathers' experiences of their parental role caring for a child with overweight or obesity. METHOD: A qualitative content analysis was conducted of data from semi-structured in-depth interviews with eight Norwegian fathers of ten children and adolescents with overweight or obesity. RESULTS: The analysis identified one overall theme; Feeling uncertain and struggling to understand their own responsibility for the child's overweight or obesity, which consists of two themes; 1)Trying hard to figure out the child's obesity as a complex interaction of factors and 2)Family functioning-negotiating roles and responsibility in parenthood. CONCLUSION: Fathers must be met with understanding about their uncertainty and their struggle to understand their individual responsibility for their child's weight excess. It can be necessary to address the significance of family functioning, collaboration, responsibility within the familiy in addition to structural responsibility in clinical dialogues and counselling in order to help with weight management.
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Sobrepeso , Obesidad Infantil , Adolescente , Niño , Emociones , Padre , Humanos , Masculino , Padres , Obesidad Infantil/prevención & controlRESUMEN
AIM: Nursing students report emotional distress and feelings of inadequacy to the complexity of palliative care. This study aimed to examine nursing students' attainment of learning outcomes in palliative care through simulation and hospital placement. DESIGN: A longitudinal, intervention study. METHODS: Fifty-five second-year bachelor nursing students participated. Three waves of assessments were performed: (1) pretest; (2) postsimulation test and (3) postplacement test after the completion of the placement. Non-parametric Wilcoxon's signed-rank test for paired samples was used to test for differences between assessments of knowledge, skills and competence before and after simulation, and between postsimulation and post hospital placement. RESULTS: The results showed positive differences between pre- and postsimulation, indicating that learning outcomes were attained through simulation. However, negative differences between the postplacement test and postsimulation test scores indicated that the participants had practiced learning outcome from the simulation to a small degree during placement.
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Bachillerato en Enfermería , Enfermería de Cuidados Paliativos al Final de la Vida , Estudiantes de Enfermería , Humanos , Estudiantes de Enfermería/psicología , Cuidados Paliativos/métodos , Bachillerato en Enfermería/métodos , HospitalesRESUMEN
INTRODUCTION: Internationally, aging populations have increased needs for health care services, and often specialized care is required. However, services for older people tend to be underfunded, resulting in lack of qualified staff and poor quality care. Resource shortages lead to ethical challenges and insufficient nursing care. Therefore, quality in daily care for older people also depends upon the nurses' ability to make complex, ethical decisions in their practice. OBJECTIVES: To explore ethical challenges experienced by nurses caring for older people in clinical practice, and to provide examples of management for the challenges. METHODS: The data collected were written reflection notes by Norwegian continuous education students in advanced gerontology. Forty two of 83 notes were included and a thematic analysis in six steps was utilized. FINDINGS: There are three main themes: (1) meeting vulnerability, discomfort, and suffering, (2) collaboration with relatives, and (3) struggling to perform professional care. CONCLUSION: Nurses strive to "do what is in the patients' best interest", and this is fostered through collaboration, professionalism, care, and presence. Nurses' ethical competencies may develop when reflecting upon their own care performance. Building ethical competencies should be a priority in both nursing education and clinical practice. However, to improve care quality, nurses also need professional knowledge about older people care and ethical awareness should be supported by the workplace.
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AIM: To synthesize suicide prevention strategies for older adults. The review question was Which suicide prevention strategies are useful for older adults? DESIGN: Integrative review. DATA SOURCES: Academic Search Premier, CINAHL, Ovid PsycINFO and PubMed were searched for articles published between January 2009 and December 2019. REVIEW METHODS: An integrative review of quantitative, qualitative and theoretical papers with a qualitative thematic analysis. RESULTS: Key aspects of the included studies contributed to the formulation of four themes: (1) Recognizing older adults' physical and/or mental health problems and referring them for help and treatment, (2) Designing an educational programme, (3) Communication and dialogue about warning signs and (4) Social support and awareness of causing significant others emotional pain. The findings indicate an urgent need to identify effective suicide prevention strategies for older adults.
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Prevención del Suicidio , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Comunicación , Humanos , Apoyo SocialRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Relapse is high in lifestyle interventions involving behavioural change and weight loss maintenance. The purpose of lifestyle self-management interventions offered at Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) is to empower the participants, leading to self-management and improved health. Exploring beneficial self-management support and user involvement in HLCs is critical for quality, improving effectiveness and guiding approaches to lifestyle change support in overweight and obesity. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore how persons afflicted by overweight or obesity attending lifestyle interventions in Norwegian HLCs experience beneficial self-management support and user involvement. METHOD: Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 service users (5 men and 8 women). Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: One main theme was identified: regaining self-esteem and dignity through active involvement and long-term self-worth support in partnership with others. This main theme comprised four themes: (a) self-efficacy through active involvement and better perceived health, (b) valued through health-care professionals (HPs) acknowledgement, equality and individualized support, (c) increased motivation and self-belief through fellowship and peer support; and (d) maintenance of lifestyle change through accessibility and long-term support. CONCLUSION: Service users' active involvement, acknowledgement and long-term self-worth support from HPs and peers seem to support self-management and user involvement and may be some of the successful ingredients to lifestyle change. However, prolonged follow-up support is needed. A collectivistic and long-term perspective can integrate the importance of significant others and shared responsibility.
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Automanejo , Femenino , Humanos , Estilo de Vida , Masculino , Obesidad/terapia , Sobrepeso/terapia , Investigación CualitativaRESUMEN
It is an international consensus that health care workers should be well trained to promote care for seriously ill and dying patients. Nursing students have reported that they feel inadequately prepared for palliative care. Simulation exercises have been described as increasing knowledge, skills, and competence, and participants have reported that they are more confident and prepared for palliative care with this learning approach than without. So far, there has not been much reported on how simulation contributes to learning in clinical practice. Therefore, this study explored whether learning outcomes from palliative care simulation further developed in practice. Second-year bachelor's-prepared nursing students voluntarily participated in a simulation activity as part of their hospital practice. Eleven students were interviewed about their learning experiences. The findings indicate that a prerequisite for further learning was to actively choose palliative care. Relationships with nurses, patients, and relatives and factors in themselves served as gatekeepers for attending learning situations. Becoming a nurse who can provide palliative care was described as an emotionally challenging experience. Elements that promoted learning outcomes in palliative care were simulation experience, clarified expectations, support, and a good dialog with the nurse before and after the learning situation.
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Enfermería de Cuidados Paliativos al Final de la Vida , Cuidados Paliativos , Estudiantes de Enfermería , Humanos , AprendizajeRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: In light of the high prevalence of overweight and obesity among adults and the subsequent stigmatization and health consequences, there is a need to develop effective interventions to support lifestyle change. The literature supports the key role of healthcare professionals (HPs) in facilitating self-management through lifestyle interventions for those with chronic conditions. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how HPs practice self-management support (SMS) and user involvement for persons afflicted by overweight or obesity in lifestyle interventions in primary care Healthy Life Centres (HLC). The aim of this study was to explore how HPs provide SMS and what user involvement implies for HPs in HLCs. METHODS: An interpretative exploratory design, using qualitative thematic analysis of data from two focus group interviews with ten HPs from eight different HLCs, was conducted. RESULTS: The analysis resulted in one overall theme; A partnership based on ethical awareness, non-judgemental attitude, dialogue and shared responsibility, comprising four interrelated themes: 1) Supporting self-efficacy, self-worth and dignity through an attitude of respect, acknowledgement and generosity, 2) Promoting self-belief and self-perceived health, 3) Collaborating and sharing responsibility, and 4) Being flexible, adjusting and sharing time. CONCLUSION: HPs in HLCs see service users as equal partners in a collaboration based on shared responsibility, acknowledgement and generosity. In order to help, their practice involves a heightened level of ethical awareness, including a non-judgemental attitude and dialogue. HPs in HLCs have something to teach us about ethical acting and helping persons who are struggling with overweight or obesity to change their lifestyle and regain dignity. They seem to see the service users' existential needs and have learned the art of meeting the other in her/his most vulnerable situation i.e., seeking help for a "wrong lifestyle". It may be time to highlight the need for SMS and user involvement to focus on shared responsibility in partnership rather than personal responsibility. More research is required to explore the conditions for such practice.
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Personal de Salud/psicología , Estilo de Vida , Obesidad/prevención & control , Sobrepeso/prevención & control , Relaciones Médico-Paciente , Automanejo/psicología , Apoyo Social , Adulto , Femenino , Grupos Focales , Personal de Salud/estadística & datos numéricos , Humanos , Masculino , Atención Primaria de Salud , Investigación CualitativaRESUMEN
AIM: The aim of this study was to explore homecare professionals' perceptions of safety related to the use of telecare by older adults. DESIGN: An exploratory qualitative design was employed. METHODS: Two focus group interviews with ten female homecare professionals (nine Registered Nurses and one occupational therapist) were carried out between June-December 2017. The participants were recruited from six community homecare services in two Norwegian municipalities. Data were analysed using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The participants perceived that the use of telecare protects older adults against injury and insecurity by preventing harm and giving them a feeling of safety. However, they also stated that the use of telecare involves challenges that could lead to harm to older adults due to technological limitations and difficulties managing and understanding the technology. Although telecare can enhance safety, it is necessary to develop reliable technology and adapt it to the user's abilities, skills and resources.
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BACKGROUND: Learning palliative care is challenging for nursing students. Simulation is recommended as a learning approach. Whether experiences from simulation transfer into clinical practice must be investigated. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to explore nursing students' experiences of participating in palliative care simulation and examine how they describe the perceived transfer of knowledge, skills, and competence into clinical practise. METHOD: This prospective, qualitative study was comprised of 11 in-depth interviews with second-year bachelor nursing students. Content analysis was performed to analyse the answers to open-ended questions. RESULTS: From this sample, simulation is a preferred method to gather knowledge, skills, and attitudes towards palliative care. Realistic cases stimulated senses and feelings. Courage grew through active participation and debriefing and influenced the students' self-confidence. Debriefing seemed to alter the situation from one of chaos to control. CONCLUSIONS: Experiences from the simulation were perceived to transfer to practice, serve as a sound basis for clinical judgement, and enable communication with patients and their relatives. Continuity in learning through simulation combined with practice is highlighted.
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Percepción , Estudiantes de Enfermería/psicología , Adulto , Femenino , Humanos , Entrevistas como Asunto/métodos , Masculino , Cuidados Paliativos/métodos , Estudios Prospectivos , Investigación Cualitativa , Entrenamiento Simulado/métodosRESUMEN
AIM: To examine factors that influence the health of older widows and widowers. The review question was: What is the evidence of the relationship between widowhood and health in older adults? DESIGN: Systematic review. DATA SOURCES: Academic Search Elite, CINAHL, Medline (Ovid) and PubMed were searched for articles published between January 2013-December 2017. REVIEW METHODS: A systematic review of quantitative research with a qualitative thematic analysis. RESULTS: The selection process resulted in 12 studies. One of the themes that emerged was: emotional challenges related to experiences of bereavement, depression and anxiety, which was based on the sub-theme social support as the main strategy for coping with emotional pain and suffering. The second theme was: struggling with poor physical health. The findings indicate that healthcare professionals need knowledge and skills to deal with the health consequences of widowhood in old age. Building community teams can prevent emotional and physical health problems, as well as reduce mortality.
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BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity are complex conditions, associated with a wide range of serious health issues. In contemporary society, body size is an important part of a person's self-representation. Lifestyle changes are difficult and long-term weight management is associated with a high risk of failure. In primary health care in Norway, lifestyle interventions are offered by Healthy Life Centres (HLCs) to those seeking help with weight management. The aim of this study was to explore HLC participants' experiences of living with overweight or obesity and perceptions of seeking help to change dietary and activity habits. METHOD: This exploratory study employed a qualitative design. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 13 participants. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using qualitative content analysis. RESULTS: The analysis resulted in one main theme: Searching for dignity, based on two themes: 1) Needing to justify avoidance of personal responsibility and 2) A desire to change. CONCLUSION: Changing dietary and activity habits is difficult as the emotional alternation between shame, guilt and pride influences the ability to assume personal responsibility. A deeper understanding of each participant's perceptions and experiences is important for the ability to tailor and provide a high quality health service. Addressing participants' emotional distress and search for dignity is necessary for enabling dietary and activity change. This should be considered in the future development of HLCs and health promotion interventions in order to educate service users about emotions and the role they play in food consumption and inactivity. Weight stigma at individual and system level as well as responsibility related to dilemmas about "right" or "wrong" lifestyle should be addressed.
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BACKGROUND: Identifying deliberate self-harm in the young and its relationship with bullying victimization is an important public health issue. METHODS: A systematic review was performed to explore evidence of the association between deliberate self-harm and school bullying victimization in young people, as well as the mediating effect of depressive symptoms and self-stigma on this association. An advanced search in the following electronic databases was conducted in January 2018: PubMed/Medline; CINAHL; PsycINFO; PsycARTICLES; Science Direct; Scopus, and Cochrane Library. Studies that fulfilled the inclusion criteria were further assessed for their methodological integrity. The Norwegian Knowledge Centre for Health Services tool was applied for cross-sectional studies and the Critical Appraisal Skills Programme instrument for the cohort studies. Only empirical quantitative studies published in the English language in peer reviewed journals during the last decade (2007-2018) aimed at exploring the association between deliberate self-harm and school bullying victimization in community-based schoolchildren with a mean age of under 20 years were included. RESULTS: The reviewed cross-sectional and cohort studies (22) revealed a positive association between school bullying victimization and deliberate self-harm, including nonsuicidal self-injury, which remained statistically significant when controlled for the main confounders. The mediating role of depressive symptoms in the association between deliberate self-harm and school bullying victimization was confirmed. A dose-response effect was shown in the association between nonsuicidal self-injury and school bullying victimization, whilst the mediating effect of depressive symptoms needs to be further explored. No studies were found directly exploring the mediating effect of self-stigma in the association between deliberate self-harm and bullying victimization. CONCLUSION: Targeted interventions aimed at eliminating victimization behaviours within the school context are therefore proposed, as well as interventions to promote healthy parenting styles for the parents of schoolchildren. Moreover, school healthcare professionals should screen students involved in bullying for self-injury, and vice versa.
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Conducta del Adolescente/psicología , Acoso Escolar/psicología , Víctimas de Crimen/psicología , Conducta Autodestructiva/psicología , Adolescente , Niño , Estudios de Cohortes , Estudios Transversales , Depresión , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Instituciones Académicas , Estigma Social , Estudiantes/psicologíaRESUMEN
Aim: The aim of this study was to explore first-line nurse managers' perceptions of the challenges involved in decision-making concerning older patients who wish to die. Design: A descriptive qualitative design in three communities in Norway between January 2016 and June 2016. Methods: Qualitative focus group interviews with eight first-line nurse managers. Results: One main theme and two themes were identified: Struggling to make the right decision, The challenge of social isolation and loneliness and When life becomes too painful and problematic. The sub-themes revealed that: Arranging social meeting places where the older patients can talk to other older people is crucial. The participants explained that it was not an easy task to gain an overview of the older patients situation. The right decision could be encouraging the patients to talk about their problems by giving them more time, thereby showing that somebody cares about them.
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the implementation of the research-based Chronic Care Model (CCM), discuss methods and summarise research recommendations for improving the care of depressed elderly persons. Interviews were conducted and state-of-the-art reviews employed. Three important areas emerged: (1) barriers to and facilitating factors in the implementation of the CCM; (2) the challenges involved in re-designing the delivery system and interdisciplinary team collaboration; and (3) empirical evidence pertaining to self-management support and how older persons manage to live with depressive ill-health. In conclusion, implementation research requires evidence-based knowledge, staff involvement and familiarity with the context in which development occurs.
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Enfermedad Crónica/enfermería , Enfermedad Crónica/psicología , Conducta Cooperativa , Trastorno Depresivo/enfermería , Trastorno Depresivo/psicología , Manejo de la Enfermedad , Enfermería Geriátrica/organización & administración , Implementación de Plan de Salud/organización & administración , Comunicación Interdisciplinaria , Modelos de Enfermería , Enfermería Psiquiátrica/organización & administración , Anciano , Investigación en Enfermería Clínica/organización & administración , Enfermería Basada en la Evidencia/organización & administración , Humanos , Capacitación en Servicio/organización & administración , Liderazgo , Mejoramiento de la Calidad/organización & administraciónRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Most depressed older people in a suicidal state have mixed feelings, where the wish to live and the wish to die wage a battle. AIMS: To explore and describe depressed older people's experiences of being suicidal and their search for meaning. METHOD: Data were collected from 29 participants resident in the Rogaland and Vestfold districts of Norway, by means of individual interviews, after which a thematic analysis was performed. RESULTS: For the participants in this study, the lived experiences of the situated meaning of survival after being suicidal comprised a main theme - "shadows from the past" - and two themes - "feeling that something inside is broken" and "a struggle to catch the light." CONCLUSION: Mental health-care professionals might be able to reduce the risk of suicide and perturbation by helping depressed older people to explore, resolve, and ultimately come to terms with their unresolved historical issues. Additional valuable strategies in primary care settings include encountering patients frequently, monitoring adherence to care plans, and providing support to address the source of emotional pain and distress.
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Trastorno Bipolar/psicología , Trastorno Depresivo/psicología , Atención Primaria de Salud , Ideación Suicida , Anciano , Anciano de 80 o más Años , Divorcio , Femenino , Humanos , Masculino , Persona de Mediana Edad , Noruega , Investigación Cualitativa , Características de la Residencia , ViudezRESUMEN
The aim of this paper is to deepen the understanding of depressed elderly persons' lived experiences of physical health problems. Individual in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 depressed elderly persons who suffer from physical health problems. A hermeneutic analysis was performed, yielding one main theme, living with stigma, and three themes: longing to be taken seriously, being uncertain about whether the pain is physical or mental, and a sense of living in a war zone. The second theme comprised two subthemes, feeling like a stranger and feeling dizzy, while the third had one subtheme: afraid of being helpless and dependent on others. Stigma deprives individuals of their dignity and reinforces destructive patterns of isolation and hopelessness. Nurses should provide information in a sensitive way and try to avoid diagnostic overshadowing. Effective training programmes and procedures need to be developed with more focus on how to handle depressive ill health and physical problems in older people.
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Older people with depression constitute a vulnerable group, and evidence from different parts of the world has demonstrated the need for healthcare improvements at the community level. In this study, we described team members' perceptions of improvements in the care of older people with depression living in the community after the implementation of the Chronic Care Model, with a focus on delivery-system design, self-management support, and teamwork. This follow-up study was based on focus-group interviews with healthcare team members. The data were analyzed by qualitative content analysis. Four themes emerged: (i) ensuring a pathway to the top level of the organization; (ii) the need for leadership from senior managers; (iii) the need to formalize collaboration; and (iv) increasing self-management. Senior managers should cooperate with specialist care givers and administrators in the community. They must also redesign the delivery system to facilitate teamwork and the self-management ability of older people with depression.
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Atención a la Salud/organización & administración , Depresión/terapia , Servicios de Salud para Ancianos/organización & administración , Grupo de Atención al Paciente/organización & administración , Anciano , Enfermedad Crónica , Conducta Cooperativa , Femenino , Grupos Focales , Humanos , Liderazgo , Persona de Mediana Edad , Noruega , Investigación Cualitativa , Mejoramiento de la Calidad , AutocuidadoRESUMEN
The aim of this qualitative systematic review was to report a comprehensive literature synthesis of older persons' narratives about what they need in order to survive when suffering from depression. Their survival strategies seem to be a state rarely outlined in the literature. A systematic search of EBSCOhost/Academic Search Premier, ProQuest and PubMed was conducted for the period January 2000 to April 2012. Data were analyzed by means of thematic analysis. Thirteen studies were selected and three themes emerged from synthesis: the need for courage, strength, and self-reliance; the meaning of responsibility; and wearing a mask of normalcy to hide the shame. The first comprised two subthemes: the value of faith and distraction and activity; the second had no subtheme; and the third had one subtheme: reaching out of loneliness towards aloneness and connectivity. Further research should be focused on how community projects can improve health services such as enhancing the safety of health care and disseminating health information.
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Trastorno Depresivo/psicología , Servicios de Salud para Ancianos , Narración , Sobrevivientes/psicología , Actividades Cotidianas , Actitud Frente a la Salud , Trastorno Depresivo/prevención & control , Enfermería Basada en la Evidencia , Necesidades y Demandas de Servicios de Salud , Humanos , Relaciones Interpersonales , Investigación Cualitativa , AutocuidadoRESUMEN
AIM: The aim of this systematic review was to increase the knowledge of developing effective nursing leadership and management in order to improve the outcomes of older persons in the community. BACKGROUND: There is a need for increased knowledge of nursing leadership and management in order to improve the outcomes of older persons in the community. EVALUATION: A review of the literature published in different databases between January 2000 and May 2012 was conducted. Eleven articles met the inclusion criteria and were evaluated by means of thematic content analysis. KEY ASPECTS: Six themes were identified: Ability to change the attitudes towards older persons; Building trust; Ensuring efficacy in management decisions; Lack of knowledge about how to overcome relational challenges; Health system collaboration to achieve goals and visions; and Staff members' experiences of the meaning of and possibility to influence their work, all of which are of importance for effective nursing leadership and management in the care of older persons. CONCLUSION: Advanced nursing knowledge is necessary in order to improve the work and vision involved in nursing leadership and management. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING MANAGEMENT: Findings indicate that relational and organisational abilities are necessary components of effective nursing leadership and management.