Department of Nursing Science - News

The subject of the PhD thesis was Communication factors contributing to medication incidents in hospitals.

The PhD study investigated the interplay between the trilemma of core competence, quality of care, and patient safety.

How the workplace responds to the error is clearly linked to the emotional impact it can have on the healthcare professional who made the error, say researchers.

The festive atmosphere of the doctoral conferment ceremony held in Kuopio last June can now be revisited via a commemorative book, and via a video of the entire ceremonial conferment of degrees.

More than 60% of family caregivers of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease experienced at least mild depressive symptoms already at the time the diagnosis. In one third of them, depressive symptoms worsened during a five-year follow-up.

“Many foot health problems go untreated. Too often, people think that a little pain and discomfort is normal. In reality, they are a sign of the feet not being well,” Professor Minna Stolt says.

The dissertation focuses on health-promoting behaviours and quality of life among older Thai adults with hypertension living in urban and rural areas.

The Saastamoinen Foundation has donated EUR 100,000 to the University of Eastern Finland for grants for PhD researchers and postdoctoral researchers for a research period abroad.