Research
The core of nursing is addressing psychosocial, relational, and physical needs and are central to the scope of practice of nurses, here understood as registered nurses (RNs) or nursing associates, healthcare-workers and so on (i.e. non-RNs). Nurses scope of practice is defined as “the full spectrum of roles, functions, responsibilities, activities and decision-making capacity which individuals within the profession are educated, competent and authorised to perform”. Consequently, it is well within the role and function of RNs to evaluate, lead, co-ordinate, assess and plan nursing activities that focus on the patients’ fundamentals of care, regardless of context or patient groups. However, the scientific literature is to a lesser degree reflecting the unique role, function and activities of RNs in relation to the fundamentals of care, and this is especially the case for older people in facility-based care (i.e. nursing homes). This is troublesome as the residents living out their final days are considered frail, multimorbid and in are in a need of compensatory fundamental care that reflects continuity, that is, a precursor for high quality care.
As nursing practice does not occur in a vacuum, it is better viewed as an event within a complex system, hence, nursing practice is entangled in an intricate interrelationship between the activities focusing the fundamentals of care and the context in which the nurse conducts their practice. Consequently, a number of contextual modulators comes to play which modulate and affect nursing practice positively or negatively. Examples of contextual modulators are found on personal a personal level, such as professional identity in nursing, but modulators are also present in the organisational, leadership and organisational structural levels.
The overarching aim of this PhD project to explore and synthesize the scientific literature concerning the fundamentals of care, continuity of care as well as possible nursing interventions and/or activities targeting older people´s fundamentals of care in home- and facility-based care (PI). A second aim was to explore nursing practice, its modulators and decision-making processes related to the fundamentals of care targeting older people in facility-based care (PII). Lastly this thesis aimed to investigate how nurses, in non-dyadic pairs, described their practice per se and, in relation to older people’s fundamentals of care (PIII) as well as to explore dementia and geriatric care nurses’ perception of their professional identity (PIV).
Collaboration
This PhD project is part of a collaboration between Lovisenberg Diaconal University College in Norway and Karlstad University in Sweden as well as the research group Continuity and Quality of Care in Nursing (CARE) at Lovisenberg Diaconal University College. For more information see: https://ldh.no/forskning/forskningsgrupper/continuity-for-quality-of-care-and-health
Related info
As part of my PhD studies, I am a student member at the European Academy of Nursing Science (EANS), and I have been so fortunate to be able to participate in the EANS summer school. I completed the summer-school program in Torino, Italy 2024. See: https://www.eansnursing.eu/page/summer-school-program
Selected publications
Nordaunet, O. M., Gjevjon, E. R., Olsson, C., Aagaard, H., & Borglin, G. (2023). Fundamental nursing care focusing on older people’s needs and continuity of long-term care: a scoping review protocol. BMJ Open, 13(3), e069798. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2022-069798
Nordaunet, O. M., Gjevjon, E. R., Olsson, C., Aagaard, H., & Borglin, G. (2024). What about the fundamentals of nursing—its interventions and its continuity among older people in need of home- or facility-based care: a scoping review. BMC Nursing, 23(1), 59. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-023-01675-1
UNDER PEER REVIEW
Nordaunet, O. M., Gjevjon, E. R., Olsson, C., Aagaard, H., & Borglin, G. (2025). Nursing practice, its contextual modulators and the clinical decision-making process targeting older people’s fundamentals of care in facility-based care: An explorative design (tentative title). International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
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CONTACT INFO
Ole Martin Nordaunet, RN, M.Sc., PhD-student
Email: ole.martin.nordaunet@ldh.no
Phone: +47 99731370
ORCiD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6061-0033
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ole-Nordaunet