Josefin BSN, PhD, RN

Josefin has 22 years experience as a BSN, PhD, RN and specializes in Mental health, organization and leadership.

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1. Myths About Midwifery

   Josefin replied to tnbutterfly - Mary's topic in CNM

   Talking about the international educational level of midwifes, in Sweden midwifery is a nursing speciality on one year masters level. A BSN is required to enter midwifery training, and I believe that basically the same goes for most Scandinavian coun...

2. The autonomy of nurses in several countries

   Josefin replied to marcosnetrj's topic in International

   Here in Sweden we have nurse anesthetists and from what I know, they are rather independent in their work. Since I´m in a completely different area myself I´m not sure about their exact duties, but they do for example intubations. Normally in Sweden ...

3. Mental Healthcare

   Josefin replied to Luckyphin's topic in International

   Oh, I hope it will turn out well, happy that I could help! /Josefin

4. Mental Healthcare

   Josefin replied to Luckyphin's topic in International

   Addition to above: Now after posting this it struck me that the term custodial mental healthcare might not be correct. To explain, it means involuntary mental healthcare.

5. Mental Healthcare

   Josefin replied to Luckyphin's topic in International

   Hi, I´m glad to try to answer your questions; hope you can use the answers. If you have more questions, please don´t hesitate to contact me. This will be a long reply, if you use this I would very much like to see the final result (only if you find i...

6. Scandinavian Nurses

   Josefin replied to FinNurse's topic in Immigration

   I believe that there might be some diffrences between the scandinavian countries as well. I have never worked outside Sweden myself, but from what I have heard other colleuges with experience say are RN nursing work generally more advanced and comes ...

7. Psych Nurse ="not a REAL nurse"?

   Josefin replied to Meerkat's topic in General Nursing

   I work at a community mental health unit and feel that I recieve a lot more respect for the job I do, compared to other nurses I know who are working in other "traditional" areas. It might be a bit different since I work in Sweden, but my job as a "p...

8. How many semesters is your nursing program

   Josefin replied to Love-A-Nurse's topic in General Students

   My was 6 semesters plus 2 or 3 for specialisation after working in the field for one year. All swedish nursingprogrammes are 6 semesters, to become a LPN you have to go 2 semesters.

9. first day in clinicals

   Josefin replied to paula77720's topic in General Students

   Brrrrr... I just can´t stand poop or mucous... And the smell from eldery men´s urine... URK

10. How much community clinical does your school offer??

    Josefin replied to peaceful2100's topic in General Students

    We have 6 weeks of about 50 at communal care. Pretty OK I think, I would´nt want to spend more time than necessary there...

11. A Question for May 2002 Graduates...

    Josefin replied to tattoochick's topic in General Students

    I have been told that one year of experience is requierd to work nights at all here... So dayshifts are the only thing I have been offered! I found "my" job at psych, so I´m happy!

12. *Got myself a job-happy*

    Josefin replied to Josefin's topic in General Students

    I´m not sure what the situation is like in the US, but here in Sweden the hospitals are SCREAMING for RN´s and especially BSN´s with specialist competence. Agencies are growing constantly, and due to the lack of physicans too nurses are given more an...

13. How long does it take to get lab results

    Josefin replied to kewlnurse's topic in General Nursing

    Well. It depends, if the tests are marked with "acute" it takes about 20 mins. Otherwise about 40 mins- 2 hours depending on what time of day they are sent.

14. Worried

    Josefin replied to zacarias's topic in General Students

    Hey Zacarias... I totally understand how you feel. I bet that most of nursingstudents/med.students feels exactly the same from time to time! I went on my last med rotation before christmas, and had a discussion about this with my supervisor. I compla...

15. *Got myself a job-happy*

    Josefin replied to Josefin's topic in General Students

    It is a "general" locked psych unit. General menas that the unit deals with depressions, bipolar diseases, borderline and sucidal patients. (No schitz-patients) Patients are 18-60, so there are no kids and no elderly patients. It is going to be so in...