We have found four themes in our nursing bachelor project of which we can't find much litterature about two:

One is DEPENDENCY

- Patients need the surveillance because they cant always expres their needs for care and to avoid accidential falls.

- When a patient gets transferred from the specialized unit they have become too used to a nurse having a constant eye on them. This is because the nurses on the specialized unit is affraid to let the patient down and cause an accident, to test how the patient would actually manage with the ressources available at the recieving care unit. This causes accidents occure more often after transfer. 

- And family members gets worried and "can't sleep at night" when the patient is no longer under surveillance.

The other is SAFETY - TWO SIDES OF A COIN

- Surveillance creates a safer work environment because the nurse can ask her colleagues to keep an eye on her on a monitor, if shes dealing with a patient with tendensy to agression.

- The nurse feel better when they don't have to "leave the patient alone" to attend to other thing, because they can see them on a tablet. This feeling is sometimes based on a lie, because the image can lag for minutes and knowing this is also a stressor for the nurse.

Any suggestions; articles, keywords or just a comment with thoughts would be much appriciated.

Thank you!

- Nadia and Mikkel