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Received: 26 March 2020

Accepted: 10 January 2021

First Online: 25 January 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The Regional Ethics Committee of The North Denmark Region ruled that no formal ethics approval was required in this case (2016–000615). However, the study was still planned in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. When interacting with patients, the field worker remained in the background and either introduced herself or was introduced by the NGDs, typically very briefly as “one observing our work”. The participants were informed about their right to withdraw from further research at any time. All quotes, written materials and personal identifiable information were fully anonymised, and in this article, we identified each participant with a unique identity code. The NGDs work in various settings, and it was thus necessary to inform many employees and departments about the project. This was done through written notices in the break rooms and email correspondence to heads of departments and principal nurses. However, we are aware that it is impossible to inform everyone who the NGDs interact with about the research since the NGDs work across several departments and therefore walk across the hospital premises multiple times and interact with many collaborators on every shift. This is why the consent, anonymisation of both participants and departments, and confidentiality of all data gathered are crucial [].

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: The authors declare that no competing interests or conflict of interest had bias on the outcomes of our paper.