Work areas
• Associate professor for the second year of the Master’s in Health and Social Sciences, including acting as a lecturer and supervisor and being responsible for the workshop component of the course
• Associate professor at the PhD in Health and Social Sciences: Professional Practice, Conditions, and Development
• Associate professor for the PhD course “Deepening in qualitative research methods”
• Associate professor for the Bachelor of Nursing, with an emphasis on pediatric nursing, supervision, and examination of bachelor theses (concluded 2022)
• Leader of the research group “Interaction with vulnerable groups from a phenomenological perspective”
Subject areas
• Nursing, various topics
• Pediatric nursing
• Historical and contemporary perspectives on parents and children in hospital
• Foucault’s perspective
• Phenomenology
• Qualitative methodology
• Ethics
Background
1977: Registered nurse, National Association and Møre og Romsdal nursing school, Molde
1980: Exam philosophicum, University of Bergen
1981: Psychology, first year, University of Bergen
2000: Nursing science, first year, University of Bergen
1992: Practical pedagogical seminar, Volda University College
1993: Special education, Norwegian distance education
1998: Cand. San. Master’s in Health Sciences, University of Bergen
2004: To be a researcher to participate. Conversation and knowledge acquisition through qualitative methods, Norwegian School of Agriculture, (Norges Landbruksskole), Ås
2006: Research course, sensibility, and knowledge. “Philosophy of the health sciences and scientific theory”, Oslo University College
2006: Course in theory of science: UVIT800, University of Oslo
2008: Basic course in medicine and health research, University of Bergen
2014: Dr. Philos. University in Bergen. Associate Professor.
2016: Deepening in quantitative research methods and mixed methods, Molde University College
2023: The 5th WNGER II Doctoral Supervision Seminar, University of Bergen
2023: WNGERII PhD course: Qualitative metasynthesis for PhD candidates and PhD supervisors, University of Bergen
Research and development work
Master’s degree, 1998
Master’s thesis: Children in hospital. A phenomenological study of the mothers’ experiences of being admitted to hospital together with their children.
PhD, 2014
PhD thesis: Inclusion and exclusion of parents in the care of hospitalized children. The analyses were both historical and contemporary and based on Norwegian nursing textbooks, pictures, literature, and other documents from the period 1877–2013, and interviews and observations with parents and nurses were conducted at a children’s ward in 2007.
Responsible for presentations in a parallel session at The International Human Research Conference - IHSRC 2009 at Molde University College.
Member of the scientific committee for The International Human Research Conference IHSRC-2019 at Molde University College and responsible for presentations in a parallel session during the conference.
Research group membership:
• Leader of the research group “Interaction with vulnerable groups from a phenomenological perspective”
• Affiliated with the Health Professional Scandinavian Phenomenological Network
• Collaboration with the corresponding phenomenological research group at the University of Bergen
• Part of the praxeological environment at the University of Bergen, doing research using Bourdieu and Foucault perspectives.
• Nursing; Research and Professional Development
• Children, childhood, and everyday life
Completed research projects:
• Inclusion and exclusion of parents in the care of hospitalized children in a historical and contemporary context (concluded)
• Children admitted to hospital - Collaboration between nurse and parents (concluded)
• Children with asthma (concluded)
• Students’ experiences with “Project children” as a pedagogical teaching program in pediatric nursing, Bachelor's degree in Nursing (concluded)
• Vulnerability in the face of illness (concluded)
• Nursing students’ benefits from studying abroad (concluded)
Ongoing research projects:
• Students’ experiences with pediatric nursing, Bachelor’s in Nursing
• Being hospitalized as a child without parents
• National emphasis on children’s nursing in nursing education
• Early detection of worsening clinical conditions at home
• Healthcare personnel’s experiences with incident analysis as a quality preparatory method for learning after serious unwanted incidents. A qualitative exploratory evaluation study
Supervision projects:
- Early detection of worsening clinical conditions at home (PhD project)
- Healthcare personnel’s experiences with incident analysis as a quality preparatory method for learning after serious unwanted incidents. An exploratory evaluation study (PhD project)
- Doctors’ interactions with nurses when nurses report high NEWS in patients in hospital wards (concluded)
- When the patient has children (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Nurse anesthetists’ experiences using the checklist for safe surgery (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Experiences nurses have with sexual attention from patients in nursing homes (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Intensive care nurses’ experiences with the use of sevoflurane and isoflurane administered via AnaConDa as inhalation-sedation for ventilator patients in the intensive care unit (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Relatives in case of death at home – Living with the responsibility (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Meetings of child welfare staff with children aged 0–3 years who are vulnerable to violence and abuse (master project) (concluded)
- Educators’ experiences with the psychosocial environment in kindergarten for children with challenging behavior (Master’s project) (concluded)
- A qualitative study on encounters between healthcare personnel and patients with severe pain in everyday life (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Teachers’ experiences with multilingual pupils in ordinary classes in primary school (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Preliminary interviews with patients with dementia in nursing homes – A phenomenological study (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Women (aged 50+) with alcohol use disorder and psychological problems (Rop disorder) – A qualitative study (Master’s project) (concluded)
- Intensive care nurses’ experiences with ending life-prolonging patient care (Master’s project)
- Intensive care nurses’ experience of coping when receiving acutely critically ill patients in the intensive care unit (Master’s project)
Scientific presentations:
2009
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Molde, Norway: Hospitalized children - Collaboration between parents and nurse. 28th International Human Science Research Conference
2010
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Seattle, USA: Panel presentation: Vulnerable groups’ experiences as basis for health care interactions.
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Seattle, USA: Hospitalized children – How do parents and nurses experience their collaboration?
2017
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Jelenia Gora, Poland: Vulnerability as otherness in chronic illness.
2018
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA: Living with allergy and asthma: A qualitative study of children, aged 8–12 years, and their experiences of life.
2019
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Molde, Norway: Challenging procedure situations in hospitals – Caring between encouraging the child’s receptiveness and coercing the child.
2022
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC. New York, USA: International clinical placement as nursing students in a pediatric ward - Registered nurses’ experiences.
• The Fjord conferences: Nursing benefits from clinical studies as a nursing student in a children’s ward in a low-income country.
2023
• International Human Science Research Conference, IHSRC, Tokyo, Japan: The significance for adult life - When children have been hospitalized without their parents.
Research groups
• Children, childhood, and everyday life
• Interaction with vulnerable groups from a phenomenological perspective
• Nursing; Research and professional development