Field of work
Teaching and supervision at master's and PhD levels in clinical nursing, Department of Health and Care Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, campus Bergen.
Study coordinator for Master of Science in Nursing, Clinical Specialties (Gastro, Infection & Infection Control, Pulmonary, Neurology, Urological, Stoma & Incontinence, Nursing and Clinical Forensic Medicine for Nurses)
PhD from UiB 2015, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Clinical Medicine 1, with the thesis "Health- related Quality of Life, Distress and Psycholsocial Factors in Head and Neck and Renal Cancer Patients".
HVL, IHO's representative in the National Research Network for Quality in Clinical Practice
Member of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)'s expert panel for the preparation of a diagnosis-specific quality of life questionnaire for kidney cancer patients.
Member of the research network LIVSFORSK
Member and deputy chair of the research group Cancer and Quality of Life
Member of the WestPaed research group Children's and Adolescent Clinic, Helse Bergen
Member of the European Association of Urological Nurses (EAUN) Scientific Comittee
The main interest in my research is the patient perspective in acute, critical and chronic illness, using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Teaches
- Nursing care for acute, critical and chronically ill somatic patients
- Quantitative method
- Qualitative method
- Quality of life
- Clinical practice
- Evidence-based practice
- PROM/PREM
- Academic writing
Researching
- Korlei's cancer, treatment, symptoms and psychosocial factors affect quality of life
- Patient-reported data (PROMS)
- Cancer patients
- Advanced Home Hospital for Children
- Clinical Practice for Nursing Students in a Somatic Hospital
- Quality of life
- Mastery
- Kidney cancer
- Head and throat cancer
- Elderly cancer patients over 80 years of age
- Fear of COVID-19 in nursing students
Research groups
- Cancer and Quality of Life
- LIVSFORSK
- West Paed, Bergen Regional Health Authority
- National Research Group for Quality in Clinical Practice
- MSS530, Patient Safety, Quality Improvement and Evidence Based Practice , Fall 2024
- MSS590, Master's Thesis, Fall 2024
- MSS590, Master's Thesis, Spring 2025
- MSU520, Clinical Governance and Immersing in Advanced Urotherapy , Fall 2024, subject responsible
- SPE590, Master’s Thesis, Fall 2024
- SPE590, Master’s Thesis, Spring 2025
- SYKDB200, Nursing within Acute, Chronical and Critical Disease, Fall 2024
Publications
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Er universitetspedagogiske kurs relevante? Erfaringer fra et kurs om diskusjon som læringsaktivitet
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Women’s experiences with postpartum urinary retention – a qualitative study
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Parents’ experiences of sleep testing in children under the auspices of hospital at home
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Health-related Quality of Life Assessment in Renal Cell Cancer: A Scoping Review
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Quality of life and symptoms in cancer patients more than 80 years of age