PhD Candidate

Elsa-Christine Irgens

Field of work

She is appointed by the Department for Masters in Clinical Nursing in a PhD scholarship position. She has prior work experience in the emergency department and the Thoracic surgical intensive care and recovery department at Haukeland University Hospital. Additionally. She holds a 25% position as an adviser at the national competence centre Verdighetsenteret.

She is a qualified nurse since 2002, and has been working as an intensive care nurse since 2012. She also completed her master's in intensive care nursing in 2019.h

Courses taught

Postoperative intensive care for thoracic patients.

Emergency medical and palliative care for the elderly

Research areas

Patients with COVID-19 in the ICU - a follow-up study of mental and physical health.