Elisabeth Dahlborg

A Theoretical Framework for Emancipatory Nursing With a Focus on Environment and Persons' Own and Shared Lifeworld

By giving a brief overview of the metaconcepts in nursing, with a focus on environment, we sketch a theoretical framework for an emancipatory...

Analysis of discourses in a health care context

Abstract To develop nursing as a critical normative science (Kirkevold, 2009), a description of the various care areas and different health phenome...

Att analysera berättelser (narrativer)

Att analysera diskurser

Att bli sjuksköterska : en introduktion till yrke och ämne

Att bli sjuksköterska : en introduktion till yrke och ämne

Att bli transplanterad : En studie av patientens upplevelse

Background: Transplantation is a well established form of treatment for terminal organs failure. Most patients that undergo this treatment havebeen...

Changing essay writing in undergraduate nursing education through action research: a Swedish example

This article describes the development of literature-based models for bachelor degree essays in Swedish undergraduate nursing education. Students'...

Competing discourses in palliative care.

BACKGROUND: Palliative care focuses on early identification as well as prevention and alleviation of suffering. Previous studies have established...

Constructing the Norm-critical awareness scale : A scale for use in educational contexts promoting awareness of prejudice, discrimination, and marginalisation

Purpose: Healthcare professionals' conscious or unconscious norms, values and attitudes have been identified as partial explanations of healthcare...

Diabetes empowerment related to Pender's Health Promotion Model : A meta-synthesis

Diabetes self-management is a challenge for both clients and health-care professionals. Empowerment plays a vital role in helping clients to achiev...

Discourses with potential to disrupt traditional nursing education : Nursing teachers’ talk about norm-critical competence

This paper describes the discourses underlying nursing teachers’ talk about their own norm-critical competence. Norm criticism is an approach that...

Don't ask don't tell : Battered Women living in Sweden encounter with healthcare personnel and their experience of the care given

In recent years there has been increased intimate partner violence (IPV) toward women. Research on the care provided to victims of IPV is limited....

Expert midwives’ experiences of security in their professional practice : I’m the captain of a jet

Obstetric units have become larger, with patients being knowledgeable and demanding. Also, established team works at maternity wards require that...

Fathers' encounter of support from paediatric diabetes teams : the tension between general recommendations and personal experience

The purpose of this grounded theory study was to explore and discuss how fathers involved in caring for a child with type 1 diabetes experienced...

Fathers of Children With Type 1 Diabetes : Perceptions of a Father's Involvement From a Health Promotion Perspective

This study describes how fathers of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes understand their involvement in their child's daily life from a health...

From work integrated learning to learning integrated work : A pedagogical model to develop praxis in nursing education

The move from student to nurse has been described as difficult for newly registered nurses. Newly registered nurses’ feelings of lacking competence...

Gränshinder : en kvalitativ och kvantitativ studie av samverkandesjukvård

The project "Health care interaction" among different care providers was introduced as a trial activity in the municipalities of Strömstad and Tanu...

Health care systems in transition: Equality, access and health literacy in three Scandinavian welfare states. : “The Emperor’s new clothes”: discourse analysis on how the patient is constructed in the new Swedish Patient Act

The Swedish welfare debate increasingly focuses on market liberal notions and its healthcare perspective aims for more patient-centered care. This...

I backspegeln : en historisk återblick

If dad comes, we are happy - if mom fails to appear, we become desperate : A Grounded Theory study of Swedish diabetes teams perecption of fathers’ involvement in their child's everyday life

Background: Since parental involvement is essential to the outcome of diabetes type 1 treatment in childhood and high paternal engagement in everyd...

‘It’s about me’ – a narrative analysis of female smokers with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their relationship to smoking

Background Chronic obstructive lung disease is a disease that is common among the smoking population. In Sweden, more women than men are smokers. T...

Jämlik vård : normmedvetna perspektiv

Kan en felles læringsarena gi sykepleiestudenter økt klinisk kompetanse?

s a common learning arena a "Room of Possibility” that gives nursing students increased clinical competence? The aim of the study was to find out...

Kunskap, kunskapsanvändning och kunskapsutveckling

Lack of individualized perspective : A qualitative study of diabetes care for immigrants in Sweden

This study describes the care provided by a diabetes nurse specialist, and the care needs expressed by people with type 2 diabetes mellitus and an...

Living in liminality-being simultaneously visible and invisible : caregivers' narratives of palliative care.

Palliative care is an integral part of care and takes place in many settings-including the home, special accommodations, and hospitals. However,...

Norm-Critical Potential in Undergraduate Nursing Education Curricula : A Document Analysis

The documents and literature that regulate nursing education are based on certain values and knowledge, and the underlying power in the curriculum...

Normer som hinder för jämlik och rättighetsbaserad vård

Nursing teachers’ reflections on their own norm-critical competence

Background: Nursing education in Sweden generally lacks norm-critical perspectives, even though this could help unveil normative judgements of...

Parents' discursive resources : Analysis of discourses in Swedish, Danish and Norwegian health care guidelines for children with diabetes type 1

The incidence of diabetes type 1 in children, the most common metabolic disorder in childhood, increases worldwide, with highest incidence in...

Perpetuating ‘New Public Management’ at the expense of nurses’ patient education : a discourse analysis

This study aimed to explore the conditions for nurses’ daily patient education work by focusing on managers’ way of speaking about the patient...

Praxis and Work Integrated Learning as Pedagogical Approach in Nursing Education

The move from student to nurse has been described as difficult and tough for new nurses. New nurses' feeling of lacking competence can reduce the...

Praxis i vårdvetenskap

Predominant discourses in Swedish nursing

The aim of this study was to elucidate the predominant discourse in the field of Swedish nursing in 2000, 25 years after nursing was introduced as ...

Preoperative Information Provided to Swedish and Immigrant Patients Before Total Hip Replacement

  Background: Total hip replacement is an operation that usually leads to pain  relief and improved health related quality of life (HRQoL). Previou...

Prerequisites for person-centered care : As described by community care nurses

The aim of this study was to describe nurses’ experiences of person-centered care within an integrated care chain. Method: The study included four...

Sjuksköterskan, vem är det?

Swedish pediatric diabetes teams' perception of fathers' involvement : A Grounded Theory study

The purpose of this study was to analyze how Swedish pediatric diabetes teams perceived and discussed fathers' involvement in the care of their chi...

"The Emperor's new clothes" : discourse analysis on how the patient is constructed in the new Swedish Patient Act.

The Swedish welfare debate increasingly focuses on market liberal notions and its healthcare perspective aims for more patient-centered care. This...

The importance of awareness of nursing students' denotative images of nursing

The influence of gender in academia: a case study of a university college in Sweden

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to describe senior lecturers' experiences of and reflections on the influence of gender on their work and career...

Utveckling av ett instrument som kan mäta normkritisk medvetenhet

Bakgrund. Normkritisk kompetens är en förutsättning för att kunna ifrågasätta rådande, begränsande normer som skapar ojämlikhet. Att kunna mäta...

Vithetsnormer : normer som producerar "hudfärgade" plåster

Vårdandets normer : minskat handlingsutrymmer för vårdare och patient

Work Integrated Learning and Learning Integrated Work : An Approach to Unite Theory and Practice to Praxis

The difference between the professional competence conveyed during education and the competence demanded in working life is substantial and needs t...

Work-Integrated Learning

Praxis is a concept that is both vague and overused in nursing science. Hence, a more stringent use of the concept praxis could help clarify the...

Young Women With Anorexia Nervosa

The aim of this study was to describe how young women living with self-identified anorexia narrate about their lives by blogging. Thirteen Swedish...