Nursing means helping and supporting a person and their family in their daily life with a focus on health. It is an independent field of knowledge for which the nurse is responsible. Working with health involves preventing and improving health, as well as restoring and maintaining it.
The key concepts of nursing science are people, health, environment and nursing actions. The scientific subject of nursing aims to make care better, safer and equal for individual patients and groups of patients as well as for their relatives.
Nursing research can advantageously be conducted in collaboration with other fields of knowledge such as medicine, health sciences or psychology. The research concerns people of all ages and is based on a holistic view of the human being. This means that the human being is seen as a whole with physical, mental, social and existential dimensions that all affect each other. Research at the Department of Nursing is also ongoing in other important areas.
To ensure quality in the subject of nursing and cutting-edge research, we have chosen or established the core competencies as a framework for research and education. The core competences are based on previous international research that has compiled the competences that all healthcare professionals should have to ensure quality. The core competencies are person-centered care, safe care, informatics, team collaboration, evidence-based care and improvement skills. These core competences have then been grouped into the following research areas:
Research in the field of nursing takes place at the Department of Health Sciences.
The project is based on a person-centered lifestyle program in group for persons with mental illness with the basic components: interpersonal relationships, health education and cognitive support f...
In home settings, distinctive care encounters occur between older persons and nurses, impacting older persons’ well-being and the nurses’ work environment. Challenges in this interaction shape care...
Children and Youth Center (BUE) in Västernorrland started in February 2022 and the aim is to meet children and young people at an early stage via digital care meetings to prevent and counter the...
The overall aim of the project is to use the Magnet Model as a starting point to develop methodologies and working methods to increase the leaders' abilities to create a sustainable quality culture...
We want to try to understand how registred nurses in municipal health care perceive their new role and profession in relation to digitalization and to the use of welfare technology in daily nursing...
How do home care employees act when they meet older users with suspected high consumption of alcohol? Involved municipalities and MIUN create a research-based, effective, and working model to provi...
The purpose of the follow-up research of the pilot project is to evaluate the citizen, relatives' experience of safety, participation, confidence in self-being, health and activity before/after...
The purpose of the research of team collaboration during homecoming from hospital care to homecare is to evaluate the person and their relatives' experience of safety, continuity and accessibility,...
The program's goal is to pave the way for a larger project, aiming to develop a strong research environment, which in connection with high-quality education can secure competence and skills in the...
The overall purpose of the project is to obtain an in-depth knowledge of nurse’s experience of encounters with people with anorexia nervosa.
The purpose of this project is to identify, describe, test, and evaluate how nursing homes and community health care can become an attractive and learning workplace that, like certified magnet...
Children and young people with intellectual disabilities are a vulnerable group and do not have the same preconditions for learning as other children. This can lead to physical, mental, social...
In order to reduce problem-creating behaviors in the classroom and at school, increase academic results and create favorable conditions for study peace, a common basic view is needed among the staf...
The program that is used in this project has been designed based on the studies of two dissertations. This has provided a person-centered lifestyle program in group for persons with mental illness...
Through innovation, economic calculations and service design, the project aims to investigate, describe and follow further development of the team’s working methods at nursing homes for elderly...
The page was updated 2/7/2024
