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I am docent in nursing and hold an assistant professorship. I am also the head of Unit 2 at the Division of Nursing at NVS. I became a registered nurse in 1990 and earned my PhD in 2016 from Linköping University with the dissertation "Thirst in patients with heart failure - Description of thirst dimensions and associated factors with thirst."

Education in Pedagogy and Leadership

• Higher Education Pedagogy: Basic Higher Education Pedagogy (2016); Online Networked Learning (2020); Doctoral Supervision (2020); Advanced Higher Education Pedagogy (2022–2023).
• Leadership: Leadership for Research Group Leaders (2021–2022); New as a Manager (2023–2024); Systematic Work Environment Management (2023); Organizational and Social Work Environment (2023); Future Academic Leaders - FAL (2023–2024).

My research focuses on alleviating distressing symptoms such as thirst and improving the care of patients with heart failure and patients in palliative care.

Current Research Projects

• Thirst Distress Scale - versions and further development.
• Description of thirst distress in patients with heart failure - international collaboration.
• Thirst in patients in palliative care - experiences of patients, relatives, and healthcare staff.
• Symptom management, nutrition, and physical activity for older, frail persons with heart failure - a pilot study.
• Doctoral project: Fluid intake in patients with heart failure (doctoral student Linn Höög). 
• Doctoral project: Fatigue in patients with heart failure (doctoral student Hilda Melander).

I teach in a course on current nursing/caring science at an advanced level and I co-supervise two doctoral students. I have worked as a teacher in several courses in Bachelor´s and Master´s levels. I have mainly served as course leader, teacher, and examiner in the first course of the nursing program on research methodology, the nursing profession, and nursing/caring science. I have also been program manager of the Specialist Nursing Program in Medical Care and course leader for one of the courses in the program. Additionally, I have supervised students in degree project in nursing at both Bachelor´s and Master´s levels.