Nursing Science

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:

Person-centered care
Safe evidence-based care and improvement skills
Informatics and team collaboration

Research in the field of nursing takes place at the Department of Health Sciences.

Ongoing Research Projects

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Children and Youth Center in Västernorrland

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...

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Students' health and learning in compulsory school for pupils with intellectual disabilities and student health teams

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...

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Striving for magnet standard in nursing homes – a pilot project

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...

A person-centered method for lifestyle changes in persons with mental illness

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...

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Future Welfare: Healthcare and School

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...

Enhanced support for older people with suspected or confirmed risk or substance abuse. Training and collaboration initiative for home care services

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...