In January 2023, I defended my doctoral thesis at the University of Borås in the field of health care science. I am a specialist nurse in prehospital emergency care and have worked in the ambulance services, general medicine, and neurology.

My dissertation focuses on the onset of sepsis from the perspectives of patients and their relatives, examining the progression of the disease and documented symptoms, vital signs, and blood tests identified in prehsopital emergency care. It also explores how ambulance personnel suspect, assess, and identify sepsis. Dissertation link: https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1705847/FULLTEXT01.pdf I have still a interest in research on the onset and early identification of sepsis. 

However, after my PhD defense, my research interest has shifted towards the work environment and professional quality of life of healthcare professionals. I am now primarily interested in understanding how factors such as compassion fatigue, stress, support, and lifestyle habits affect healthcare professionals’ well-being, their ability to perform their work, and their willingness to remain in the profession.

An ongoing research project focuses on healthcare professionals working in intensive care units. The project examines their professional quality of life, lifestyle habits, and the strategies they use to manage and prevent compassion fatigue. A central part of the project is to evaluate an intervention in the form of person-centered health conversations and its potential to promote professional quality of life and sustainable lifestyle habits. The overall aim is to contribute to an improved work environment and thereby enhance both staff well-being and patients’ experiences of care.

I am also conducting research on newly graduated nurses’ development towards professional expertise. This project investigates the content and conditions of the transition from education to working life, with a focus on how nurses develop professional expertise and which factors support or hinder this process.

I am program director of the Bachelor of Science in Nursing program. In addition, I teach in the Nursing program and the Master's program in Health Sciences. My teaching focuses on scientific theory and methodology (qualitative and quantitative), emergency care, simulation and supervision of bachelor's and master's theses. My research on sepsis also contributes to my teaching in this area.

During my time as a doctoral student, I conducted 20% of my teaching at the University of Borås. I mainly taught in the nursing program and the specialist nursing program in prehospital emergency care. My teaching role focused on scientific theory and methodology, clinical examinations, case seminars on assessment in prehospital emergency care, clinical placements, workplace-based training and supervision of bachelor's and master's theses.