Annika Söderman
Position: Associate Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: annika.soderman@oru.se
Phone: +46 19 303038
Room: P2235
Research subject
About Annika Söderman
Annika Söderman is a registrated nurse (2002) and district nurse (2008), with previous experiences of working with palliative care and at a health care center. In year 2012, she began teaching as a junior lecturer at the nursing school at Örebro University, in Örebro, Sweden. In September 2021 she defended her Doctoral Thesis at the Department of Health Care Sciences. Annikas research was part of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme Successful Ageing, where her focus was on evaluating the Swedish version of the Dignity Care Intervention (DCI-SWE) in municipal, palliative care, for older people with palliative care needs. Annika is involved in two research groups focusing on palliative care (DCI-SWE and PACEM), and is currently a part of the research environment Care about Caring at Örebro University. Annika's pedagogical focus is primarily on palliative care/geriatrics as well as qualitative method, both at undergraduate and advanced level.
Research projects
Active projects
- Emergency care and transport to emergency hospitals by dying patients in the home; a necessity or an unnecessary suffering
- Emergency interventions and transport to hospitals of patients receiving palliative care at home or in nursing homes
- To describe relatives? experiences of the meeting with prehospital healthcare professionals in the event of death at home concerning people with palliative care needs
- The pendulum words of Qvarnström and dying in relation to awareness, fear and time; a theoretical analysis.
- The caring process of co-creation in palliative care; A Qualitative Meta Synthesis
- A theoretical perspective to enhance the theory of co-creation in palliative care with dignity
- Dignity conserving care for older persons with palliative care needs
Research groups
Publications
Articles in journals |
Articles, reviews/surveys |
Books |
Collections (editor) |
Conference papers |
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |
Manuscripts |
Articles in journals
- Söderman, A. , Hälleberg Nyman, M. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Johnston, B. & Blomberg, K. (2023). Grasping a new approach to older persons' dignity: A process evaluation of the Swedish Dignity Care Intervention in municipal palliative care. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences.
- Söderman, A. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Hälleberg Nyman, M. & Blomberg, K. (2023). Valuing the individual: evaluating the Dignity Care Intervention. Nursing Ethics, 30 (1), 86-105.
- Söderman, A. (2022). Ett nytt samtalsstöd med evidensbaserade vårdhandlingar för värdighetsbevarande vård av äldre personer. Cancervården (1), 25-26.
- Söderman, A. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Östlund, U. & Blomberg, K. (2021). Community nurses' experiences of the Swedish Dignity Care Intervention for older persons with palliative care needs: A qualitative feasibility study in municipal home health care. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 16 (4).
- Söderman, A. (2020). Att bevara äldre personers värdighet inom allmän palliativ vård. Palliativ vård. Tidskriften för palliativ vård i Sverige (1/2), 18-19.
- Östlund, U. , Blomberg, K. , Söderman, A. & Werkander Harstäde, C. (2019). How to conserve dignity in palliative care: suggestions from older patients, significant others, and healthcare professionals in Swedish municipal care. BMC Palliative Care, 18 (1).
- Blomberg, K. , Lindqvist, O. , Harstäde, C. W. , Söderman, A. & Östlund, U. (2019). Translating the Patient Dignity Inventory. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 25 (7), 334-343.
- Söderman, A. & Jackson, K. (2011). Barn som far illa i sin hemmiljö: BVC-sjuksköterskors upplevelser av att möta och hjälpa barnen.. Vård i Norden, 31 (4), 38-42.
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Söderman, A. , Östlund, U. , Werkander Harstäde, C. & Blomberg, K. (2020). Dignity-conserving care for persons with palliative care needs - identifying outcomes studied in research: An integrative review. Palliative & Supportive Care, 18 (6), 722-740.
Books
- Alexopoulou, S. , Fart, F. , Jonsson, A. , Karni, L. , Kenalemang, L. M. , Krishna, S. , Lindblad, K. , Loutfi, A. & et al. Kristoffersson, E. (ed.) & Nilsson, K. (ed.) (2018). Successful ageing in an interdisciplinary context: popular science presentations. Örebro: Örebro University.
Collections (editor)
- Alm, F. , Fernberg, U. , Johansson, I. , Kumawat, A. K. , Marques, T. M. & Söderman, A. Larsson, C. (ed.) (2023). Örebro University’s Nobel Day Festivities: Book of abstracts, 2023 (1ed.). Örebro: Örebro universitet.
Conference papers
- Söderman, A. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Östlund, U. & Blomberg, K. (2020). DCI-SWE : ett arbetssätt för att bevara äldre personers värdighet inom allmän palliativ vård. Paper presented at 6:e Nationella konferensen i palliativ vård, Östersund, Mars 11-12, 2020.
- Söderman, A. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Östlund, U. & Blomberg, K. (2020). DCI-SWE : ett arbetssätt för att bevara äldre personers värdighet inom allmän palliativ vård. Paper presented at 6:e Nationella konferensen i palliativ vård, Östersund, Sverige, Mars 11-12, 2020.
- Söderman, A. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Östlund, U. & Blomberg, K. (2020). The Swedish dignity care intervention for older persons with palliative care needs in home care: experiences from nurses. In: Abstracts from the 11th EAPC World Research Congress Online, 7th – 9th October 2020. Paper presented at The 11th EAPC World Research Congress Online, October 7-9, 2020. Sage Publications.
- Söderman, A. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Hälleberg Nyman, M. , Östlund, U. & Blomberg, K. (2019). Home care nurses’ experiences of the Swedish Dignity Care Intervention (DCI-SWE). Paper presented at Nobel Day Festivities, Örebro, Sweden, December 9, 2019. Örebro University.
- Söderman, A. , Östlund, U. , Werkander Harstäde, C. & Blomberg, K. (2018). En intervention för att bevara sköra äldre personers värdighet: utveckling och anpassning till en svensk kontext . In: Forskningen och utvecklingens dag, 2018. Paper presented at Forskningen och utvecklingens dag, Örebro, Sweden, 12 April, 2018. Örebro:
- Söderman, A. , Östlund, U. , Werkander Harstäde, C. & Blomberg, K. (2018). Enhancing dignity in older persons in Sweden: adaptation of the Dignity Care Intervention. In: 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology. Paper presented at 24th Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Oslo, Norway, 2-4 May, 2018.
- Söderman, A. , Östlund, U. , Werkander Harstäde, C. & Blomberg, K. (2018). The adaptation of the Dignity Care Intervention to a Swedish context. In: Nordic Conference in Nursing Research - Methods and Networks for the future, 2018. Paper presented at Nordic Conference in Nursing Research - Methods and Networks for the future, Oslo, Norway, 13-15 June, 2018.
- Werkander Harstäde, C. , Blomberg, K. , Söderman, A. , Benzein, E. & Östlund, U. (2016). Anpassning av “the Dignity Care Intervention” till svenska förhållanden. Paper presented at 4:e Nationella konferensen i palliativ vård, Malmö, Sweden, 15-16 mars, 2016.
- Werkander Harstäde, C. , Blomberg, K. , Söderman, A. & Östlund, U. (2015). Adapting the Dignity Care Intervention to a Swedish Context. In: 978-0-9542022-3-1. Paper presented at 14th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care, Copenhagen, Denmark, 8-10 May, 2015.
Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries
- Söderman, A. (2021). Evaluating the Swedish Dignity Care Intervention within municipality healthcare: for older persons with palliative care needs. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro University.
Manuscripts
- Söderman, A. , Hälleberg Nyman, M. , Werkander Harstäde, C. , Johnston, B. & Blomberg, K. Maintaining older persons’ dignity : A process evaluation of the Swedish Dignity Care Intervention in municipal palliative care.