Karin Blomberg
Karin Blomberg Position: Professor School/office: Faculty of Medicine and HealthEmail: a2FyaW4uYmxvbWJlcmc7b3J1LnNl
Phone: +46 19 301270
Room: E3109, X5507
About Karin Blomberg
Karin Blomberg is professor of Nursing Science at Örebro University and leader for the research group Research in Pallative care.
Research
Karin carries out research on palliative care with focus on healthcare in which relationships are created, promoting dignity, trust and participation, regardless of care context or patient group.
She conducts intervention studies in which various methods, approaches and models are developed, tested and evaluated in clinical practice within both hospital-based nursing care and municipal healthcare services. Many of the studies focus on central concepts in nursing science such as dignity, compassion, trust and touch.
Karin’s research also focuses on professional development and learning within and between professions – crucial for sustainable relationship-generating healthcare services.
Karin also conducts studies on interdisciplinary collaborations concerning perceptions of the risk of illness, as well as on primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer. Other research areas include methodology development, such as development and psychometric testing of instruments and various data collection methods.
Karin has published a substantial array of scientific articles and teaching materials, and has been a presenter at national and international conferences. She has been engaged as a scientific expert in the development of national guidelines and nursing care programmes. She has also been appointed as a reviewer for international research applications and has served as an external examiner and as a member of examining committees for many national and international dissertation defences.
Teaching
Karin has extensive experience teaching both nursing students and medical students in fields such as palliative care, practical skills and scientific method at both the basic and advanced level, as well as teaching within postgraduate education and courses aimed at associate professors. She supervises several doctoral students as both principal supervisor and co-supervisor. Karin also has experience supervising/mentoring postdocs, research associates and junior researchers. Karins has also served as examiner for UKÄ for example for the evaluation of all nursing programmes in Sweden.
Assignments
- Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Örebro University.
- Members of the scientific review panel of Health care and Health care organisation, FORTE - Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare.
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
- Ambulance transport services for older people - Interview study with healthcare professionals in general palliative municipality care
- To describe relatives? experiences of the meeting with prehospital healthcare professionals in the event of death at home concerning people with palliative care needs
- Creating Learning Environments for Compassionate Care
- 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
- Ethics and pandemic - nurses willingness and conditions to work in a crises situation
- A theoretical perspective to enhance the theory of co-creation in palliative care with dignity
- Clinical group supervision in nursing - a model for strengthening newly graduated nurses? professional role and professional development
- Skin and wound care at end-of-life: A systematic review
- Living with narcolepsy as a result of vaccination against the swine-flu - quality-of-life and the need of support among children and adolescents and their families
- Learning of practical skills
- Clinical learning in the OR: from a student nurse anesthetists' and supervisors' perspective
- Narcolepsy after vaccination against the swine-flu - trust in health care and the role of social media
- National survey of relatives' experiences during specialized palliative care: A palliative registry study
- Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine (Pacem)
- PRICOV-19 - Quality of care and patient safety in primary care practices in times of a pandemic
- REALE: The relation between preparations, experiences and health when working in disasters
- Trust and compliance in the Swedish child vaccination programme with focus on HPV-vaccination
- Dignity conserving care for older persons with palliative care needs
- Translation and cultural adaption of the Quality Of Life In Chronic Child's Disease Questionnaire (QLCCDQ)for a Swedish context
Completed projects
- Physical contact in professional education and training
- Skills training and simulation as an educational tool to develop professional knowledge
- Dietary habits and physical activity for health and wellbeing
- Natural course, quality of life, heredity and mortality among children and adolescents who debuted with seizures 50 years ago, in Uppsala county
- Frames for the clinical education in the Nursing program
- Evaluation of method for patient education on a nurse-led heart failure clinic