Maria Gradin
Position: Affiliated Researcher School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: maria.gradin@oru.se
Phone: +46 019 6025771
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About Maria Gradin
PhD, Specialist Nurse in intensive care
Assitant Head of Operations, Centre of Clinical Education, Region Örebro County
Affiliated Örebro University
Phone: +46(0)705925771
Thesis
Procedural pain reducing methods and pain assessment in newborns. Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping university 2004
Research
- Workplace-based learning
- Pain in newborn, pain assessment and painreducing methods
- Kangaroo Mother Care in newborns
Assignments
Expert in UKÄs (Swedish higher education authority) advisory group for evaluation of the quality of education leading to nursing degree 2021
Expert in Läkemedelsverkets (The Medical Products Agency) knowledge document: Behandling av barn i samband med smärtsamma procedurer i hälso- och sjukvård 2014.
Expert in Svenskbarnsmärtförening: (Swedish association on Pediatric pain) Nationella riktlinjer för prevention och behandling av smärta i nyföddhetsperioden 2002, reviderat 2003, 2009 och 2013.
Expert in SBU:s report: Sockerlösning mot smärta vid injektioner och provtagning på spädbarn 2012
Publications
Articles in journals
- Arribas, C. , Cavallaro, G. , Gonzalez, J. , Lagares, C. , Raffaeli, G. , Smits, A. , Simons, S. H. P. , Villamor, E. & et al. (2024). Global cross-sectional survey on neonatal pharmacologic sedation and analgesia practices and pain assessment tools: impact of the sociodemographic index (SDI). Pediatric Research.
- Blomqvist, Y. T. , Gradin, M. & Olsson, E. (2020). Pain Assessment and Management in Swedish Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Pain Management Nursing, 21 (4), 354-359.
- Andersen, R. D. , Munsters, J. M. A. , Vederhus, B. J. & Gradin, M. (2018). Pain assessment practices in Swedish and Norwegian neonatal care units. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 32 (3), 1074-1082.
- Oras, P. , Thernström Blomqvist, Y. , Hedberg Nyqvist, K. , Gradin, M. , Rubertsson, C. , Hellström-Westas, L. & Funkquist, E. (2016). Skin-to-skin contact is associated with earlier breastfeeding attainment in preterm infants. Acta Paediatrica, 105 (7), 783-789.
- Oras, P. , Thernström Blomqvist, Y. , Hedberg Nyqvist, K. , Gradin, M. , Rubertsson, C. , Hellström-Westas, L. & Funkquist, E. (2015). Breastfeeding Patterns in Preterm Infants Born at 28-33 Gestational Weeks. Journal of Human Lactation, 31 (3), 377-385.
- Baylis, R. , Ewald, U. , Gradin, M. , Nyqvist, K. H. , Rubertsson, C. & Blomqvist, Y. T. (2014). First-time events between parents and preterm infants are affected by the designs and routines of neonatal intensive care units. Acta Paediatrica, 103 (10), 1045-1052.
- Strand, H. , Blomqvist, Y. T. , Gradin, M. & Nyqvist, K. H. (2014). Kangaroo mother care in the neonatal intensive care unit: staff attitudes and beliefs and opportunities for parents. Acta Paediatrica, 103 (4), 373-378.
- Scherman, E. , Johansson, L. , Gradin, M. , van den Berg, J. & Eriksson, M. (2014). Procedural pain in neonates: Do nurses follow national guidelines? A survey to Swedish neonatal units. Journal of Neonatal Nursing, 10 (1), 31-36.
- Blomqvist, Y. T. , Ewald, U. , Gradin, M. , Nyqvist, K. H. & Rubertsson, C. (2013). Initiation and extent of skin-to-skin care at two Swedish neonatal intensive care units. Acta Paediatrica, 102 (1), 22-28.
- Gradin, M. & Eriksson, M. (2011). Neonatal pain assessment in Sweden: a fifteen-year follow up. Acta Paediatrica, 100 (2), 204-208.
- Eriksson, M. & Gradin, M. (2008). Pain management in Swedish neonatal units: a national survey. Acta Paediatrica, 97 (7), 870-874.
Articles, reviews/surveys
- Eriksson, M. & Gradin, M. (2014). Söta lösningar och specifikt neonatalt omhändertagande. Information från Läkemedelsverket, 25 (3), 45-47.
Chapters in books
- Axelin, A. , Eriksson, M. & Gradin, M. (2013). Smärta. In: Karin Jackson, Helena Wigert, Familjecentrerad neonatalvård (pp. 111-124). Lund: Studentlitteratur AB.
Conference papers
- Gradin, M. , Munsters, J. , Dovland, Andersen, R. & Vederhaus, B. (2017). Pain assessment practices in Swedish and Norwegian Neonatal care units. Paper presented at The 11th International Forum on Pediatric Pain, Halifax, Canada, October 12 – 15, 2017.
- Olsson, E. , Baños, J. , Guardiola, E. , Gradin, M. & Eriksson, M. (2013). Skin-to-skin contact for pain relief: a bibliometric analysis. Paper presented at 9th International Symposium on Pediatric Pain,June 17-20, 2013, Stockholm, Sweden.
Reports
- Eriksson, M. , Gradin, M. & Expertgrupp, _. (2014). Behandling av barn i samband med smärtsamma procedurer i hälso- och sjukvård: kunskapsdokument. Uppsala: Läkemedelsverket (Information från Läkemedelsverket 3).