Catharina Lindberg

I am a registered nurse specialising in intensive care, with extensive clinical experience. I hold a PhD in Nursing and a Master's degree in Educational Sciences and have been workning in academia since 2008. I am currently an Assistant Professor and Senior lecturer at the Department of Health and Caring Sciences. I am also a member of the Resilient Healthcare and Patient Activation (ReAction) research group at Linneaeus University.

Teaching

My teaching focuses on scientific theory and methodology, research ethics, caring science and nursing ethics. I teach within the undergraduate nursing programme as well as specialist nursing programmes in acute care, and I am also involved in postgraduate education. I serve as programme manager for the specialist nursing programmes in acute care. In addition, I act as examiner for several courses and as supervisor and examining teacher for bachelor's and master's students in their thesis work. I also serve as assistant supervisor for internal doctoral students.

Research

I obtained my doctoral degree in Nursing from Lund University in 2016 with the thesis “Patient autonomy in highly technological care environments from a caring perspective”. The  thesis aimed to develop an extended understanding of the concept of patient autonomy in a caring context and of its meaning and use in high tech care environments. The findings resulted in the development of a theoretical framework – The Control-Partnership-Transition framework of patient autonomy.

I am interested in qualitative research methods with a special interest in theoretical concepts and theory development. My research focuses on high-tech care, such as intensive care and advanced home care; the ethical concept of autonomy, the concept of self-care monitoring; self-care, integrated care, care continuity and patient safety. I have a particular interest in ethically challening situations in healthcare and in the vulnerability inherent in the patient role.

I am affiliated with the research group Resilient Healthcare and Patient Activation (ReAction), whose research aims to improve the healthcare system's capacity to deliver high-quality and safe care in an equitable manner throughout the patient care pathway. I have, among other hings, been involved in the projects "Seamless Care Transitions - Safe and Secure Care for Older Adults with Complex Care Needs" and "PePP to Prevent Relapse in Hard-to-Heal wounds - A Co-Created Solution for a Personal Self-Care Planning Process". These projects have resulted in several doctoral theses and scientific publications.

I am an assistant supervisor for several doctoral student in Caring Science and Health Sciences.

Commissions

I an a member of the Ethics Council of the Swedish Association for Nurse Anaesthetists and Intensive Care Nurses (RfAnIva).

Between 2018 and 2023, I served as a member of the Ethics Council of the Swedish Nurse Association.

I have represented Sweden on the Steering Committée responsible for developing the revised Code of Ethics for Nurses, a process organised by the International Council of Nurses (ICN). The revised ICN Code of Ethics for Nurses (2021) was lauched on 20 October 2021. I also participated in the translation of the Code inte Swedish (ICN:s etiska kod för sjuksköterskor)