Catharina Lindberg

I am a RN specialised in intensive care, and with a long clinical experience. I have a PhD in Nursing and a MSc in Educational Sciences, and have been working in the Academy since 2008. I have a position as Senior Lecturer at the Dept. of Health and Caring Sciences and is a part of the research group Resilient Healthcare and Patient Activation (ReAction) group, at Linnaeus University.

Teaching

My teaching subjects are scientific theory and method, research ethics, caring science and nursing ethics. I work in the nursing program and in the specialist nursing programmes in acute care, and also in postgraduate education. I am the program manager for the specialist nursing programmes in acute care. I am examiner for a number of courses and supervisor and examining teacher for bachelor and master students in their thesis work. I am also assistant supervisor for internal doctoral students.

Research

I got my doctoral degree in nursing at Lund University in 2016 with the thesis “Patient autonomy in highly technological care environments from a caring perspective”. The aim of the thesis was to create an extended understanding of the concept patient autonomy in a caring context and of the meaning and use of the concept in high tech care environments. The findings from the thesis resulted in 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 am a part of the Resilient Healthcare and Patient Activation (ReAction) group, at the Department of Health and Caring Sciences Linnaeus University, led by Professor Mirjam Ekstedt, on complex interventions and self-management support in people with chronic conditions. I work with several joint research projects and I am a supervisor for the PhD students Ann-Therese Hedqvist and Emelie Ingvarsson. I also work with Professor Cecilia Fagerström in the project “A co-created solution for a personal self-care planning process to prevent recurrence in hard-to-heal ulcers”, in which I am a supervisor to PhD student Natali Johnsson.

Commissions

I am since January 2018 a member of the Ethical board of the Swedish Nurse Association.

I was the Swedish representative in the Steering Committée of the revision of the Code of Ethics for Nurses, a collaboration organised by the International Council of Nurses.