Ann-Christin Karlsson, Doctoral student

Sustainable Active Ageing

Titles

RN, MSc, Doctoral student

Department/unit

Blekinge Institute of Technology
School of Health Science
SE-371 79 Karlskrona
Sweden
Phone, E-mail

Title of Thesis work

To be a patient during regional anesthetics and surgey.

Overall aim of the thesis

The overall aim of this phenomenological thesis with a reflective lifeworld approach and a caring science perspective is to describe what it means to be a patient during regional anaesthetics and surgery from a lifeworld perspective. The knowledge of this thesis will contribute to a comprehensive understanding of what it is like to live through the intraoperative situation from the patients’ perspective. This knowledge can be used to further develop care of the awake patient in the intraoperative context. 

Dissertation plan and preliminary time schedule

Dissertation 2012.

Main supervisor

Name: Margaretha Ekebergh
Title: Professor
Affiliation:School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden
E-mail: margaretha.ekebergh@lnu.se

Assistant supervisor

Name: Annika Larsson Mauléon
Title: PhD, Senior lecturer
Affiliation: School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden
E-mail: annika.larsson_mauleon@lnu.se

Name: Sofia Almerud Österberg
Title: PhD, Associate Professor
Affiliation: School of Health and Caring Sciences, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden
E-mail: sofia.almerud@lnu.se

Networks

I am a member of:

Swedish Society of Nursing: www.swenurse.se (opens in a new window)

Publications

Peer review

Study I :"Is that my leg?" Patients' experiences during regional anaesthetics and surgery.
Karlsson, A-C., Ekebergh, M., Almerud-Österberg, S., & Larsson Mauléon, A.
Submitted to Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences. Submitted Oct, 2010. 

In manuscript

Study II: "Only a whisper away -the awake patient's situation during regional anaesthetics from a philosophical point of view."  Karlsson, A-C., Ekebergh, M., Larsson Mauléon, A., & Almerud-Österberg, S.

Planned studies

Study III: Analytical work in progress of video material on the patient's lived context during surgery in regional anesthesia.
Study IV: Developing a theoretical model for caring in the intraoperative context.

Published reports

Johansson Sundler, A., Berglund, M., Summer Meranius, M., Thurang, A., Rusner, M., Nilsson, C., Karlsson, A-C., Petersson, B-O., & Bremer, A. Varför vårdvetenskap? I: Berglund, M., Johansson Sundler, A.,& Roxberg, Å. (red.).Vårdvetenskapliga vägskäl. Rapportserie i vårdvetenskap Nr 002, 2008. Växjö universitet. Institutionen för vårdvetenskap och socialt arbete.

Assignments

Teaching 20%.

Professional background/interests

I graduated in 1982 with a University Certificate in Nursing in Karlskrona and three years later I was awarded a Bachelor of Science in General Nursing. I have worked primarly at the Nephrology unit, Visby Hospital, since 1985. My main assignments and field of responsibility have involved peritoneal dialysis mostly related to patient education, information to next of kin and staff education. I Graduated in 2005 with a Master of Science in Caring Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology, and in the fall of 2006 I worked as a teacher at the Karolinska Institute, Gotland University College, Visby.

I was employed as a doctoral student at the School of Health Science, Karlskrona, in spring 2007 and I was enrolled at Växjö University, for my doctoral studies that same year.

Master's Thesis

Karlsson, A-C. (2005). Living with automated peritoneal dialysis, 20 p. 

Poster presentations

Karlsson, A-C, Larsson Mauléon, A, Sanchez Svensson, M. (2008). Patient participation during regional anaesthesia. An ethical issue during the intraoperative period. NCCS Nordic College of Caring Science conference, Borås, Sweden. Peer-reviewed.

Conference presentations

Karlsson, A-C. (1999). Pre-dialysis Patient Education Program. International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis, Charlotte, South Carolina, USA.

Karlsson, A-C. (2006). Att leva med APD (Automatiserad Peritoneal Dialys). Svensk Nefrologi Sjuksköterskeförenings årsmöte, Stockholm, Sweden. Peer-reviewed.

Karlsson, A-C. (2006). Living with APD. European Dialysis and Transplant Nurses Association/European Renal Care Association, Madrid, Spain. Peer-reviewed.

Karlsson, A-C.(2010). Being Awake During Regional Anaesthetics and Surgery- Giving Voice to Patients' Intraoperative Experiences. 29th International Human Science Research Conference. Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences, 4-8 augusti.

Abstract accepted to International Human Science Research Conference in Oxford, July 2011.

Grants

Travelling bursary for oral presentation at 29th International Human Science Research Conference. Seattle, 2010. Blekinge Institute of Technology 10.000 SEK. Swedish Society of Nursing 10.000 SEK.