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Ann-Sofie Sundqvist

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Ann-Sofie Sundqvist
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About Ann-Sofie Sundqvist

Ann-Sofie Sundqvist has a clinical background as a registered nurse anesthetist. She received her doctorate at Örebro University in 2017 with the thesis Perioperative patient advocacy - having the patient's best interests at heart.

Ann-Sofie is employed within Region Örebro County, Örebro, Sweden, where she holds a part-time position as a researcher/research supervisor at the University Health Care Research Center (UFC) and a part-time position as a research funding advisor at the Grants Office.

Research focus

Ann-Sofie conducts research in the clinical field within three main areas: patients' and their family members experience of care and treatment, clinical development and competence, and deafblindness.

Area Patients' and their family members experience of care and treatment
In this area, Ann-Sofie is a co-supervisor to three doctoral students who investigate how patients' and their family members experience care and treatment. The focuses are, among others, how people with funnel chest experience their life situation, how children and young people can make their voices heard regarding their care and treatment, and also how patients, family members and healthcare staff experience the family involvment in care.

Area Clinical development and competence
Within the area of ​​clinical development and evidence, the research focuses on competence and bacterial growth in the operating environment. The phenomenon patient advocacy is a theoretical approach to visualize the registered nurse anesthetist's professional role, with the goal to further clarify the registered nurse anesthetist's area of ​​expertise. Ann-Sofie has also conducted research regarding the competence of nurses working in the post-operative context. What happens to bacterial growth on surgical instruments that has been set up pending surgery and whether there is any change over time up to 24 hours are questions that are investigated in this area, among other things.

Area Deafblindness
Ann-Sofie has, on behalf of the National Resource Center for Deafblindness, written two systematic reports regarding habilitation- and rehabilitation interventions for adults and children/young people with deafblindness. She has also compiled a report on experience-based literature with the main focus of habilitation- and rehabilitation interventions for adults with deafblindness. The Life Adjustment Model, which is a psychoeducational group intervention given to people with deafblindness, will be evaluated in a current project.

Supervision

Ann-Sofie is co-supervisor to three PhD students within the Faculty of Medicine and Health at Örebro University.

Teaching

Ann-Sofie teaches qualitative methods on the doctoral course General Scientific Methods in Medical Science (15 credits) at Örebro University.

Publications

Articles in journals |  Articles, reviews/surveys |  Conference papers |  Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries |  Reports | 

Articles in journals

Articles, reviews/surveys

Conference papers

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Reports