Annika Söderman
Annika Söderman Position: Associate Senior Lecturer School/office: School of Health SciencesEmail: YW5uaWthLnNvZGVybWFuO29ydS5zZQ==
Phone: +46 19 303038
Room: P2235
About Annika Söderman
Annika Söderman is a registrated nurse (2002) and district nurse (2008), with previous experiences of working with palliative care and at a health care center. In year 2012, she began teaching as a junior lecturer at the nursing school at Örebro University, in Örebro, Sweden. In September 2021 she defended her Doctoral Thesis at the Department of Health Care Sciences. Annikas research was part of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme Successful Ageing, where her focus was on evaluating the Swedish version of the Dignity Care Intervention (DCI-SWE) in municipal, palliative care, for older people with palliative care needs. Annika is involved in two research groups focusing on palliative care (DCI-SWE and RIPE), and is currently a part of the research project PACEM at Örebro University. She also has a research interest concerning existential health. Annika's pedagogical focus is primarily on palliative care/geriatrics as well as qualitative method, both at undergraduate and advanced level.
Research projects
Active projects
- Emergency care and transport to emergency hospitals by dying patients in the home; a necessity or an unnecessary suffering
- Emergency interventions and transport to hospitals of patients receiving palliative care at home or in nursing homes
- Ambulance transport services for older people - Interview study with healthcare professionals in general palliative municipality care
- To describe relatives? experiences of the meeting with prehospital healthcare professionals in the event of death at home concerning people with palliative care needs
- The pendulum words of Qvarnström and dying in relation to awareness, fear and time; a theoretical analysis.
- The caring process of co-creation in palliative care; A Qualitative Meta Synthesis
- A theoretical perspective to enhance the theory of co-creation in palliative care with dignity
- Mapping the existential dimension of health regarding interventions and instruments - An integrative literature review in palliative care
- National survey of relatives' experiences during specialized palliative care: A palliative registry study
- Palliative Care in Emergency Medicine (Pacem)
- Dignity conserving care for older persons with palliative care needs