Sigrid Nakrem
Background and activities
Key qualifications
Sigrid Nakrem is a Registred Nurse (RN) with a master's degree in Health Science and PhD in Public Health from 2011. The PhD-project focused on quality of care and quality measures in nursing home, with a special focus on defining quality of care from the resident perspective. Welfare Technology and eHealth is another main area of research, and she has gained experience from a large research project related to implementation of technology for home healthcare. Her educational and teaching competence is in the areas quality of care, nursing home care, quality management in organizations and innovations in health care. She has supervision experience, and is an experienced nurse in a diversity of nursing practice.
Research groups: Center for health promotion research, Ageing and older people's health, and Nursing research
Courses
- SYT2301 - Nursing Management and Service Development
- HLS3801 - Experts in Teamwork - Welfare Technology for Sustainable Healthcare and Inclusion in the Local Community
- SYA3106 - Pasient Safety
- HELT6002 - Welfare Technology, E-health and Innovation
- SYT3106 - Pasient Safety
Scientific, academic and artistic work
A selection of recent journal publications, artistic productions, books, including book and report excerpts. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2021) Relatives’ experiences with abuse and neglect in Norwegian nursing homes. A qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. vol. 21 (684).
- (2020) Nursing home leaders’ perceptions of factors influencing the reporting of elder abuse and neglect: a qualitative study. Journal of Health Organisation and Management. vol. 34 (6).
- (2020) Elder abuse and neglect: an overlooked patient safety issue. A focus group study of nursing home leaders’ perceptions of elder abuse and neglect. BMC Health Services Research. vol. 20 (199).
- (2020) React and act: a qualitative study of how nursing home leaders follow up on staff-to-resident abuse. BMC Health Services Research. vol. 20 (1).
- (2020) Technology and relational trust in care interactions. Gerontechnology. vol. 19.
- (2020) Cornell's Depression for Dementia Scale: A psychometric study among Norwegian nursing home residents. Archives of gerontology and geriatrics (Print).
- (2019) Staff experiences with implementing a case conferencing care model in nursing homes: a focus group study. BMC Health Services Research. vol. 19 (191).
- (2018) Care relationships at stake? Home healthcare professionals' experiences with digital medicine dispensers - a qualitative study. BMC Health Services Research. vol. 18 (26).
- (2017) Pårørende en betinget ressurs? En kvalitativ studie av pårørende til langtidsbeboeres i sykehjem sine erfaringer av egen rolle. Family members as a conditional resource? A qualitative study of long-term nursing home residents' next-of-kin experience of their role. Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning. vol. 3 (3).
- (2016) Constipation and Laxative Use among Nursing Home Patients: Prevalence and Associations Derived from the Residents Assessment Instrument for Long-Term Care Facilities (interRAI LTCF). Gastroenterology Research and Practice. vol. 2016:1215746.
- (2016) Exploring faecal incontinence in nursing home patients: a cross-sectional study of prevalence and associations derived from the Residents Assessment Instrument for Long-Term Care Facilities. Journal of Advanced Nursing. vol. 72 (7).
- (2016) Sikkerhetstiltak for legemidler i sykehjem. Sykepleien Forskning.
- (2015) Feasibility, acceptability, and adherence of two educational programs for care staff concerning nursing home patients' fecal incontinence: A pilot study preceding a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Implementation Science. vol. 10 (1).
- (2015) Effect of a multifaceted educational program for care staff concerning fecal incontinence in nursing home patients: Study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. vol. 16 (1).
- (2015) Kvalitetsindikatorer. Oversikt over internasjonal forskning og praksis. Geriatrisk sykepleie. vol. 7 (1).
- (2015) Symposium 10 Health promoting nursing homes. Care quality and working environment in Norwegian nursing homes. C2: Quality of care in nursing homes from the nursing home residents' perspectives. The journal of Nursing Home Research. vol. 1 (1).
- (2015) Understanding organizational and cultural premises for quality of care in nursing homes: an ethnographic study. BMC Health Services Research. vol. 15:508.
- (2014) En ny praksismodell i sykepleierutdanningen for framtidens behov? En Q-metodisk studie av erfaringer med samarbeidslæring i praksisstudiene. Vård i Norden. vol. 34 (112).
- (2014) Konflikter i studiegrupper - forekomst og konsekvenser for læring og trivsel. UNIPED. vol. 37 (1).
- (2013) Ambiguities: residents' experience of "nursing home as my home". International Journal of Older People Nursing. vol. 8 (3).