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Herdís Sveinsdóttir - Professor
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School of Health Sciences
Herdís Sveinsdóttir
Íslenska
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Eirberg / EIR-305
Phone
525 - 4971
8968757
Email
herdis [at] hi.is
Unit
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
ORCID site
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1766-3543
Research portal – Herdís Sveinsdóttir
Courses 2024 - 2025
HVS202G - Introduction to multidisciplinary health sciences - The health science day
HJÚ633G - Nursing care of surgical patients
HJÚ561L - Final project
Collaboration
see homepage
http://www.hi.is/~herdis/curriculumvitae.html
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see homepage
http://www.hi.is/~herdis/curriculumvitae.html
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see homepage
http://www.hi.is/~herdis/curriculumvitae.html
Published works
2024
Möguleg framtíðarsýn og rammi náms í hjúkrunar- og ljósmóðurfræðum [Potential future vision and framework for Nursing and Midwifery Education]
Menntakvika 2024: Ráðstefna í menntavísindum
2023
Nurse managers’ assessments about nursing education and work life's competence demands
Nordic Journal of Nursing Research
Áhrif COVID-19 faraldursins á líðan hjúkrunar- og ljósmóðurfræðinemenda og viðhorf þeirra til námsumhverfis í samkomutakmörkunum
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Reviewing birth experience following a high-risk pregnancy
Midwifery
A successful nursing education promotes newly graduated nurses’ job satisfaction one year after graduation
BMC Nursing
Educational and personal burnout and burnout regarding collaborating with fellow university nursing students during COVID-19 in 2020-2021
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
2022
Patients' expectations and experiences of provided surgery-related patient education
Nursing Open
Psychometric testing of the facilitative student–patient relationship scale within six EUROPEAN countries
Nursing Open
Streita nemenda í hjúkrunarfræði í fyrstu bylgju COVID-19
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Heilsutengd lífsgæði sjúklinga eftir liðskiptaaðgerð á mjöðm:
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2021
Pain Rehabilitation’s Effect on People in Chronic Pain: A Prospective Cohort Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Pain, Sleep, and Health-Related Quality of Life after Multidisciplinary Intervention for Chronic Pain
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The level of competence of graduating nursing students in 10 European countries—Comparison between countries
Nursing Open
The competence of nurse educators and graduating nurse students
Nurse Education Today
Predictors of university nursing students burnout at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic
Nurse Education Today
Final clinical practicum shapes the transition experience and occupational commitment of newly graduated nurses in Europe—A longitudinal study
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Pain, sleep, and health-related quality of life after multidisciplinary intervention for chronic pain
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Pain rehabilitation’s effect on people in chronic pain
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Symptoms of anxiety and depression in surgical patients at the hospital, 6 weeks and 6 months postsurgery
Nursing Open
Streita og kunlun hjúkrunarfræðinema á lokaári við Háskóla Íslands og Háskólann á Akureyri
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Streita og kulnun hjúkrunarfræðinema á lokaári við Háskóla Íslands og Háskólann á Akureyri
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Health related quality of life in patients having total knee replacement and associations with symptoms, recovery, and patient education
International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing
Predictors of university nursing students burnout at the time of the COVID-19 pandemic
Nurse Education Today
2020
Breaking the vicious circle
Nursing Open
Breaking the vicious circle: Experiences of people in chronic pain on the pain rehabilitation journey
Nursing Open
Health related quality of life in patients having total knee replacement and associations with symptoms, recovery, and patient education: A six month follow up study.
International Journal of Orthopaedic and Trauma Nursing
Symptoms of anxiety and depression in surgical patients at the hospital, 6 weeks and 6 months postsurgery: A questionnaire study
Nursing Open
2019
Mat hjúkrunarfræðinga á skurðlækningasviði Landspítala á eigin hæfni
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Processing birth experiences: A content analysis of women’s preferences.
Midwifery
Towards the Future: The Education of Nurses in Iceland Reconsidered
Processing birth experiences
Midwifery
2018
Contraindications in planned home birth in Iceland
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
The content of nurse unit managers’ work: a descriptive study using daily activity diaries
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Menstruation, objectification and health-related quality of life: A questionnaire study
Journal of Clinical Nursing
Mat hjúkrunarfræðinga sem sjá um bráðatilvik á landsbyggðinni á eigin hæfni
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Predictors of women's positive childbirth pain experience
Women and Birth
Menstruation, objectification and health-related quality of life
Journal of Clinical Nursing
The content of nurse unit managers’ work
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
2017
The predictive role of support in the birth experience: A longitudinal cohort study
Women and Birth
Tíðaverkir ungra kvenna og samband þeirra við hlutgervingu, viðhorf til blæðinga, lífshætti, heilsufar og blæðingar
Ljósmæðrablaðið
The role of menstruation in women's objectification
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Maður, kona, mein. Þarfir maka sjúklinga sem fá hormónahvarfsmeðferð vegna blöðruhálskirtilskrabbameins
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
The predictive role of support in the birth experience
Women and Birth
Determinants of Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Pain among Nurses in a University Hospital
Pain Management Nursing
The effectiveness of the Pain Resource Nurse Program to improve pain management in the hospital setting
International Journal of Nursing Studies
2016
Fasta á undan skurðaðgerð
Laeknabladid
Praise matters
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Recovery After Same-Day Surgery in Patients Receiving General Anesthesia
Journal of Perianesthesia Nursing
Maternal attitudes towards home birth and their effect on birth outcomes in Iceland
Midwifery
Líðan dagaðgerðarsjúklinga eftir svæfingu
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Fasta á undan skurðaðgerð: Leiðbeiningar til sjúklinga og lengd föstu – framskyggn könnun
Læknablaðið
2015
Quality Pain Management in the Hospital Setting from the Patient's Perspective
Pain Practice
Órád eftir opna hjartaadgerd
Laeknabladid
Autonomy in place of birth
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy
Outcome of planned home and hospital births among low-risk women in Iceland in 2005-2009
Birth
Hin fullkomnu sköp: Heimildasamantekt um skapabarmaaðgerðir
Ljósmæðrablaðið
Áhrif átraskana á útkomu meðgöngu. Kerfisbundin heimildasamantekt
Ljósmæðrablaðið
Viðhorf til tíðablæðinga og hlutgerð líkamsvitund; Þýðing og forprófun tveggja mælitækja
Ljósmæðrablaðið
Óráð eftir opna hjartaaðgerð: kerfisbundin samantekt á algengi, áhættuþáttum og afleiðingum
Læknablaðið
Quality Pain Management Practices in a University Hospital
Pain Management Nursing
Pregnant women's expectations about pain intensity during childbirth and their attitudes towards pain management
Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
2014
Readiness for and predictors of evidence-based practice of acute-care nurses
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Attitudes of Registered and Licensed Practical Nurses About the Importance of Families in Surgical Hospital Units
Journal of Family Nursing
Starfsánægja, streita og heilsufar á breytingartímum:Rannsókn á Kragasjúkrahúsunum
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Starfsánægja, streita og heilsufar á breytingatímum: Rannsókn á Kragasjúkrahúsum
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Surgical nurses' intention to leave a workplace in Iceland
Journal of Nursing Management
Attitudes of Registered and Licensed Practical Nurses About the Importance of Families in Surgical Hospital Units: Findings From the Landspitali University Hospital Family Nursing Implementation Project.
Journal of Family Nursing
2012
Varð ég kona í dag? Um upphaf tíðablæðinga
Postoperative Psychological Distress in Patients Having Total Hip or Knee Replacements
Orthopaedic Nursing
Predictors of psychological distress in patients at home following cardiac surgery
European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
Postoperative psychological distress in patients having total hip or knee replacements
Orthopaedic Nursing
2011
Fræðsla skurðsjúklinga : inntak, ánægja og áhrifaþættir
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
The content of the work of clinical nurse specialists described by use of daily activity diaries
Journal of Clinical Nursing
2010
Mat skurðsjúklinga á verkjum og verkjameðferð
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Factors associated with psychological distress at home following elective surgery in a representative group of surgical patients: an explorative panel study
Vard i Norden
Patient Safety in Europe: Medication error and hospital health-care acquired infection. The WENR report and Reasons theory of human fallibility
Að vinna margslungin verk af fagmennsku í breytilegu umhverfi : um störf hjúkrunarfræðinga á skurðlækningadeildum
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Verkir hjá skurðsjúklingum á Landspítala
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2009
Kvíði og þunglyndi skurðsjúklinga á Landspitala
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Þjálfun hjúkrunarfræðinga til sérhæfðra verka : mat hjúkrunarfræðinga á slysa- og bráðamóttöku á minniháttar ökkla- og fótaáverkum með aðstoð Ottawa-gátlistans
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Þjálfun hjúkrunarfræðinga til sérhæfðra verka
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2008
Report
Journal of Research in Nursing
Predictors of self-assessed physical and mental health of Icelandic nurses
International Journal of Nursing Studies
2007
Self-assessed occupational health and working environment of female nurses, cabin crew and teachers
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Draumaland hjúkrunarfræðinga. Um hjúkrunarstarf og raunveruleikann í starfinu
Sveigjanlegar vaktir: Um viðhorf og væntingar til vaktavinnu
Rannsóknir í félagsvísindum
Hvað angrar kennara? Birtingarmyndir andlegrar og líkamlegrar vanlíðanar
Netla
Researching women's health
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Rannsóknir í hjúkrun, rannsóknaraðferðir og hjúkrunarstarf, 1987 – 2007
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2006
Að vera berskjaldaður í lífi og starfi: varnarleysi og særanleiki innan og utan stofnana með sérstaka áherslu á varnarleysi kvenna
Lifestyle, harassment at work and self-assessed health of female flight attendants, nurses and teachers
Work
Self-assessed quality of sleep, occupational health, working environment, illness experience and job satisfaction of female nurses working different combination of shifts
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Women's attitudes to hormone replacement therapy in the aftermath of the Women's Health Initiative study
Journal of Advanced Nursing
Occupational stress, job satisfaction, and working environment among Icelandic nurses
International Journal of Nursing Studies
2005
Vulnerability
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Tekist á við tíðarhvörf : um líðan og afstöðu 47 til 53 ára kvenna til tíðarhvarfa og notkunar tíðarhvarfahormóna
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2004
Lifestyle, harassment at work and self-assessed health of female flight attendants, nurses and teachers.
2002
Whose voice? Whose experiences? Women's qualitative accounts of general and private discussion of premenstrual syndrome
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
2001
Könnun á vinnuálagi og starfsánægju íslenskra hjúkrunarfræðinga: Stuðningur í starfi starfsánægja og möguleikar á að sinna starfi.
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Könnun á vinnuálagi og starfsánægju íslenskra hjúkrunarfræðinga: Streita og álag
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
2000
Könnun á vinnuálagi og starfsánægju íslenskra hjúkrunarfræðinga.
Tímarit hjúkrunarfræðinga
Menstrual cycle symptom variation in a community sample of women using and not using oral contraceptives
Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica
1999
Women's perceptions of phenomena they label premenstrual tension
Journal of Advanced Nursing
1998
Prospective assessment of menstrual and premenstrual experiences of icelandic women
Health Care for Women International
1993
The Attitudes towards Menstruation among Icelandic Nursing Students — Their Relationship with Menstrual Preparation and Menstrual Characteristics
Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
1991
Retrospective assessment of premenstrual changes in Icelandic women
Health Care for Women International
Symptom patterns in women with premenstrual syndrome complaints
Journal of Advanced Nursing
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