Disputation: Torunn Kitty Vatnøy: Nursing Competence in Norwegian Municipal in-patient Acute Care

Torunn Kitty Vatnøy of the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Agder has submitted her thesis entitled «Nursing Competence in Norwegian Municipal in-patient Acute Care. Professional Accountability, Environment, and Leadership» and will defend the thesis for the PhD-degree Monday 28 November 2022. 

She has followed the PhD programme at the Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences.

Read the summary of the thesis by Torunn Kitty Vatnøy:

The trial lecture and the public defence will take place in Auditorium C2 040, Campus Grimstad and online via the Zoom conferencing app - registration link below.

Dean, Professor Anders Johan Wickstrøm Andersen, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of  Agder,  will chair the disputation.

The trial lecture Monday 28 November at 10:15 hours

Public defence Monday 28 November at 12:30 hours

Given topic for trial lecture: «Quality of care in municipal health and care services: dilemmas and paradoxes in balancing expectations and capabilities»

Thesis Title: «Nursing Competence in Norwegian Municipal in-patient Acute Care. Professional Accountability, Environment, and Leadership»

Search for the thesis in AURA - Agder University Research Archive, a digital archive of scientific papers, theses and dissertations from the academic staff and students at the University of Agder.

The thesis is available here:

PhD thesis Torunn Kitty Vatnøy 14.06.22

The Candidate: Torunn Kitty Vatnøy (1962, Gulen) Nurse from Haukeland sykepleierhøgskole, (Haukeland Nursing College) Bergen (1988) and Intensive Care Nurse from Høgskolen i Agder (Agder University College) (1997). Masters degree in Health Informatics from Høgskolen i Agder (Agder University College) and Aalborg University, Denmark (2005). Work experience as a Nurse, Intensive Care Nurse and Professional development nurse for several years at Alta Infirmery and Sørlandet Hospital. Experience from this work was an important inspiration for the theme in the doctoral work. The doctoral project are tied up to Senter for omsorgsforskning, Sør (Centre for Care Research, South). From 2010 she is working as Associate Professor at the Department of Health and Nursing Sciences, University of Agder.

Opponents:

First opponent: Professor Aud Uhlen Obstfelder, Centre for Care Research, Department of health sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU in Gjøvik

Second opponent: Senior Researcher / Associate Professor Palle Bager, Department of Clinical Medicine - Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Aarhus University, Denmark

Professor Kristin Haraldstad, Department of Health and Nursing Sciences, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, University of  Agder,  is appointed as the administrator for the assessment committee.

Supervisors in the doctoral work were Professor Emerita Bjørg Dale, Department of Health and Nursing Sciences, University of  Agder (main supervisor). Professor Tor-Ivar Karlsen, Department of Psychososial Health, University of Agder and Associate Professor Marianne Sundlisæter Skinner, Centre for Care Research, Department of Health Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU in Gjøvik (co-supervisors)