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Herdis Alvsvåg

Fields of expertise

Municipal health services
Ethics
Formation
Nursing
Care
Welfare state
Higher education
Reflection

Scientific publications

2022

Autonomy conquers all: a thematic analysis of nurses’ professional judgement encountering resistance to care from home-dwelling persons with dementia 2022 BMC Health Services Research - Åshild Gjellestad, Trine Oksholm, Herdis Alvsvåg, Frøydis Kristine Bruvik
Trust-building interventions for home-dwelling persons with dementia who resist care 2022 Nursing Ethics - Åshild Gjellestad, Trine Oksholm, Herdis Alvsvåg, Frøydis Kristine Bruvik
Dignity at stake in educational relations - The significance of confirmation 2022 Nursing Ethics - Tone Stikholmen, Dagfinn Nåden, Herdis Alvsvåg
Trust-building interventions for home-dwelling persons with dementia who resist care 2022 Nursing Ethics - Åshild Gjellestad, Trine Oksholm, Herdis Alvsvåg, Frøydis Kristine Bruvik
Care practices at the intersection between resistance and involuntary treatment and care. A mixed-methods study of how health care professionals approach resistance to care and involuntary treatment among home-dwelling persons with dementia 2022 - Åshild Gjellestad, Frøydis Kristine Bruvik, Herdis Alvsvåg, Trine Oksholm

2013

Entering a World with No Future: A phenomenological study describing the embodied experience of time when living with severe incurable disease 2013 Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences - Sidsel Ellingsen, Åsa Kristina Roxberg, Kjell Kristoffersen, Jan Henrik Rosland, Herdis Alvsvåg
Promoting students' ability to reflect - an educational challenge 2013 Uniped - Journal of University and College Pedagogy - Hellen Dahl, Herdis Alvsvåg
Introduction: Socially critical and professionally critical detours Necessary detours : a scientific anthology for Kari Martinsen's 70th birthday 2013 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Ådel Bergland, Oddvar Førland
What's new in the Coordination Reform and what consequences might it have for health and care services? : Old wine in new bottles? Necessary detours : a scientific anthology for Kari Martinsen's 70th birthday 2013 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Insight-based professional practice should replace knowledge-based practice Necessary detours: a scientific anthology for Kari Martinsen's 70th birthday 2013 - Herdis Alvsvåg

2008

The nurse's learning through the patient's meeting with death Delmar, C. & Johns, C. (ed.). The Good, the Wise and the Right. Clinical Nursing Practice 2008 - Herdis Alvsvåg
The (Dis)appearance of the Dying Patient in Generalist Hospital and Care Home Nurses' Talk About the Patient 2008 Nursing Philosophy - Kirsten Costain Schou, Herdis Alvsvåg, Gunnhild Blåka, Eva Gjengedal
The (Dis)appearance of the Dying Patient in Generalist Hospital and Care Home Nurses' Talk About the Patient 2008 Nursing Philosophy - Kirsten Costain Schou, Herdis Alvsvåg, Gunnhild Blåka, Eva Gjengedal
Time in short meetings Care in time and space. Danish Christian Nursing Association's 50th anniversary book 2008 - Herdis Alvsvåg
The nurse's learning through the patient's meeting with death 2008 Clinical Nursing - Herdis Alvsvåg
The nurse's learning through the patient's encounter with death 2008 Clinical Nursing - Herdis Alvsvåg
Feeling at home - in your own home and in a nursing home? Home: Elderly and Home 2008 - Herdis Alvsvåg

2007

Learning Nursing - Through Personal and Professional Experiences Engagement and Learning 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Learning nursing - through personal and professional experiences Engagement and learning. subject-critical perspectives on nursing 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg
On a collision course with the employer's interests? Nurses' views on the training of newly employed Engagement and learning 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Learning Nursing - Through Personal and Professional Experiences Engagement and learning. subject critical perspectives on nursing 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg
What can we learn from newly graduated nurses' feedback to the education? Engagement and learning 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Introduction. Reflections on education and knowledge in nursing Engagement and learning. subject-critical perspectives on nursing 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Engagement and learning. subject-critical perspectives on nursing 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Reflections on education and knowledge in nursing Engagement and learning. Professionally critical perspectives on nursing 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
On a Collision Course with Employer Interests? Nurses' Views on the Training of Newly Employed Staff Engagement and Learning. Critical Perspectives on Nursing 2007 - Herdis Alvsvåg

Other publications

2025

A qualitative study exploring the experiences of nurses delivering Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy for patients with non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer 2025 EAUN25 - Kristina Førde, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Herdis Alvsvåg, Birthe Ørskov
You are you, and I am me - encounters with (each)other 2025 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Nursing Book 2: Key concepts and patient experiences 2025 - Anne Kari Tolo Heggestad, Unni Knutstad, Kirsten Lode, Ida Hellum Sandbekken, Borghild Løyland, Vibeke Lohne, Herdis Alvsvåg, Anners Lerdal, Ann Kristin Bjørnnes, Ellen Karine Grov, Anne-Lise Tamber, Gro Rugseth, Karen Synne Groven
Be Proud to Be a Nurse in 2025 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Hilde Kleppestø

2023

From "Necessary Detours" to a day of "Slow Heartbeats". 2023 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Irene Hunskår
Introduction 2023 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Irene Hunskår
Nursing - Engagement and Identity 2023 - Irene Hunskår, Herdis Alvsvåg
We Need to Talk About the Use of Coercion Against People with Dementia 2023 - Åshild Gjellestad, Trine Oksholm, Herdis Alvsvåg, Frøydis Kristine Bruvik

2022

Love, Hope and Faith 2022 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Kari Marie Martinsen
Nursing Care Practices when encountering Resistance to Care from Home-Dwelling Persons with Dementia 2022 Nordic Congress of Gerontology - Åshild Gjellestad, Frøydis Bruvik, Trine Oksholm, Herdis Alvsvåg

2019

Professional Ethics in Nursing 2019 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Einar Aadland
Survey: Children pull women out of addiction. 2019 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Britt Takvam, Tore Hjalmar Sævik

2018

A qualitative study of how the multidisciplinary team members experience their role in reablement 2018 World Congress of Occupational Therapy - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Olbjørg Skutle, Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Users' and relatives' experiences of participating in everyday rehabilitation. 2018 Regional interdisciplinary research conference in rehabilitation - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland, Hanne Tuntland
Nursing students experience of dignity during education 2018 7th International Nurse Education Conference (NETNEP) - Tone Stikholmen, Dagfinn Nåden, Herdis Alvsvåg
The relatives`voice:how do relatives experience participation in reablement? A qualitative study 2018 World Congress of Occupational Therapy - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland

2016

Driving forces for home-based reablement; a qualitative study of older adults' experiences. 2016 National conference on everyday rehabilitation - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Hanne Tuntland, Oddvar Førland, Herdis Alvsvåg
Driving forces for home-based reablement; a qualitative study of older adults' experiences 2016 COTEC-ENOTHE Congress - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Hanne Tuntland, Oddvar Førland, Herdis Alvsvåg
Ethical challenges in care technology? 2016 Journal for profession and faith - Herdis Alvsvåg
Ethical challenges in welfare technology? Seminar: Welfare technology on the agenda in the nursing laboratory. Reflections and discussions 2016 Professional day - Herdis Alvsvåg
From Hudiksvall to Fredericia - what's next? 2016 The Nordic welfare state's silent field of care - Herdis Alvsvåg
Relatives' experiences with everyday rehabilitation 2016 National conference on everyday rehabilitation, research results - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Presentation of research results regarding relatives' experiences with everyday rehabilitation in Voss municipality 2016 Open information meeting for citizens - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Presentation of research results regarding older people's experiences with everyday rehabilitation in Voss. Research dissemination for employees in the municipal health and care department; 2016-03-02 - 2016-03-02 HIB 2016 Research dissemination - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Hanne Tuntland, Oddvar Førland, Herdis Alvsvåg
Presentation of research results regarding older people's experiences with everyday rehabilitation in Voss. Research dissemination for employees in the municipal health and care department; 2016-03-02 - 2016-03-02 HIB 2016 Research dissemination - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Hanne Tuntland, Oddvar Førland, Herdis Alvsvåg
Presentation of research results regarding older people's experiences with everyday rehabilitation in Voss. HIB 2016 Open information meeting for citizens - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Hanne Tuntland, Oddvar Førland, Herdis Alvsvåg
Presentation of research results regarding relatives' experiences with everyday rehabilitation in Voss. Research dissemination for employees in the municipal health and care department; 2016-03-02 - 2016-03-02 HIB 2016 Fagseminar - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
The relative's voice: How do relatives experience participation in reablement? A qualitative study 2016 COTEC-ENOTHE Congress - Kari Margrete Hjelle, Oddvar Førland, Herdis Alvsvåg
The Welfare State - Values Under Pressure? 2016 Open Seminar - Herdis Alvsvåg

2011

End of life care & quality of death. Experience of time when living with incurable disease - a qualitative study 2011 The 12th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care - Sidsel Ellingsen, Kjell Kristoffersen, Jan Henrik Rosland, Herdis Alvsvåg, Åsa Kristina Roxberg
If only someone had intervened ... 2011 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Britt Heimvik Takvam
The lived experience of time 2011 12th Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care - Sidsel Ellingsen, Åsa Kristina Roxberg, Kjell Kristoffersen, Jan Henrik Rosland, Herdis Alvsvåg

2010

"Oases of reflection" - a pedagogical tool Refleksjonsoaser - et pedagogisk verktøy 2010 The 8th European Conference of Nurse Educators - Herdis Alvsvåg
Entering Another's Home 2010 untitled text - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education in Health Professions 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education in healthcare - What and how? 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education in healthcare - what knowledge do we need? 2010 Seminar in connection with the start of a master's degree program - Herdis Alvsvåg
The meanings of education for professional education - Response from a private university college 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Training in the health and social sector 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
The Educated Healthcare Professional 2010 The Return of Education - Seminar on Education in Professional Work - Herdis Alvsvåg
A Formed Being 2010 - Herdis Alvsvåg
What does education in healthcare mean? 2010 Research Days in Bergen - Herdis Alvsvåg
Who "owns" the education debate? 2010 Doubt Days 2010 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Knowledge and learning 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Forms of knowledge in professional education. Student guidance in a formation perspective - challenges in higher education 2010 Student guidance in a formation perspective - Herdis Alvsvåg
Learning Nursing Through Personal and Professional Experiences 2010 utenTitteltekst - Herdis Alvsvåg
Learning Nursing Through Personal and Professional Experiences 2010 utenTitteltekst - Herdis Alvsvåg
Learning Nursing in the Clinical Field 2010 without Title Text - Herdis Alvsvåg
Care and Evidence 2010 utenTitteltekst - Herdis Alvsvåg
On supervision of master's students 2010 withoutTitletext - Herdis Alvsvåg
On supervising master's students 2010 utenTitteltekst - Herdis Alvsvåg
History and Tradition of Nursing 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Nursing History and Tradition 2010 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
The role of the nursing school and the clinical field in connection with nursing students' learning in the clinical field 2010 "Nursing Day 2010" - Herdis Alvsvåg

2009

Education - in an operating room nursing context 2009 NSFLOS professional seminar - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education in the health and social sector 2009 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education in the health and social sector 2009 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Dannelsesutvalgets innstilling - does this proposal concern us? 2009 SUFAL - The professional forum for nurse education - Herdis Alvsvåg
The golden mean 2009 The art of balancing in an efficient health service. Ethics conference for and by nurses - Herdis Alvsvåg
Is education relevant in nursing? 2009 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
About Love 2009 Untitled Text - Herdis Alvsvåg
Person-Oriented Professionalism? Between Education and Professional Practice 2009 Open Seminar - Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen - Herdis Alvsvåg
Nursing - historical perspective, care, professional judgment and challenges 2009 withoutTitletext - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education for professionalism. How can college and clinic contribute? 2009 Education for the future - about the teacher's role, change, identity formation and learning styles - Herdis Alvsvåg
Welfare systems in historical context and the pressure they are exposed to today 2009 utenTitteltekst - Herdis Alvsvåg

2008

Following Nokut: Person-oriented professionalism - challenges for today's nursing education 2008 Anniversary seminar 29-30 September, Bergen University College - Herdis Alvsvåg
Following Nokut: Person-oriented professionalism - challenges for today's nursing education 2008 Anniversary seminar 29-30 September 2008 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Who defines the nursing role - who defines the quality of nursing care? 2008 Local professional political forum in Hordaland - Herdis Alvsvåg
Who defines the nursing role - who defines the quality of nursing? 2008 Local professional political forum in Hordaland - Herdis Alvsvåg
The concept of care 2008 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
Caring Thinking 2008 Teaching Seminar - Continuing Education in Cancer Nursing - Herdis Alvsvåg
Care Thinking 2008 withoutTitleText - Herdis Alvsvåg
The History of Nursing from 1970 with Special Emphasis on the Relationship Between Theoretical and Clinical Knowledge 2008 without Title Text - Herdis Alvsvåg
History of Nursing since 1970 – with special emphasis on the relationship between theoretical and clinical knowledge 2008 Teaching seminar - Herdis Alvsvåg
Out into the world – from nursing student to nurse 2008 Closing seminar - Herdis Alvsvåg
How to get out into the world - from nursing student to nurse 2008untitledtext - Herdis Alvsvåg
The historical and ideological basis of the welfare state 2008 Interdisciplinary continuing education - teaching seminar - Herdis Alvsvåg
The historical and ideological basis of the welfare state 2008 withoutTitletext - Herdis Alvsvåg

2006

"The nursing profession is simply exciting" : well-being and mastery in the nursing profession : a qualitative study of nurses working in hospitals 2006 - Margareth Gauslaa Haukom, Herdis Alvsvåg
The health-promoting nursing function in daily work and competence building of this in the nursing education 2006 - Åse Gammersvik, Herdis Alvsvåg
Communication in the brief encounter between patient and biomedical scientist in connection with blood sampling: a qualitative study 2006 - Anita Reidun Turøy, Herdis Alvsvåg
New graduate nurses’ learning in hospitals, nursing homes and home care: What is important? 2006 Learning and well-being in nursing work - Herdis Alvsvåg
Relatives' experiences with police-assisted involuntary commitment 2006 Seminar on human rights and mental health care - Herdis Alvsvåg

2005

Continuing Education in Health Pedagogy for Healthcare Professionals, 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Encountering the surgical patient. What does it entail? 2005 Seminar: Surgical Nursing - responsibility and function - Herdis Alvsvåg
The hidden reform. On mastery and care in a home-based aid system 2005 Continuing education in the municipal health service - Herdis Alvsvåg
What is meaningful in interpersonal relationships? 2005 Hormones in harmony or metabolic anarchy? - Herdis Alvsvåg
What is meaningful in interpersonal relationships? 2005 Hormones in harmony or metabolic anarchy? - Herdis Alvsvåg
South-Trøndelag University College. Revision of accreditation of bachelor's degree program in nursing 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Bengt Molander, Olle Söderhamn, Pia Mølsted
Gjøvik University College. Revision of accreditation of bachelor's degree program in nursing 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Bengt Molander, Olle Söderhamn, Pia Mølsted
Hedmark University College, Elverum. Revision of accreditation of bachelor's degree program in nursing 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Bengt Molander, Olle Söderhamn, Pia Mølsted
Hedmark University College, Elverum. Revision of accreditation of bachelor's degree program in nursing 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Bengt Molander, Olle Söderhamn, Pia Mølsted
Nord-Trøndelag University College, Levanger. Revision of accreditation of bachelor's degree program in nursing 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Bengt Molander, Olle Söderhamn, Pia Mølsted
Nord-Trøndelag University College, Namsos. Revision of accreditation of bachelor's degree program in nursing 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Bengt Molander, Olle Söderhamn, Pia Mølsted
NSF-NOKUT. Educational challenges. Assessments from an expert 2005 After Nokut - what now? - Herdis Alvsvåg
Newly graduated nurses' views on nursing education, in light of experiences as active professionals 2005 - Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Quality at the End of Life? 2005 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research - Eva Gjengedal, Kirsten Schou, Herdis Alvsvåg, Gunnhild Blåka
Quality at the End of Life? 2005 12th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research - Eva Gjengedal, Kirsten Schou, Herdis Alvsvåg, Gunnhild Blåka
Aesthetics, education and care 2005 Day seminar: Care in professional meetings - Herdis Alvsvåg
History of Nursing with emphasis on the last 30 years 2005 Teaching/Guest Lecturer - Herdis Alvsvåg
Welfare systems in historical context and the pressure they are exposed to today 2005 Interdisciplinary continuing education in rehabilitation - Herdis Alvsvåg

2004

Formation 2004 National Group for Teachers in Intensive Education - Herdis Alvsvåg
Education - pedagogical challenges 2004 Pedagogical forum - Herdis Alvsvåg
Knowledge status for the research program KUPP. Knowledge development in professional education and professional practice 2004 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Learning in communities of practice - nurses' learning in encounters with dying patients 2004 Professional days at Aalborg University Hospital - Herdis Alvsvåg
New Paths in Communities: "From Motherhouse to Diaconal Community 2004" of the 39th Conference of the Kaiserswerth General Conference "Community Works" - Herdis Alvsvåg
Newly graduated nurses' views on nursing education, in light of experiences as active professionals 2004 Knowledge in motion - new challenges for education and research - Herdis Alvsvåg
Newly graduated nurses' views on nursing education, in light of experiences as professionals 2004 - Herdis Alvsvåg
Philosophy of Care 2004 Professional Day - Herdis Alvsvåg
On the track of an enlightened health care system 2004 The 7th International Conference on Philosophical Practice - Herdis Alvsvåg
Personal competence and reflection in clinical nursing practice 2004 Professional day for operating room nurses, anesthesia nurses and intensive care nurses - Herdis Alvsvåg
Perspective of the Nursing School in the Light of the Beginning Nursing Practice 2004 Community and Campus: Building Partnerships for Better Practice, Research and Education - Herdis Alvsvåg, Oddvar Førland
Perspective of the nursing school in the light of the beginning nursing practice 2004 International conference - Community campus partnership - Herdis Alvsvåg