Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Dahl, Berit Misund"

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The meaning of ethically charged encounters and their possible influence on professional identity in Norwegian public health nursing: a phenomenological hermeneutic study

Dahl, Berit Misund; Clancy, Anne; Andrews, Therese (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014-09)

Background: In today’s health care, new health reforms focus on market values and demands of efficiency influence health workers’ professional practice. Norwegian public health nurses work mainly with healthy populations, ...
The meaning of professional identity in public health nursing

Dahl, Berit Misund (Doctoral thesis, 2015-09-22)

Because health care is constantly changing, public health nursing is experiencing new and demanding challenges, which can have consequences for the identity of the profession. The overall aims of this dissertation are to ...
Meanings of knowledge and identity in public health nursing in a time of transition: interpretations of public health nurses’ narratives

Dahl, Berit Misund (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015-12)

Background: A changing healthcare system affects the professional identity of nursing groups. Public health nursing has experienced challenges in balancing the paternalistic expert ideology and the empowerment participation ...