Nana Waldréus

Nana Waldréus

Assistant Professor | Assistant Senior Lecturer | Docent
Telephone: +46852483761
Mobile phone: +46702643971
Visiting address: Alfred Nobels Allé 23, D2, Flemingsberg, 14183 Huddinge
Postal address: H1 Neurobiologi, vårdvetenskap och samhälle, H1 Omvårdnad Omv enhet 2, 171 77 Stockholm
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About me

  • I am docent in nursing and hold an assistant professorship. I am also the head of Unit 2 at the Division of Nursing at NVS. I became a registered nurse in 1990 and earned my PhD in 2016 from Linköping University with the dissertation "Thirst in patients with heart failure - Description of thirst dimensions and associated factors with thirst."

    Education in Pedagogy and Leadership

    • Higher Education Pedagogy: Basic Higher Education Pedagogy (2016); Online Networked Learning (2020); Doctoral Supervision (2020); Advanced Higher Education Pedagogy (2022–2023).
    • Leadership: Leadership for Research Group Leaders (2021–2022); New as a Manager (2023–2024); Systematic Work Environment Management (2023); Organizational and Social Work Environment (2023); Future Academic Leaders - FAL (2023–2024).

Research

  • My research focuses on alleviating distressing symptoms such as thirst and improving the care of patients with heart failure and patients in palliative care.

    Current Research Projects

    • Thirst Distress Scale - versions and further development.
    • Description of thirst distress in patients with heart failure - international collaboration.
    • Thirst in patients in palliative care - experiences of patients, relatives, and healthcare staff.
    • Symptom management, nutrition, and physical activity for older, frail persons with heart failure - a pilot study.
    • Doctoral project: Fluid intake in patients with heart failure (doctoral student Linn Höög). 
    • Doctoral project: Fatigue in patients with heart failure (doctoral student Hilda Melander).

Teaching

  • I teach in a course on current nursing/caring science at an advanced level and I co-supervise two doctoral students. I have worked as a teacher in several courses in Bachelor´s and Master´s levels. I have mainly served as course leader, teacher, and examiner in the first course of the nursing program on research methodology, the nursing profession, and nursing/caring science. I have also been program manager of the Specialist Nursing Program in Medical Care and course leader for one of the courses in the program. Additionally, I have supervised students in degree project in nursing at both Bachelor´s and Master´s levels.

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Grants

  • Fluid intake in patients with heart failure
    CIMED
    1 January 2025
  • Fluid intake in patients with heart failure
    Mats Klebergs Stiftelse
    2 January 2024
  • Fluid intake in patients with heart failure
    Mats Klebergs Stiftelse
    2 January 2023
  • Self-care in Older frail Persons with Heart failure Intervention
    CIMED
    4 January 2021 - 30 September 2024
  • Thirst at the end of life – a forgotten problem
    The Sjöberg Foundation
    4 January 2021 - 31 December 2023
  • Physical activity and individualized nutritional treatment – effects on physical function, quality of life, and hospital readmission in older frail patients with heart failure
    King Gustaf V´s and Queen Victoria´s Freemasons´ Foundation
    2 January 2019 - 31 December 2023
  • Experiences of thirst in specialized palliative care – patients' perspectives
    Region Östergötland, Healthcare and Welfare
    2 January 2018 - 31 December 2019
  • Thirst in patients at the end of life – a forgotten symptom?
    FORSS – The Research Council in Southeastern Sweden
    2 January 2018 - 31 December 2019
  • Thirst in patients with heart failure
    Research Support Stockholm County Council, Pick-Up project funding
    2 January 2012 - 31 December 2012
  • Thirst in patients with heart failure
    Research Support Stockholm County Council, Pick-Up research funding
    3 January 2011 - 31 December 2011

Employments

  • Assistant Senior Lecturer, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2024-
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, 2021-2027

Degrees and Education

  • Docent, Karolinska Institutet, 2025
  • PhD, Linköping University, 2016

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