Kirsten Røland Byermoen

Associate Professor
Faculty of Health and Social Sciences
Department of Nursing and Health Sciences
Campus Drammen (15015)

Responsibilities

Teacher with resposibility for the course SPLVIT2- Nursing during acute, critical and longterm illness, second educational year in bachelor nursing

Supervision on Masters degree thesis

Clinical instructor in physical assessment throughout the bachelor nursing programme

PhD candidate- representant in the PhD program in Personcentred Healthcare, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, 2019-2021.

Competences

Some of my main focus in my work:

  • VR simulation
  • Virtual simulation
  • Connect theory og practical knowledge. Explore how theory, simulation, and praxis provides bridging and development og knowledge
  • Explorations of different learning activitites
  • How to transform human bioscience knowledge during physical assessment
  • Focus on health personells nutrtional competence 
  • Gastroenterological nursing
  • Surgical nursing
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Project experience:

2021-present: VR medicine room.  This is a cooperation project lead by Innlandet Universtiy College and FYND Reality. The project focus on developing pedagogical learning acitivites for using VR medicine room to enhance nursing students competence in drug administration.

2018:  Olav Thon Project. Funding: Olav Thon Foundation: 1,5millioner kroner. Project application focus on nursing students’ translation of bioscience into clinical judgement when performing physical assessment. The funding are used as an external part to fund my PhD. Hilde Eide. Anne Moen, Kirsten R Byermoen and H. Ösp Egilsdottir.

2017-2018  MOOC-Massive Open Online Course. Funding: Norgesuniversitetet. This is a cooperation project lead by University of Oslo. The project focus on development of a MOOC that aims to enhance physical assessment and clinical judgement in primary municipality care.

2017-2018 Evaluation study of the implementation of physical assessment at USN campus Drammen.

CV

2018- present: PhD Candidate. Project: Fasilitators and barriers to learning and using physical assessment in a longiudinal perspective

2012: Master in Nursing Science, University of Oslo

2008: Ongoing education in gastroenterological nursing. Bergen UNiverstiy College

2005: Bachelor in Nursing, Oslo University College

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