Abstract
This chapter will provide an overview of the development of nursing science in Sweden and address the most important decisions and strategies that promoted its development. A helicopter perspective of how the development of nursing science began is taken. An important step for the early development was that nurses organized themselves in the Swedish Society of Nursing and acted primarily to establish a highly educated nurse involved in the development of health care. External changes were moving taxation away from family to individual taxation making it worthwhile for women to enter workforce. Family policy promoted gender-neutral family policy. Nursing education became a university education requiring it to be science-based and requiring teachers to have a PhD. Doctoral programs are available to all, but two of the schools providing nursing education and nurses can go straight to a PhD program after finishing their bachelors program. Nurses in the health-care system are obliged to act in accordance with science and best proved practice. Today there are more than 130 nurse professors all over the country and more than 1700 nurses have a PhD. In summary internal as well as external societal factors drove the development towards the current situation.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Moberg Å. Hon var ingen Florence Nightingale Människan bakom myten. (She was not a Florence Nightingale, the person behind the myth). Stockholm: Natur och Kultur; 2007.
Holmdahl B. Sjuksköterskans historia: Från siukwakterska till omvårdnadsdoktor. (The nurses’ history, from keeping the sick towards PhD in nursing). Stockholm: Liber; 1997.
Götlind A. Sjuksköterskornas hus. (The nurses house). Stockholm: Svensk sjuksköterskeförening; 2013. www.swenurse.se.
Rinell Hermansson A. Från omvårdnadsforskning till vårdvetenskap. (From nursing research to health care science). Socialmedicinsk tidskrift. 2010;5–6:386–96.
Pålsson A-M. Skatt är politik – inte ekonomi. (Tax is politics – not economics. 2015;43(3). https://www.nationalekonomi.se/sites/default/files/NEFfiler/43-3-amp.pdf.
Lundqvist Å. Familjens kris Fem decennier av svensk familjepolitik (The family crise, five decades of Swedish family policy). Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. 2008;1:79–93.
DS 2001:57 Familjepolitiken (The Family Policy), 205–294. www.riksdagen.se/.../departementsserien/ds-2001-57-d2GPB457d2.
Schermer IG. Kvinnor på arbetsmarknaden (Women in the workforce). Ekonomifakta. 2017. www.ekonomifakta.se/fakta/arbetsmarknad/jamstalldhet/kvinnor-pa-arbetsmarknaden.
Proposition 1975:9 Regeringens proposition om reformering av högskoleutbildningen (1975). (The government’s proposition 1975:9 about reforming higher education). Stockholm.
Östlinder G. Omvårdnadsforskningens utveckling i Sverige – från 1970-2000. (The development of nursing science in Sweden – from 1970 – 2000). In: Hamrin E, Kihlgren M, Rinell Hermansson A, Östlinder G, editors. När omvårdnad blev vetenskap, (When nursing became science). Stockholm: Liber; 2014.
Sörlin S. “I Den absoluta frontlinjen”. En bok om forskningsstiftelsernas konkurrenskraft och politikens möjligheter. (In the absolute frontline. A book about the funding bodies power for competition and about the possibilities of politics). Nora: Nya Doxa; 2005.
Svensk författningssamling. Högskoleförordning 1993:100. (the higher education ordinance) Stockholm: Utbildningsdepartementet; 1993.
Svensk författningssamling. Högskolelag 1992:1434. Stockholm: Utbildningsdepartementet (the law of higher education); 1992.
Stig K, Lutz IP. Financing of health care in the Nordic countries. Sweden, Copenhagen: The National Board of Health and Welfare; 2013.
Svensk författningssamling. Patientsäkerhetslagen 2010:659. Stockholm: Socialdepartementet. (Patient Safety Law); 2010.
Svensk författningssamling. Hälso- och sjukvårdslag 2017:30. Stockholm: Socialdepartementet. (The Health care law); 2017.
Svensk författningssamling. Patientlagen 2014:821. Stockholm: Socialdepartementet (The patient law); 2014.
Aiken LH, Van den Heede K. Nursing workforce a global priority area for health policy and health services research: a special issue. Int J Nurs Stud. 2013;50(2):141–2.
Kirwan M, Matthews A, Scott AP. The impact of the work environment of nurses on patient safety outcomes: a multi-level modelling approach. Int J Nurs Stud. 2013;50(2):253–63.
Heyman I. Gånge hatt till, Omvårdnadsforskningens framväxt i Sverige – sjuksköterskors avhandlingar 1974–1991 (The emergence of nursing research in Sweden. Doctoral theses written by nurses 1974-1991). Göteborg: Daidalos; 1995.
Universitet & Högskolor, Årsrapport 2017. (Universities and University colleges. Annual report 2017) Ed Kahlroth, M.,Gribbe, J. Report 2017:8. Växjö 2017. www.UKA.se.
The National Board of Health and Welfare. Nationella Planeringsstödet 2017. 2017-2-21. (The national support plan) www.socialstyrelsen.se.
Lopez V. Implementing evidence-based practice to develop nursing curriculum. Nurs Pract Today. 2015;2(3):85–7.
Hallberg IR. Moving nursing research forward towards a stronger impact on health care practice. Int J Nurs Stud. 2009;46(4):407–12.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Hallberg, I.R. (2019). Nursing Science in Sweden: Internal and External Forces Contributing to Its Development. In: Hafsteinsdóttir, T., Jónsdóttir, H., Kirkevold, M., Leino-Kilpi, H., Lomborg, K., Rahm Hallberg, I. (eds) Leadership in Nursing: Experiences from the European Nordic Countries. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10964-6_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10964-6_18
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-10963-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-10964-6
eBook Packages: MedicineMedicine (R0)