Åsa Muntlin
Adjunct senior lecturer at Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper; Klinisk epidemiologi
- Telephone:
- +46 18 611 01 76
- E-mail:
- asa.muntlin@medsci.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, Ingång 40, 5 tr
751 85 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Akademiska sjukhuset, Ingång 40, 5 tr
751 85 UPPSALA
Associated Researcher at Institutionen för folkhälso- och vårdvetenskap; Hälso- och sjukvårdsforskning
- E-mail:
- asa.muntlin@pubcare.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- BMC, Husarg. 3
- Postal address:
- Box 564
751 22 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
My focus is clinical research within the field of pain management, knowledge translation, fundamentals of care, patient experiences and care processes through the lens of emergency care. I’m an Associated Professor, Registered Nurse and CNS (Emergency Care). Head of Research at the Department of Emergency Care and Internal Medicine at Uppsala University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden, but also working as a RN in the ED. I'm involved in national and international research projects.
Keywords
- acute abdominal pain
- care processes
- emergency care
- fundamentals of care
- knowledge translation
- pain managment
- patient safety
- quality of care
Biography
Research
Research areas
Health Services Research
Emergency care
Fundamentals of Care
Quality improvement
Nursing
Patient experiences
Knowledge translation
Pain management
Present research
SMAAPP research program (Seamless management of patients seeking care for acute abdominal pain - a person-centred approach). A Sweden - Australia joint research programme.
Smärtans väg i vården ‐ ett plattformsbygge för patientgenererad data om smärta [in Swedish]. (webb-based platform construction, patient-generated data)
Predicting admission in Australian and Swedish hospitals: an individualised prospective approach. Collaboration: Hospitals in Sweden and Australia
Främjande faktorer för arbetsmotivation vid en akutvårdsverksamhet. [in Swedish]. (work motivation, emergency care)
Cancer survivors experiences of the fundamentals of care. Collaboration: School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia and Department of Neurobiology, care sciences and society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Finished projects
Heel protection for pressure ulcer prevention – from ambulance to discharge. A randomized controlled trial. Collaboration with: County councils and universities in Uppsala and Varmland.
Patients with acute abdominal pain – from the emergency de-partment to the surgical ward: what makes a difference to achieve patient participation, high quality nursing care and safe care transitions? This pilot project is part of a multidisciplinary research program (SMAAPP research program) in collaboration between researchers and clinicians in Australia and in Sweden.
Teamwork in the emergency department: Efficiency, patient safety, patient satisfaction and personnel work climate (TEPPP-study). Collaboration: Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala University, Karolinska Institut/LIME and Stockholm University
The Future Shape of the Nursing Workforce: A Synthesis of the Evidence of Factors that Impact on Quality Nursing Care. Commissioned research: Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government. Collaboration: School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Nursing Futures Group and Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Governmenton Quality Nursing Care. Commissioned research: Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government. Collaboration: School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Nursing Futures Group and Department of Health and Ageing, Australian Government
Stroke survivors experiences of the fundamentals of care. Publication. Collaboration: School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia and researchers from UK.
On-site determination of breath alcohol in emergency care patients. Collaboration: Höök Instrument, Uppsala University, Uppsala University Hospital, and Södersjukhuset, Stockholm.
Fundamentals of Care & Us (FOCUS). Collaboration: School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia and Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, Adelaide, Australia
Clinical Handover - Action through Observations - CHAO study. Collaboration: School of Nursing, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia and Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
Identifying and Improving Quality of Care at an Emergency Department: Patient and healthcare professional perspectives. Doctoral student project.
Teaching
Continuously teaching in the Registered Nurse Programme and the Specialist Nurse Programme (prehospital emergency care). Supervising students for degree projects (Bachelor- and Master- level).
Miscellaneous
Award
School of Nursing Inaugural Eleanor Harrald Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of Adelaide, Australia, September 2012
Karin Olsson Scholarship, Swedish Association of Health Professionals, Sweden, 2006
Publications
Recent publications
- Factors predictive of hospital admission for children via emergency departments in Australia and Sweden (2024)
- Measuring person-centred pain management (2023)
- Testing a model for person-centred pain management (2023)
- Fundamental nursing actions for frail older people in the emergency department (2023)
- Prevalence of frailty and associated factors in older adults seeking care at Swedish emergency departments (2023)
All publications
Articles
- Factors predictive of hospital admission for children via emergency departments in Australia and Sweden (2024)
- Measuring person-centred pain management (2023)
- Testing a model for person-centred pain management (2023)
- Fundamental nursing actions for frail older people in the emergency department (2023)
- Prevalence of frailty and associated factors in older adults seeking care at Swedish emergency departments (2023)
- ‘No more heroes’ (2023)
- Bedside nurses' perspective on the fundamentals of care framework and its application in clinical practice. (2023)
- Translation and cultural adaptation of the fundamentals of care framework (2023)
- Prioritizing and meeting life-threateningly ill patients' fundamental care needs in the emergency room-An interview study with registered nurses (2022)
- Nursing staff ratio and skill mix in Swedish emergency departments (2021)
- Lessons from COVID (2021)
- Fundamentals of care in the emergency room (2021)
- Flourishing at work (2020)
- Using communication to manage missed care (2020)
- Engagement under difficult conditions (2020)
- What makes registered nurses remain in work? (2019)
- The management of patients with acute abdominal pain in the emergency department (2019)
- Providing high-quality fundamental care for patients with acute abdominal pain (2019)
- Speaking Up for Fundamental Care (2019)
- The role of PhD-prepared, hospital-based nurses (2019)
- Who is in charge of the care of patients with acute abdominal pain? An interview study with managers across the acute care chain (2019)
- Person-centred pain management for the patient with acute abdominal pain (2018)
- Towards a standardised definition for fundamental care (2018)
- Inadequate environment, resources, and values lead to missed nursing care (2018)
- Building the Foundation to Generate a Fundamental Care Standardized Data Set (2018)
- Methods, metrics and research gaps around minimum data sets for nursing practice and fundamental care (2018)
- Descriptions of fundamental care needs in cancer care (2018)
- Lack of existing guidelines for a large group of patients in Sweden (2017)
- The work is never ending (2017)
- Heel pressure ulcer, prevention and predictors during the care delivery chain - when and where to take action? (2016)
- Prevention of heel pressure ulcers among older patients - from ambulance care to hospital discharge (2016)
- Patients with acute abdominal pain describe their experiences of fundamental care across the acute care episode (2016)
- Teamwork – a way to improve patient perceptions of the quality of care in an emergency department (2016)
- Efficiency in the emergency department (2016)
- Pressure ulcer knowledge of registered nurses, assistant nurses and student nurses (2015)
- Nurses' perceptions of multitasking in the emergency department: Effective, fun and unproblematic (at least for me) (2015)
- Assessment of the breath alcohol concentration in emergency care patients with different level of consciousness (2015)
- To Receive or Not to Receive Analgesics in the Emergency Department (2015)
- Introduction of multi-professional teamwork (2014)
- Experiences of Fundamentals of Care (FOC) for people with a cancer diagnosis - striving for normality and regaining control (2014)
- Functions of behavior change interventions when implementing multi-professional teamwork at an emergency department (2014)
- Multitasking in the emergency department (2014)
- Knowledge translation in health care (2014)
- Anything but basic (2014)
- What’s my line? (2014)
- Stroke survivors’ experiences of the fundamentals of care (2013)
- Development and preliminary testing of a framework to evaluate patients' experiences of the fundamentals of care (2013)
- Effects of multidisciplinary teamwork on lead times and patient flow in the emergency department (2013)
- Outcomes of a nurse-initiated intravenous analgesic protocol for abdominal pain in an emergency department (2011)
- Hur kan vi som sjuksköterskor förbättra vården på akutmottagningar för patienter som söker för buksmärta? (2010)
- Barriers to change hindering quality improvement (2010)
- Different patient groups request different emergency care (2008)
- Patients' perceptions of quality of care at an emergency department and identification of areas for quality improvement (2006)
Books
- Fundamentals of Care (2020)
- Identifying and Improving Quality of Care at an Emergency Department (2009)