Associate Professor

Elisabeth Grov Beisland

Department of Health and Caring sciences
Elisabeth Grov Beisland
Tel: +47 55 58 55 82
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Bergen
BUS1, BUS1-6151
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Field of work

Teaching and supervision at  master's and PhD levels in clinical nursing, Department of Health and Care Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, campus Bergen. 

Study coordinator for Master of Science in Nursing, Clinical Specialties (Gastro, Infection & Infection Control, Pulmonary, Neurology, Urological, Stoma & Incontinence, Nursing and Clinical Forensic Medicine for Nurses) 

PhD from UiB 2015, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Clinical Medicine 1, with the thesis "Health- related Quality of Life, Distress and Psycholsocial Factors in Head and Neck and Renal Cancer Patients".

Member of StudForsk

HVL, IHO's representative in the Norwegian Network for Educational Research in Nursing (NorNERN),

Member of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)'s expert panel for the preparation of a diagnosis-specific quality of life questionnaire for kidney cancer patients.

Member of the research network LIVSFORSK

Member and deputy chair of the research group Cancer and Quality of Life

Member of the WestPaed research group Children's and Adolescent Clinic, Helse Bergen

Member of the European Association of Urological Nurses (EAUN) Scientific Congress Office (SCO) 

The main interest in my research is the patient perspective in acute, critical and chronic illness, using both qualitative and quantitative methods. 



Teaches

  • Nursing care for acute, critical and chronically ill somatic patients
  • Quantitative method
  • Qualitative method
  • Quality of life
  • Clinical practice
  • Evidence-based practice
  • PROM/PREM
  • Academic writing


Researching

  • How cancer, treatment, symptoms and psychosocial factors affect quality of life
  • Patient-reported data (PROMS)
  • Cancer patients
  • Advanced Home Hospital for Children
  • Clinical Practice for Nursing Students in a Somatic Hospital
  • Quality of life
  • Mastery
  • Kidney cancer
  • Head and throat cancer
  • Elderly cancer patients over 80 years of age
  • Fear of COVID-19 in nursing students


Research groups

Courses taught
  • MAMET1SKS, Philosophy of Science, Ethics and Research Methods, Fall 2025, subject responsible
  • MSS590, Master's Thesis, Spring 2026
  • MSU510, Clinical Urotherapy , Fall 2025
  • SPE590, Master’s Thesis, Fall 2025
  • SPE590, Master’s Thesis, Spring 2026
  • SYKB390, Bachelor thesis, Fall 2025
  • SYKB390, Bachelor thesis, Spring 2026

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