Associate Professor

Merete Røineland Benestad

Field of work

Paediatric Nurse with clinical experience from different clinical paediatric fields. Now Associate Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. MSc 2018 “Self-reported health in adolescents with exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction”.

PhD 2024 “Health-related quality of life and mental health after extreme preterm birth”.



Courses taught

  • Pediatric nursing 
  • Communication to children and youth
  • Teamwork and health education


Research areas

  • Health-related quality of life
  • PROMS
  • extreme preterm birth
  • Hospital-managed home-care programe


Research groups

Courses taught
  • ANE510, Anaesthetist Nursing. Quality, Patient Safety, and Clinical Governance , Fall 2025
  • BARN510, Paediatric Nursing as Discipline, Profession and Organization, Fall 2025, subject responsible
  • BARN511, Physiology, Patophysiology, Pharmacology, and Paediatric Medicine in Paediatric Nursing, Fall 2025
  • BARN512, Cooperation, Clinical Governance, Evidence Based Practice and Health Pedagogics in Paediatric Nursing, Spring 2026
  • BARN512, Cooperation, Clinical Governance, Evidence Based Practice and Health Pedagogics in Paediatric Nursing, Fall 2025, subject responsible
  • BARNP513, Patient Safety, Technology, and Digital Competence in Paediatric Nursing Practice, Spring 2026, subject responsible
  • INT510, Critical Care Nursing as Disipline and Profession, Fall 2025
  • INT512, Clinical Observation, Assessment, Decision Making and Executive Competence in Critical Care Nursing, Fall 2025
  • MAMET1ABIO, Philosophy of Science, Ethics and Research Methods, Spring 2026
  • OPR510, Operating Room Nursing - as Profetion, Fall 2025
  • OPR512, Operating Room Nursing, Hygiena and Surgery, Fall 2025
  • SPE590, Master’s Thesis, Spring 2026
  • SPE590, Master’s Thesis, Fall 2025
  • SYKB390, Bachelor thesis, Fall 2025
  • SYKB390, Bachelor thesis, Spring 2026

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