Mikaela Ridelberg

Mikaela Ridelberg serves as Head of Department/Division and Associate Professor of Nursing at the School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde. Her work focuses on patient safety, nursing education, and healthcare systems improvement within the Swedish context.

Her primary research interests include:

• Patient safety culture and systems
• Nursing education and clinical training
• Healthcare quality improvement
• Healthcare-associated infections prevention
• Organizational factors affecting healthcare quality
• Data-driven approaches to healthcare improvement

Dr. Ridelberg's publication record shows a consistent trajectory from descriptive analysis of safety issues toward actionable strategies for improvement. Her work spans from analyzing annual patient safety reports (2012-2016) to examining the impact of crises like the COVID-19 pandemic on nursing education (2025). She has established herself as a key researcher in understanding how safety systems function within the Swedish healthcare context.

Her doctoral thesis from 2016, 'Towards safer care in Sweden?: Studies of influences on patient safety,' represents a significant contribution to the field, followed by numerous articles that have shaped patient safety discourse in Sweden.