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Annette Nygård serves as Associate Professor of Nursing and Assistant Professor of Leadership and Organization in Healthcare at the University of Borås within the Academy of Care, Working Life and Welfare and Department of Working Life and Welfare. As a registered nurse with specialist anesthesia training and extensive academic leadership experience, she bridges clinical practice with scholarly work to advance healthcare systems.
Her educational foundation includes specialized anesthesia training and doctoral research culminating in the 2013 dissertation A quality improvement project on empowerment in chronic kidney care: an interactive research approach. This work established her commitment to patient-centered methodologies through interactive research designs that strengthen empowerment of patients and families.
Dr. Nygård's research program targets clinically relevant quality improvements across individual and structural levels, with core concepts including empowerment, person-centered care, self-care, and e-health. Her work actively investigates healthcare policy implementation across organizational tiers while developing practical frameworks for sustainable care transformation through improvement knowledge and leadership education.
She supervises doctoral researchers including Johanna Falck from Jönköping University's School of Health, extending her mentorship beyond institutional boundaries to cultivate next-generation healthcare scholars focused on patient-centered innovation.
