10/14/25 Journal Club (via Zoom) - Exploring Hermeneutical Interpretation to Develop a Theoretical Model in Caring Science

Dr. Margareta Karlsson lives in Western Sweden and is an Associate Professor in Caring Science at University West. Dr. Karlsson is a specialist nurse in Primary Health Care and Oncology Care. She is an educator and mainly teaches at advanced level in the specialist nursing program with a focus on advanced home care, care of older people and palliative care. She also supervises and examines master’s degrees projects. Dr. Karlsson completed her doctoral study in caring science at Abo Academy University in Finland. Her dissertation focused on becoming as human being and health care provider in end-of-life care from a caritative caring perspective. Her research focus is mainly palliative care with a special focus on health care providers and care of older people in municipal care. The theoretical perspective of Dr. Karlsson’s research is caring science and in the perspective of Eriksson’s theory of caritative caring.

Dr. Anne Kasén is a professor at the Faculty of Nursing and Health Science at Nord University in Bodö, Norway. Dr. Kasén is RN with specialization in psychiatric nursing care. The perspective of her PhD. is caring science and she worked at the Department of Caring Science, Åbo Akademi University in Finland, teaching caring science at all academic levels during 1994- 2014. From 2015 and ongoing Dr Kasén is working at Nord university in Norway with a focus on teaching, supervising and examination in caring and nursing science and research methods at the master and PhD level. Dr. Kasén’s research focus is on hermeneutical conceptdetermination and building theory within caring science from the theoretical perspective of Eriksson’s theory of caritative caring.