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Department of Palliative Care Research
Department of Health Care Sciences
Ersta Sköndal University College
Campus Ersta

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Title:	RNT, PhD, Professor
Affiliations:	Linnaeus University, Kalmar
Mobile:	+46 705 25 13 70
E-mail:	eva.benzein(at)lnu.se
Address:	Ersta Sköndal University College Box 111 89 SE-110 61 Stockholm Sweden
Visiting address:	Folkungagatan 121

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Bachelor degree 1973
Med dr 1999
Professor 2009


Research area

My research is about family nursing and palliative care


Publications

Benzein E, Hagberg M, & Saveman B-I. (2008) Being appropriately unusual: a challenge for nurses in health promoting conversations with families. Nursing Inquiry, 15, 106-115.

Benzein E & Saveman B-I. (2008) Health promoting conversations about hope and suffering with couples in palliative care. International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 14, 439-445.

Benzein E, Johansson P, Franzén K, Berg A, & Saveman B-I. (2008) Families’ Importance in Nursing Care – Nurses’ Attitudes – an instrument development. Journal of Family Nursing, 14, 97-117.

Benzein E, Johansson P, Franzén K, & Saveman B-I. (2008) Nurses’ attitudes towards families’ importance in nursing care – a random sample survey. Journal of Family Nursing, 14, 162-180.

Syrén S, Saveman B-I, & Benzein E. (2006) Being a family in the midst of living and dying. Journal of Palliative Care, 22, 26-32.

Benzein E, & Berg A. (2005) The level of and relations between hope, hopelessness and fatigue in patients in palliative care and their family members. Palliative Medicine, 19, 234-240

Benzein E, & Berg A. (2003) The Swedish version of Herth Hope Index: an instrument for palliative care. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences, 17, 409-415.


Book chapters (in Swedish)

Benzein E, Hagberg M, & Saveman B-I. (2009). Familj och sociala relationer. I Öhlén J. & Friberg F. (red). Omvårdnadens grunder. Stockholm: Studentlitteratur, s. 65-84.