Frida Smith, a specialist nurse in oncology and PhD student at the Centre for Person-Centred Care at University of Gothenburg, receives the 2014 doctoral fellowship from the Swedish Society of Nursing. She receives the scholarship in fierce competition with 30 other applicants.
Frida Smith’s project is called “Person-centered information and communication in colorectal cancer (PINCORE)” and provides the conditions for patients and closely related partnerships in health care.
How does it feel to receive the award?
– I am very pleased and honored that the work we do also is seen by others as important and of high quality.
What happens next?
– I’m working on with my thesis to be completed in May 2016. Right now I am taking a course in action research and we are also both implementing and evaluating our intervention in the three study hospitals.
What do you hope to achieve with your research?
– I hope that it can help patients and families to become more prepared for surgery and recover when they got colorectal cancer. And they are seen more as a partner in care, both by us and by themselves.
