Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness
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Fakultet for lærerutdanning og kunst- og kulturfag
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Before I became the leader for Centre for Sámi and Indigenous studies i August 2023, I worked as an associate professor at the bachelor programme of nursing at the faculty of Nursing and Health Sciences for many years. I have a PhD in Nursing Science from Mid Sweden University, focusing on home healthcare services in Saepmie for the South Sámi population. I have also worked many years as a psychiatric nurse in Namsos municipality. In addition, I have education in leadership and human management, pedagogy, rehabilitation and guidance.
South Sámi areas. Healthcare services. Sámi and Indigenous population, experieces and expectations, Older South Sámi,
Sámi healthcare staff, wellbeing, lived experiece of colonisation.
2025
Møter mellom helsepersonell og samiske pasienter og brukere av helsetjenester Samisk helse- og kulturforståelse i praksis 2025 - Grete Mehus, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Janne Isaksen Engnes, Berit Andersdatter Bongo, Nina Sivertsen
Patient Participation in Home Care: A
Longitudinal Exploration of Experiencing,
Refraining, and Losing Involvement. 2025 Sage Open Nursing - Ove Hellzén, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Kari Ingstad, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen, Siri Andreassen Devik
What is known about Indigenous women’s dissatisfaction of Birthing experiences in mainstream maternity hospitals in Australia, Aotearoa, Canada, US, Kalaallit Nunaat and Sápmi? A systematic scoping review 2025 Frontiers in Public Health - Nina Sivertsen, Tahlia Johnson, Grete Mehus, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Susan Smith, Josephine McGill
2024
Adapting to home care in Norway: A longitudinal case study of older Adults' experiences 2024 Journal of Aging Studies - Ove Hellzén, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Kari Ingstad, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen, Ann Marie Nissen, Siri Andreassen Devik
A mixed methods autoethnographic theater: Extending pedagogy and research through the development of a Sámi land acknowledgment 2024 Journal of Mixed Methods Studies (JOMES) - Anna CohenMiller, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Rosemary Kate Martin
"Sometimes I Get So Extremely Tired":Sámi Healthcare Staff Experiences of Cultural Load in Practice. 2024 Global Qualitative Nursing Research - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Grete Mehus
Kontinuitet i hjemmebaserte tjenester- idealer og realiteter Heltidskultur. Strategisk bemanningsplanlegging for fremtidens helse og omsorgstjeneste 2024 - Kari Ingstad, Mette Spliid Ludvigsen, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Ove Hellzén, Ann Marie Nissen, Siri Andreassen Devik
Sámi Healthcare Staff Experiences of Encounters with Sámi Patients and Their Expectations for Non-Sámi Healthcare Staff 2024 Nursing Reports - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Grete Mehus
Hopeful, but Worried for the Future: An Analysis of the Lived Consequences of Colonisation as Narrated by Older South Sámi in Norway 2024 Societies - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Mai Camilla Munkejord
2023
“We Tried to Take Care of Her, but it Got Too Exhausting”: A Study of the Transition From Family Carer to Employer 2023 Global Qualitative Nursing Research - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Wasiq Silan
2021
‘We are all interdependent’. A study of relationships between migrant live-in carers and employers in Taiwan 2021 Global Qualitative Nursing Research - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Wasiq I-An Gao Silan
Older South Sami women and men's expectations regarding home healthcare in Sweden 2021 Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Siv Söderberg, Ove Hellzén
“This Life is Normal for Me”: A Study of Everyday Life Experiences and Coping Strategies of Live-in Carers in Taiwan 2021 Journal of gerontological social work - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, I-An Wasiq Silan Gao
2019
‘Contradictions in having care providers with a South Sami background who speak South Sami’: older South Sami People in Sweden's expectations of home nursing care 2019 Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Siv Söderberg, Ove Hellzen, Ove Hellzén
'The same care providers over time who make individual adjustments and have competence' Older South Sami People in Sweden's expectations of home nursing care 2019 Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Siv Söderberg, Ove Hellzen
2015
The experience of nurses providing home nursing care to oldest old persons living alone in rural areas - an interview study 2015 Open Journal of Nursing - Tove Mentsen Ness, Per Ove Hellzèn, Ingela Enmarker
2014
‘Struggling for independence’; the meanings of being an oldest old man in rural areas. Interpretation of oldest old men’s narrations 2014 International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - Tove Mentsen Ness, Per Ove Hellzèn, Ingela Enmarker
"embracing the present and fearing the future,": The meaning of being an oldest old woman in a rural area 2014 International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being - Tove Mentsen Ness, Per Ove Hellzèn, Ingela Enmarker
2013
Experiences of being old and receiving home nursing care. Older South Sami narrations of their experiences - An interview study 2013 Open Journal of Nursing - Tove Mentsen Ness, Ingela Enmarker, Ove Hellzén, Per Ove Hellzèn
2023
How to discuss results in research? 2023 NNDR konferanse (Nordic Network on Disability Research) - Gunn Eva Solum Myren, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Tine Gladsø, Caroline Larsen, May Østby
Co-creating a research course for persons with intellectual disabilities in Norway an inclusive research project. This poster is part of «Research course for persons with intellectual disabilities” in Norway No. 1 2023 NNDR 16th Research Conference. Nordic Network on Disability Research - May Østby, Hege Bakken, Petter Bjørkmo, Lisa Malin Kleven Fløan, Jeanette Fjermestad, Tine Gladsø, Even Grepperud, Linda Grepperud, Mette Tindvik Hansen, Camilla Hopen, Hilde Haaland, Iver Valved Korsvik, Gerd Hilde Lunde, Kari Megrund, Anders Midtsundstad, S Myklebost, Gunn Eva Solum Myren, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Ole Magnus Oterhals, Peter Paluga, Sylvia Aasen, Britt-Evy Westergård, Aud Elisabeth Witsø, Ingrid Krohn Aasgård
2022
Opplevelser fra fysisk gjennomføring av forskerkurs for mennesker med utviklingshemming 2022 SOR rapport - Gunn Eva Solum Myren, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Tine Gladsø, Lisa Malin Kleven Fløan
Coming of age in indigenous societies 2022 26th Nordic Congress of Gerontology - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Jan-Erik Henriksen, June Brita Eira, Anne Giæver, Grete Mehus, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Susanne Hætta, Wasig Silan
2021
Forskerkurs for personer med utviklingshemming 2021 Fagdag i regi Statsforvalteren - Gunn Eva Solum Myren, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Tine Gladsø, Lisa Malin Kleven Fløan
Coming of age in indigenous societies - lansering av FOTOBOK og digital fotoutstilling - laget og presentert i samarbeid med Susanne Hætta 2021 Boklansering av Fotobok og digital fotoutstilling - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Jan Erik Henriksen, June Brita Eira, Grete Mehus, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Wasiq Silan
All I want is to be accepted. A presentation of preliminary findings of healthcare encounters from the perspective of older Sámi 2021 Digital Seminar with Scientific Committee of SAMICARE - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Mai Camilla Munkejord
Connecting to nature, reindeers and family: preliminary findings from a photovoice study on South Sami older people 2021 Virtual NKG 25 Nordic Congress of Gerontology - Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Mai Camilla Munkejord
Coming of age in indigenous societies 2021 - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Susanne Hætta, June Brita Eira, Anne Giæver, Jan Erik Henriksen, Grete Mehus, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Wasiq I-An Gao Silan
We are interdependent - a short presentation of study of live-in carers and their relationships to employers in Taiwan 2021 Transforming Care Conference - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, I-An Wasiq Silan Gao
Alt jeg ønsker er at de skal akseptere at jeg er same. En analyse av eldre sørsamer opplevelser av helsetjenester. 2021 Forskningsseminar - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness
A Study of Relationships between Migrant Live-in Carers and Employers in Taiwan 2021 Tjenesteforsk - seminarrekke - Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, I-An Gao
'We Are All Interdependent' A Study of Relationships between Migrant Live-in Carers and Employers in Taiwan 2021 Forskningsseminar - Wasiq Silan, Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness
Care in Indigenous Community in Taiwan- 'We Are All Interdependent' A Study of Relationships between Migrant Live-in Carers and Employers in Taiwan 2021 Gjesteforelesning / forskningsseminar - Wasiq Silan, Mai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness
2018
Ivaretakelse av brukermedvirkning for personer med utviklingshemming i et forskningsprosjekt 2018 NNFF 8. Forskningskonferanse - Anita Berg, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness
2017
Fall og pasientsikkerhet blant eldre i kommunene – En oppsummering av kunnskap 2017 - Rose Mari Olsen, Tove Synnøve Mentsen Ness, Siri Andreassen Devik
2011
Eldre sørsamers opplevelse av å være gammel 2011 - Tove Mentsen Ness, Ove Hellzen
2008