Library resources: The Faculty of Health Sciences

Library resources for students and researchers at The Faculty of Health Sciences.

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Borrow a librarian

Faculty, PhD and master students can schedule an appointment for guidance in literature search or systematic searching.

The library collection

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Databases

The library has access to many databases that give you access to literature in the field of health.

In Oria, you will find an overview of databases relevant in nursing, health sciences, substance abuse, and mental health. Some of the databases are openly available, but you need library remote access.

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Search for scientific literature

The library can help you get scientific literature.

Library remote access

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News

Gathering International Researchers at Sola

SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare at UiS is hosting Resilient Health Care Society’s summer conference at Sola ...

Organizes seminar on the future of quality and safety in healthcare

SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare is hosting an international seminar titled “The future of quality and safety...

Prestigious EU grant for Health Services Research

Researchers at the University of Stavanger have received 6 million euros from the prestigious EU research program Horizo...

Ingvil Hellstrand Wins Award for Dissemination and Societal engagement

The UiS researcher moves elegantly between equal opportunities and gender diversity, welfare and caring sciences researc...

Signe Østrem Furre is the newest member of eHealth@H2H research team

She joins the existing team of nurses who have developed and are testing the nurse assisted digital application that aim...

Reducing nurses’ workload with exoskeletons

Students and researchers at UiS are convinced that exoskeletons can be a useful aid for operating room nurses during lon...

A Care Strategy for caregivers and care receivers by the EU

During the conference “From Knowledge to Action – the role of carers is changing?” in Oslo on March 16 Stecy Yghemonos h...

Simulating the future

The Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS organized the course “Simulation-based learning in nursing education” from April 1...

Patients and families engaged in resilient healthcare systems

Patients and their families contribute to the resilience of healthcare systems. This is particularly evident as global h...

Greater focus on the role of informal caregivers

Maja Hassel, next of kin and caregiver, thinks this year’s conference theme "Caregivers - from extra work to sound invol...

Two worlds colliding: exploring the boundaries between system resilience and individual resilience

A recent webinar organised by the Resilient Health Care Network focused on the intersection of individual psychological ...

Digital national conference on informal caregivers’ challenges

The pandemic created practical difficulties in organizing the annual national caregiver conference as usual, but in retr...

New dean at the Faculty of Health Sciences

Eldar Søreide is the new dean at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Stavanger from September 5th, 2022.

The Caring Futures project on TV2 News

Researchers from “Caring Futures: Developing Care Ethics for Technology-Mediated Care Practices” were interviewed and qu...

Divergent Approaches to the Future of the Health Sector

The Caring Futures research project invited five regional participants to a panel discussion at Sølvberget Library and C...

Bringing together stakeholders in care technology

In the end of September, Health Campus Stavanger, in collaboration with the Caring Futures research project invited rese...

Calls for more international research collaboration

Professor Stephen Billett from Griffith University Australia, is involved in several of SHARE – Centre for Resilience in...

Discussing the relationality between people and technology

This is a theme of interest to both the author Cathrine Knudsen and the artist Kari Telstad Sundet. The event, Science F...

A grand opening

After a long and close collaboration, Ingvil Hellstrand (UiS) and curator Hege Tapio were able to deliver their opening ...

Award winner visited the Faculty of Health Sciences

Rosalynn Austin from the University of Southampton visited the Department of Public Health to discuss health promotion f...

The 6th International Conference on Youth Mental Health

All 10 Co-Researchers and two Researchers from SHARE attended the international youth mental health conference in Copenh...

Research meets art in new exhibition

The CARING FUTURES ART EXHIBITION takes place at Galleri Sølvberget 17 September –18 December 2022. The exhibition raise...

Gathers international researchers at the University of Stavanger

SHARE – Center for Resilience in Healthcare is hosting an international quality and safety in healthcare seminar at Ydal...

Successful funding application for 4-year project

The project will examine the mental health of indigenous and ethnic minority youth, in order to develop digital health s...

Digital home follow-up - challenges and opportunities

The research project eHealth@hospital-2-home arranged a seminar at The Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS. It was held in...

Positive feedback after digital workshop

The first digital workshop in the NORHED II project was successful, and developing simulation-based training is on sched...

Become a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Health Sciences

The Master programme in Prehospital Critical care is looking for motivated students who want to combine their studies wi...

A Norwegian project for student active simulation-based learning in higher education

Here we present a project that will substantially build on the findings of SAFETY+ and offers possibilities for future d...

Each emergency is different and requires different skills

Two medical emergencies have been outlined in this article. The SAFETY Project is about trying to understand different t...

Implementing simulation-based education in Malawi and Tanzania

The University of Stavanger has received NOK 18.7 million from Norad to implement simulation-based education in nursing...

Training app for enhancing students' clinical nursing skills

Norwegian, English, and Spanish nursing students can now use a new app when practicing practical procedures. The app aim...

Testing an eHealth service to reduce the burden of treatment

In a new project at UiS, researchers will test an eHealth solution that can strengthen the chronically ill's health-prom...

Can remote ultrasound training be as effective as standard classroom training?

How can we organize ultrasound training in a pandemic situation and across national borders? Researchers at the Universi...

UiS presents simulation app on international research conference

The University of Stavanger took part in INTED in Valencia to present the DIGISIM app, a three-year long development pro...

EU funding for new simulation course in emergency medicine

Together with nine partners, the Faculty of Health Sciences at UiS has received approximately NOK 10 million from the EU...