Angela Bång

About Angela Bång

Angela Bång, Senior lecturer and excellent teacher, R.N, and Associate professor of Caring science.

She has a PhD in cardiology. Angela has 20 years of clinical experience from medicine, cardiology and emergency medical services (Prehospital emergency care). She dissertated in 2002 with a thesis on Emergency medical dispatch and first served as clinical lecturer and researcher for the ambulance service at SU. Since 2007 as university lecturer with responsibility for a one-year master for nurses in prehospital care. Angela also has experience from leadership as previously being head of section in an institution of caring science. From 2016 Angela works as a senior lecturer at the institution och Health and Caring Science at Sahlgrenska academy, Univ. of Gothenburg.

Research

Angelas field of research is in emergency care, primarily on caring assessment of patients suffering from sepsis and acute coronary syndrome.Further reseach field is nursing students learning in clinical education.

Research team

Head supervisor new doctoral candidate; Dennis Sjösten, anesthesia- och ambulance nurse in the project: Nurses learning processes in triage at the emeregency department from a caring science- and medical perspective. Part of Gothenburg emergency research group (GEMREG), the Emergency department, Sahlgrenska university hospital.

Head supervisor for a new doctoral candidate at the Department for infectious diseases at Sahlgrenska University hospital with a project on severe infectious disease from a caring science perspective.

Angela was previously head supervisor in a doctoral research project with Kristoffer Wibring. This project was called: Development of a Prehospital Decision Support Tool - Optimisation of the prehospital triage of patients with chest pain. Dissertation December 10, 2021. The project continues : Development of decision support for optimization of the pre-hospital assessment to care at the right level of care with increased patient safety in acute chest pain.

Angela supervises a qualitative study on nursing students' resources and strategies for managing stress and anxiety related to clinical education with Catrin Ekre, senior lecturer at University West, Trollhättan.

Previous member of the Prehospital research Group at the University of Borås, and is a part of the research team at the institution of caring science at University of Gothenburg ACCT, Acute and critical care team.

Teaching

Early caring assessment and treatment of various acute conditions. Complex care and clinical nursing, Theories and methodologies in Caring science.

Clinical activity

Angela has experience from emergency cardiac care and prehospital emergency care.

Keywords

Caring assessment, triage, early suspicion, early identification, severe infection disease, sepsis, personcentered care, chest pain, prehospital emergency care, learning, clinical education