Helga Bragadóttir RN, PhD, FAAN
Professor and Chair Nursing Administration,
University of Iceland
Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery
Helga Bragadóttir, RN, PhD, FAAN, is Dean, Professor and Chair Nursing Administration, at the University of Iceland Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery. Her area of research is work and work environment of nurses, safety and quality of care and use of technology in health care. In the past decade she has led studies on the work of nurses in acute care, missed nursing care and nursing teamwork in close collaboration with Dr. Beatrice J. Kalisch and other scholars internationally. Her main teaching area is nursing administration and leadership in health care. Dr. Bragadóttir has been active in international research and development projects as well as teaching and is with Dr. Teddie Potter Professor at the University of Minnesota a pioneer in collaborative on-line international learning (COIL) in health sciences. She has served on several committees and boards within nursing and health care, such as ethics committees, national working groups for Icelandic authorities and organizational committees and teams. Her publications are on quality of care, nurses’ work, staff and patient satisfaction and COIL. She holds a joint position at Landspítali University Hospital where she primarily works with nurse administrators and leaders on the development of nursing services, safety, and quality improvements.