Susanne Kean

Research Fellow
Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine
The University of Edinburgh
United Kingdom

Scientist Anesthesiology
Biography

Susanne is a Research fellow based in the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Susanne qualified as a nurse in 1983 in Marburg (Germany) and worked in surgical wards at the University Hospital Zürich (Switzerland) and the University Hospital Kiel (Germany) before moving into intensive care nursing. In 1991 she qualified with a Diploma in Nursing Management & Education and held senior positions in both areas. In 1998 Susanne graduated with an MSc in Nursing and Health Studies from the University of Edinburgh and worked as a research assistant before commencing her PhD. Susanne’s PhD research examined the experiences of families in intensive care and nurses’ perceptions of families in this environment. Between February 2008 and January 2009 she held an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Research Intrest

Aspects of critical illness and recovery of ICU survivors and their families from critical illness. A further dimension in this broad remit is the care interface between the acute and primary health care

List of Publications
Die Entwicklung von Theory in Grounded Theory
Increased Hospital-Based Physical Rehabilitation and Information Provision After Intensive Care Unit Discharge : The RECOVER Randomized Clinical Trial
Patient, family-centred care interventions within the adult ICU setting : An integrative review
A family intervention to reduce delirium in hospitalised ICU patients : A feasibility randomised controlled trial
Intensive care unit survivorship - a constructivist grounded theory of surviving critical illness