Tove Mentsen Ness

Biographic Data

ID6535169
NAMETove Mentsen Ness
GIVEN NAMESTove Mentsen
FAMILY NAMENess
SIGNATURENESS T M
AFFILIATIONSNord University
ORCID0000-0002-2124-5387
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT5
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX1

  • Sometimes I Get So Extremely Tired”: Sámi Healthcare Staff Experiences of Cultural Load in Practice

    Open AccessTove Mentsen Ness, Grete MehusARTICLEGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research2024

    The study aim was to explore how Sámi healthcare staff experience working as an ethnic minority in the Norwegian healthcare system. This was a qualitative focus group and individual interview study inspired by interpretive description, with 14 participants. The results indicate that Sámi healthcare staff experience various degrees of cultural load in their jobs. This was shown through the two themes: "Feeling responsible for Sámi patients and non…

  • Hopeful, but Worried for the Future: An Analysis of the Lived Consequences of Colonisation as Narrated by Older South Sámi in Norway

    Open AccessTove Mentsen Ness, Mai Camilla MunkejordARTICLESocieties2024References: 11

    Various forms of colonisation and discrimination processes are unfortunately common to Indigenous Peoples worldwide. In this article, the focus is the lived consequences of colonisation in the Norwegian part of Sápmi (the Sámi traditional lands), where systematic state-imposed colonisation officially ended decades ago. Thus, based on a thematic analysis of qualitative in-depth interviews with 12 South Sámi aged 67–84, the aim was to examine how s…

  • Adapting to home care in Norway: A longitudinal case study of older Adults' experiences

    Open AccessOve Hellzén, Tove Mentsen Ness et al.ARTICLEJournal of Aging Studies2024Cited by: 1References: 4

    This study aimed to describe how older adults with complex health problems manage their everyday lives in their own homes and how they interact with given home care. In this multiple-case study, a total of 14 individual interviews were conducted with five older adults over the course of one year. Deductive and inductive content analyses were performed. Three descriptive categories were each identified in the deductive ('home care as interpersonal…

  • We Tried to Take Care of Her, but it Got Too Exhausting”: A Study of the Transition From Family Carer to Employer

    Open AccessTove Mentsen Ness, Wasiq SilanARTICLEGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research2023

    In Taiwan an increasing number of families are employing live-in carers from abroad to cope with care responsibilities, including the Indigenous Tayal. The aim of this research was to understand the transition from Indigenous family carer to employer with older family members who have extensive care needs. Six Indigenous employers were interviewed, and a narrative hermeneutic analysis was performed. The Tayal caregivers' cases revealed that their…

  • We are All Interdependent’. A Study of Relationships Between Migrant Live-In Carers and Employers in Taiwan

    Open AccessMai Camilla Munkejord, Tove Mentsen Ness et al.ARTICLEGlobal Qualitative Nursing Research2021

    For the past three decades, to meet the increasing need for long-term care, the Taiwanese government's primary approach has been to import migrant care workers. In this article, we analyse qualitative interview data produced in an Indigenous community. Drawing on Kittay's feminist dependency theory, we explore the interrelationships and collaborative efforts between live-in carers and their employers. Three types of relationships were identified:…