Tone Vidnes

Vidnes has extensive experience working in the transplant surgery ward, Department of Transplantation Medicine, at Rikshospitalet. She came from Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm in 2003 and showed an early interest in professional development and research.

Her research career began with follow-up of individuals with colon cancer who were offered liver transplantation, resulting in a master's degree using the method of in-depth interviews.

Since 2012, Vidnes has been a clinical development nurse, and in the fall of 2019, she began her doctoral work. She has conducted a randomized controlled study to investigate whether kidney transplant recipients who are offered a health communication intervention based on motivational interviewing in addition to standard education can develop their health literacy.