Liv Bjørnhaug Johansen is a nurse, author and political advisor. She has written the book Den lange vakten (The Long and Never-ending Shift) which is a story from within the health service where she worked as a nurse at a hospital when the pandemic started in March 2020. At the same time Johansen was a part-time employee in the journal Sykepleien (Nursing) and used her experience and network from both the municipal health service and the hospital. In her articles, she describes how it felt to be in the front line when the patients came and the infection control regimes took over.