Marita Ritmala-Castren
PhD, RN
maritm@utu.fi ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1043-7383 |
Sleep; adult critical care; Magnet Hospital
I work in Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) in Nursing Administration as a Magnet Program Director. In my job I help to develop excellent leadership, autonomy and job satisfaction in nursing and excellent patient care results.
My doctoral thesis in 2015 I studied ICU patients' sleep evaluation and quality. The results confirmed earlier research sleep being of poor quality. Now as a post-doc researcher I'm developing and testing a Patient centred sleep support model.
I have worked as an RN in adult critical care for 21 years and as an advanced practice nurse for 15 years prior to my present MPD position.
I have developed a Patient Centred Sleep Support Model. It consists of a sleep interview and care plan for patient and work shops for nurses where general collective sleep support methods are developed.
I'm also developing a Finnish ICU knowledge test together with PhD Riitta-Liisa Lakanmaa and PhD-student Mika Alastalo.
I have taught critical care nursing largely in Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) and Metropolia Polytechnic. I have lead the development of two different critical care nursing educational programs, one for nurse beginners and one for proficient ICU nurses. Both have included lecturing, work shops, evaluating and further developing the programs. Both programs received national recognition and a reward.
In my present position as an MPD I lecture about the Magnet hospital and manage several groups which develop nursing care in HUS according to the Magnet hospital model.
- Potilaiden kokemuksia unta tukevista hoitotyön toiminnoista sairaalan vuodeosastolla (2023)
- Hoitotiede
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The effect of nurse-led empowering education on nutrition impact side effects in patients with colorectal cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A randomised trial (2023)
- Patient Education and Counseling
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Investigating the construct and concurrent validity of the Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire with intensive care unit patients and home sleepers (2022)
- Australian Critical Care
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Laatua tehohoitotyöhön - mistä ja miten? (2022) Professori Helena Leino-Kilven juhlakirja Ritmala Marita, Alastalo Mika, Lakanmaa Riitta-Liisa, Lundgrén-Laine Heljä
(Book chapter (B2)) - Sensitivity and specificity of proposed Richards-Campbell Sleep Questionnaire cut-off scores for good quality sleep during an ICU stay (2022)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Sleep improvement intervention and its effect on patients' sleep on the ward (2022)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Suolistosyöpää sairastavan potilaan inhimillinen kohtaaminen solunsalpaajahoidon aikana (2022)
- Syöpäsairaanhoitaja
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Empowering patient education on self-care activity among patients with colorectal cancer – a research protocol for a randomised trial (2021)
- BMC Nursing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Miten tehohoitajat hallitsevat biologis-fysiologisen tiedon? (2021)
- Tehohoito
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Anaesthesia nursing competence: Self-assessment of nursing students (2020)
- Nurse Education Today
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Potilaiden näkemykset unta häiritsevistä ja edistävistä tekijöistä sairaalan vuodeosastolla (2020)
- Tutkiva Hoitotyö
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Tehohoitajan ammatillisen kehittymisen malli (2020)
- Tehohoito
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Sleep in the intensive care unit – nurses' documentation and patients' perspectives (2017)
- Nursing in Critical Care
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Teho- ja valvontahoitotyön opas (2017) Marita Ritmala-Castrén, Maarit Lönn, Heljä Lundgrén-Laine, Merja Meriläinen, Minna Peltomaa
(Editorship of a professional journal, book or conference proceedings (D6)) - Evaluation of patients' sleep by nurses in an ICU (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Yön aikainen uni ja kipu tehohoidossa potilaan arvioimana (2016)
- Hoitotiede
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Asleep or not asleep? Evaluation of the Quality of Patients’ Sleep in Critical Care Nursing (2015) Ritmala-Castrén Marita
(Doctoral dissertation (article) (G5)) - Basic Competence of Intensive Care Unit Nurses: Cross-Sectional Survey Study (2015)
- BioMed Research International
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Kipu nippuun (2015)
- Kipuviesti
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - Sleep and nursing care activities in an intensive care unit (2015)
- Nursing and Health Sciences
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1))