Sanna Salanterä
PhD, Professor of Clinical Nursing Science, Vice Dean
Turku University Hospital sansala@utu.fi +358 29 450 2709 +358 50 555 0567 Kiinamyllynkatu 10 Turku ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2529-6699 |
Areas of expertise
Digital Nursing, Health Technology
Nursing Decision-Making
Pain care
Digital Nursing, Health Technology
Nursing Decision-Making
Pain care
Research community or research topic
Intelligent Health
Intelligent Health
Biography
I am Professor of Clinical Nursing Science and Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and Fellow of the European Academy of Nursing Science. I co-lead a research programme Intelligent Health UTU. My ongoing research projects can be found in:
https://sites.utu.fi/nursingscienceresearchprogrammes/intelligent-health/.
Research
Currently my main research interesests are health technology and clinical nursing. Our research team "Connected Health" develops and studies gamification of health, IoT for nursing and health, symptom care, information technology to support clinical decision-making, and text mining of clinical narratives.
https://sites.utu.fi/nursingscienceresearchprogrammes/connected-health-utu/
Teaching
Leader of Clinical nursing science education
UTU Nursing Leader of joint master's programme Future health and technology between the University of Turku, Finland and Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Co-leader of research programme Connected Health, PhD-education, Co-course leader of "Clinical interventions in health technology", "From research to scientific publication", "Systematic reviews in health sciences"
Research methods, clinical nursing science, decision-making in nursing, pain care (especially assessment of acute pain), health technology
Curriculum development
Member of Educational Council and Continuous education working group, University of Turku
Publications 
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- Personal Pain Sensitivity Prediction from Ultra-short-term Resting Heart Rate Variability (2022)
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Pilot Study and Gamification Analysis of a Theory-based Exergame (2022)
- International Journal of Serious Games
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Potilasohjauksen vaikuttavuuden arviointi (2022) Professori Helena Leino-Kilven juhlakirja Rosio Riitta, Salanterä Sanna, Pakarinen Anni
(B2 Non-refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Promoting the health and wellbeing of children: A feasibility study of a digital tool among professionals (2022)
- PLoS ONE
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Randomized controlled trial comparing pit crew resuscitation model against standard advanced life support training (2022)
- Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Scoping review and concept analysis of early adolescents' emotional skills: Towards development of a music therapy assessment tool (2022)
- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Sleep improvement intervention and its effect on patients' sleep on the ward (2022)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Supporting LGBTQ+ Students: A Focus Group Study with Junior High School Nurses (2022)
- Journal of School Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Systematic review of digital interventions to support refusal self-efficacy in child and adolescent health promotion (2022)
- Health Promotion International
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Text Classification Model Explainability for Keyword Extraction - Towards Keyword-Based Summarization of Nursing Care Episodes (2022)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Using machine learning to predict subsequent events after EMS non-conveyance decisions (2022)
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A randomized clinical trial of a new perioperative practice model on anxiety and health-related quality of life in arthroplasty patients (2021)
- Nursing Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities and opportunities from an international invitational think-tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative (2021)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Getting into the Same Boat – Enabling the Realization of the Disabled Child’s Agency in Adult–Child Play Interaction (2021)
- Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - How GPs can Recognize Persistent Frequent Attenders at Finnish Primary Health Care Using Electronic Patient Records (2021)
- Journal of Primary Care and Community Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Impact of a digital care logistics system on care duration, consumer satisfaction and shift leaders’ workload in emergency departments (2021)
- Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Measuring empowerment counselling in routine primary health care: Psychometric properties of a Portuguese adaptation of the empowering speech practices scale (2021)
- Journal of Pediatric Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pain assessment tool with electrodermal activity for postoperative patients: Method validation study (2021)
- JMIR mHealth and uHealth
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Pain Recognition With Electrocardiographic Features in Postoperative Patients: Method Validation Study (2021)
- Journal of Medical Internet Research
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Perushoidon osaamisen ja toteutumisen arviointi erikoissairaanhoidon vuodeosastolla - hoitotyön opiskelijoiden ja hoitotyöntekijöiden näkökulma (2021)
- Hoitotiede
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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