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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- LGBTQ+ Students’ Experiences of Junior High School Nursing in Finland: A Qualitative Study (2020)
- Journal of School Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Motor Performance in Children Diagnosed with Cancer: A Longitudinal Observational Study (2020)
- Children
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Neljävuotiaan lapsen osallistuminen elintapakeskusteluun perheen laajassa terveystarkastuksessa (2020)
- Sosiaalilääketieteellinen Aikakauslehti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Potilaiden näkemykset unta häiritsevistä ja edistävistä tekijöistä sairaalan vuodeosastolla (2020)
- Tutkiva Hoitotyö
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Prospective Study Evaluating a Pain Assessment Tool in a Postoperative Environment: Protocol for Algorithm Testing and Enhancement (2020)
- JMIR Research Protocols
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Sairaanhoitajien näkemyksiä älyteknologian käytöstä tehohoitopotilaiden kivunarvioinnissa (2020)
- Hoitotiede
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Semantic clustering to augment qualitative content analysis in exploring reasons for emergency department transfer delays (2020)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Supporting the use of standardized nursing terminologies with automatic subject heading prediction: a comparison of sentence-level text classification methods (2020)
- Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Association between the Preference for Active Play and Neurological Development in Toddlers: A Register-Based Study (2020)
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The effect of a new perioperative practice model on length of hospital stay and on the surgical care process in patients undergoing hip and knee arthroplasty under spinal anesthesia: a randomized clinical trial (2020)
- BMC Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The Use of Gaming in Healthcare (2020) Developing and Utilizing Digital Technology in Healthcare for Assessment and Monitoring Pakarinen Anni, Salanterä Sanna
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Tiimityöskentelytaitojen merkitys elvytystoiminnassa (2020)
- Tehohoito
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Towards automated detection of psychosocial risk factors with text mining (2020)
- Occupational Medicine
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Two sides of the same well-child visit: Analysis of nurses' and families' perspectives on empowerment in health counselling (2020)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Using Internet of Things in healthcare (2020) Developing and Utilizing Digital Technology in Healthcare for Assessment and Monitoring Riitta Mieronkoski, Sanna Salanterä
(A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book) - Acute pain intensity monitoring with the classification of multiple physiological parameters (2019)
- Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - An Unsupervised Query Rewriting Approach Using N-gram Co-occurrence Statistics to Find Similar Phrases in Large Text Corpora (2019)
- Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Associations Between Daytime Sleepiness, Psychological Symptoms, Headache, and Abdominal Pain in Schoolchildren (2019)
- Journal of School Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - A Typology of Breastfeeding Mothers of Preterm Infants: A Qualitative Analysis (2019)
- Advances in Neonatal Care
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Changes in the amount of sleep and daytime sleepiness: A follow-up study of schoolchildren from ages 10 to 15 years (2019)
- International Journal of Nursing Practice
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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