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 |
Digital Nursing, Health Technology
Nursing Decision-Making
Pain care
Intelligent Health
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/.
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/
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
- Information needs in day-to-day operations management in hospital units: A cross-sectional national surveyPain process of patients with cardiac surgery — Semantic annotation of electronic patient record data (2019)
- Journal of Nursing ManagementJournal of Clinical Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Secondary use of electronic health records: Availability aspects in two Nordic countries (2019)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Potilaiden hoitoisuuteen perustuvan henkilöstöresursoinnin ja potilasturvallisuuden välinen yhteys erikoissairaanhoidon kirurgisilla vuodeosastoillaSkin Conductance Response to Gradual-Increasing Experimental Pain (2019)
- Tutkiva HoitotyöAnnual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2019)
- Health Information Management Journal
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2019)
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - The effect of an active video game intervention on physical activity, motor performance, and fatigue in children with cancer: a randomized controlled trialUnsupervised phrase-level query rewriting for assisting search in clinical free text (2019)
- BMC Research NotesWorld congress on medical and health informatics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - The nurse manager’s role in perioperative settings: An integrative literature review (2019)
- Journal of Nursing Management
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - The psychosocial self-efficacy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (2019)
- Nursing Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Evaluation of a Prototype System that Automatically Assigns Subject Headings to Nursing Narratives Using Recurrent Neural Network (2019)
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Adaptation of pain scales for parent observation: are pain scales and symptoms useful in detecting pain of young children with the suspicion of acute otitis media? (2018)
- BMC Pediatrics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Assessing managerial information needs: Modification and evaluation of the Hospital Shift Leaders' Information Needs Questionnaire (2018)
- Journal of Nursing ManagementInternational Journal of Medical Informatics
- (2018) Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Health Text Mining and Information Analysis (LOUHI 2018) Hans Moen, Kai Hakala, Laura-Maria Peltonen, Henry Suhonen, Petri Loukasmäki, Tapio Salakoski, Filip Ginter, Sanna Salanterä
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Feasibility of mobile health game “Fume” in supporting tobacco-related health literacy among early adolescents: A three-armed cluster randomized design (2018)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Improving layman readability of clinical narratives with unsupervised synonym replacement (2018)
- Medical informatics Europe
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - (2018)
- Medical informatics Europe
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Lähikuvassa hoitotyön johtaminen (2018)
- Pro terveys
(D1 Article in a professional journal) - Nursing leaders' satisfaction with information systems in the day-to-day operations management in hospital unitsOntology Development for Patient Education Documents Using a Professional- and Patient-Oriented Delphi Method (2018)
- Studies in Health Technology and InformaticsCIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Protocol for digital intervention for effective health promotion of small children—A cluster randomized trial (2018)
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - (2018)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Reliability of three linguistically and culturally validated pain assessment tools for sedated ICU patients by ICU nurses in Finland (2018)
- Scandinavian Journal of Pain
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



