PhD, Professor of Clinical Nursing Science, Vice Dean Sanna Salanterä - UTU Research Portal

Sanna Salanterä
PhD, Professor of Clinical Nursing Science, Vice Dean

- Professor,
Department of Nursing Science (Faculty of Medicine)

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

Connected health

Areas of expertise

Digital Nursing, Health Technology
Nursing Decision-Making
Pain care

Research community or research topic

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

6 of 17

Secondary use of electronic health records: Availability aspects in two Nordic countries (2019)
- Health Information Management Journal
Vikström A., Moen H., Moosavi SR, Salakoski T., Salanterä S.
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Skin Conductance Response to Gradual-Increasing Experimental Pain (2019)
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC) Syrjälä Elise, Jiang Mingzhe, Pahikkala Tapio, Salanterä Sanna, Pasi Liljeberg
(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 trial (2019)
- BMC Research Notes
Hamari L, Järvelä LS, Lähteenmäki PM, Arola M, Axelin A, Vahlberg T, Salanterä S
(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
Eriikka Siirala, Henry Suhonen, Sanna Salanterä, Kristiina Junttila
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal )
The psychosocial self-efficacy in adolescents with type 1 diabetes (2019)
- Nursing Open
Anne Survonen, Sanna Salanterä, Kirsi Näntö-Salonen, Arun K. Sigurdardottir, Riitta Suhonen
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Unsupervised phrase-level query rewriting for assisting search in clinical free text (2019)
- World congress on medical and health informatics
MEDINFO 2019: Health and Wellbeing e-Networks for All. Proceedings of the 17th World Congress on Medical and Health Informatics Moen H., Peltonen L., Suhonen H., Koivumäki M., Salakoski T., Salanterä S.
(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
Uitti JM, Salanterä S, Laine MK, Tähtinen PA, Ruohola A
(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 Management
Peltonen L-M, Lundgrén-Laine H, Siirala E, Löyttyniemi E, Aantaa R, Salanterä S.
(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 (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)
- International Journal of Medical Informatics
Heidi Parisod, Anni Pakarinen, Anna Axelin, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Jouni Smed, Sanna Salanterä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Front-line physicians' satisfaction with information systems in hospitals (2018)
- Medical informatics Europe
Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth Laura-Maria Peltonen, Kristiina Junttila, Sanna Salanterä
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Improving layman readability of clinical narratives with unsupervised synonym replacement (2018)
- Medical informatics Europe
Building Continents of Knowledge in Oceans of Data: The Future of Co-Created eHealth Moen H., Peltonen L., Koivumäki M., Suhonen H., Salakoski T., Ginter F., Salanterä S.
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Lähikuvassa hoitotyön johtaminen (2018)
- Pro terveys
Peltonen LM, Mustonen R, Salanterä S
(D1 Article in a professional journal)
Nursing leaders' satisfaction with information systems in the day-to-day operations management in hospital units (2018)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Nursing Informatics 2018 Laura-Maria Peltonen, Kristiina Junttila, Sanna Salanterä
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
Ontology Development for Patient Education Documents Using a Professional- and Patient-Oriented Delphi Method (2018)
- CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
Juho Heimonen, Riitta Danielsson-Ojala, Tapio Salakoski, Heljä Lundgren-Laine, Sanna Salanterä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Protocol for digital intervention for effective health promotion of small children—A cluster randomized trial (2018)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
Anni Pakarinen, Magda Flemmich, Heidi Parisod, Laura Selänne, Lotta Hamari, Minna Aromaa, Ville Leppänen, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Jouni Smed, Sanna Salanterä
(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
Sanna-Mari Pudas-Tähkä, Sanna Salanterä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Rescheduling nursing staff with information technology-based staffing solutions: a scoping review (2018)
- International Journal of Healthcare Technology and Management
Tuominen O, Lundgren-Laine H, Flinkman M, Boucht S, Salantera S
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
Secondary School Nurse as an information source for Finnish Sexual and Gender Minority Youth (2018)
- TUCS Lecture Notes
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Well-being in the Information Society: Fighting Inequalities (WIS 2018) Laiti Minna, Parisod Heidi, Pakarinen Anni, Sariola Salla, Salanterä Sanna
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication )
The prevalence of neck-shoulder pain, back pain and psychological symptoms in association with daytime sleepiness - a prospective follow-up study of school children aged 10 to 15 (2018)
- Scandinavian Journal of Pain
Marja-Liisa Gustafsson, Camilla Laaksonen, Minna Aromaa, Eliisa Löyttyniemi, Sanna Salanterä
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)