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 |
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
- A Comparison Between a Resuscitation Glove and Standard Manual Compressions on the Quality of Cardiovascular Resuscitation (2025)
- Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
- Infection prevention knowledge related to central line infections and ventilator-associated pneumonias: A survey of Finnish intensive care units (2025)
- American Journal of Infection Control
- Multimodal Pain Recognition in Postoperative Patients: Machine Learning Approach (2025)
- JMIR Formative Research
- Potilastiedon kirjaaminen, generatiivinen tekoäly ja suuret kielimallit (2025)
- Turun Sanomat
- Sleep promotion appearing in nursing documentations – a descriptive study (2025)
- Nordic Journal of Nursing Research
- The Quality of Fundamental Care as Perceived by Nurses and Patients in a Hospital Setting: A Descriptive Comparative Study (2025)
- Nursing Open
- Uudenlaista vaikuttavuusyhteistyötä Varsinais-Suomessa (2025)
- Turun Sanomat
- Anxiety and care experiences in adolescents with chronic health conditions: an international, longitudinal study across the transfer of care (2024)
- BMJ Paediatrics Open
- A Proof-of-Concept Study on Smart Gloves for Real-Time Chest Compression Performance Monitoring (2024)
- IEEE Access
- Effectiveness of a Digital Health Game Intervention on Early Adolescent Smoking Refusal Self-Efficacy (2024)
- Health Education and Behavior
- Exploring the Documentation of Delirium in Patients After Cardiac Surgery: A Retrospective Patient Record Study (2024)
- CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
- Improving hand hygiene of young children with a digital intervention: a cluster-randomised controlled field trial (2024)
- Scientific Reports
- Kivun hoitotyön osaajat (2024)
- Sairaanhoitaja
- Laadullinen vignette tutkimusmenetelmänä monialaisen yhteistyöosaamisen arvioimisessa sote-alan monialaisessa koulutuksessa (2024)
- Hoitotiede
- Nurses and the disabled child's perspective in the anaesthesia procedure preparation process using a picture schedule (2024)
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
- User Needs and Factors Associated With the Acceptability of Audiovisual Feedback Devices for Chest Compression Monitoring in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (2024)
- CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
- Varahenkilöstön käytön yhteys vaaratapahtumiin vuodeosastohoidossa : retrospektiivinen rekisteritutkimus (2024)
- Tutkiva Hoitotyö
- Accessible mental well-being intervention for adolescents in school settings: a single-group intervention study using a pretest-post-test design (2023)
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health
- Action research on promoting hand hygiene practices in an intensive care unit (2023)
- Nursing Open
- Hand hygiene of kindergarten children—Understanding the effect of live feedback on handwashing behaviour, self-efficacy, and motivation of young children: Protocol for a multi-arm cluster randomized controlled trial (2023)
- PLoS ONE
