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
- Information systems in hospitals: a review article from a nursing management perspective (2013)
- International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
- Information Utilization in Tactical Decision Making of Middle Management Health Managers (2013)
- CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
- Kivun hoitotyön suosituksen hyödyntäminen anestesiahoitajan työssä (2013)
- Spirium
- Lapsen osallistumisen ja osallisuuden tukeminen neuvolassa (2013)
- Terveydenhoitaja
- National survey focusing on the crucial information needs of intensive care charge nurses and intensivists: same goal, different demands (2013)
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- New Nordic Roadmap for Welfare Technology (2013) Faaborg DO, Mathiassen N-E, Debess J, Bengtsen N, Danielsson-Ojala R, Westerlund T, Kontio E, Salanterä S, Kauhanen L, Nilsson I, Sandlund M, Jentoft R, Obstfelder A, Bangshaab J, Klove JC, Hartvig B, Mörtberg Backlund M., Lahtiranta J.
- Nursing Student Control Over Using a Computer Simulation Program About Empowering Discourse (2013)
- CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing
- Perusterveydenhuollon sairaan- ja terveydenhoitajien näkemykset selkäkivun hoitoprosessista (2013)
- Kipuviesti
- Statistical Parsing of Varieties of Clinical Finnish (2013) Proceedings of the 4th International Louhi Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi 2013) Laippala V, Viljanen T, Airola A, Nyblom J, Salanterä S, Salakoski T, Ginter F
- The association between physicians’ attitudes to psychosocial aspects of low back pain and reported clinical behaviour: A complex issue (2013)
- Scandinavian Journal of Pain
- Using cluster analysis to identify weak signals of lethal trends in aviation and healthcare documentation. (2013)
- International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
- Validation of the core elements of perioperative nursing (2013)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
- VAP:n ehkäisyä tukeva suunhoito – näyttöön perustuva mallisivu potilastietojärjestelmään (2013)
- Tehohoito
- Vocabulary in Discharge Summaries – The Patients’ and the Nurses’ Perspective (2013) Proceedings of the 4th International Louhi Workshop on Health Document Text Mining and Information Analysis (Louhi 2013) Laippala V, Danielsson-Ojala R, Aantaa K, Lundgrén-Laine H, Salakoski T, Salanterä S.
- Young Registered Nurses' Intention to Leave the Profession and Professional Turnover in Early Career: A Qualitative Case Study (2013)
- ISRN Nursing
- Äidit keskoslasten kivunlievittäjinä (Mothers alleviating preterm infant pain) (2012)
- Tutkiva Hoitotyö
- Ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients' emotions when using different patient education methods (2012) Heikkinen K, Salanterä S, Leppänen T, Vahlberg T, Leino-Kilpi H
- Ambulatory Orthopaedic Surgery Patients' Knowledge with Internet-based Education (2012)
- Methods of Information in Medicine
- An Ontology to Improve Accessibility and Quality of Patient Instructions (2012) Proceedings of CLEF 2012 Evaluation Labs and Workshop Juho Heimonen, Tapio Salakoski, Sanna Salanterä
- Asenteet kivun hoidossa (2012)
- Kipuviesti



