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

: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2529-6699

Connected health

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

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Machine Learning to Automate the Assignment of Diagnosis Codes to Free-text Radiology Reports: a Method Description (2008) Proceedings of the ICML/UAI workshop on Machine Learning in health care applications Suominen H, Ginter F, Pyysalo S, Airola A, Pahikkala T, Salanterä S, Salakoski T
Nurses' experiences of caring for children suffering from cancer related pain (2008)
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
Stenvall M, Salantera S
Ambulatory orthopaedic surgery patients' knowledge expectations and perceptions of received knowledge (2007)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
Heikkinen K, Leino-Kilpi H, Hiltunen A, Johansson K, Kaljonen A, Rankinen S, Virtanen H, Salantera S
Differences in child self-reported and parent assessed health of fourth grade school children (age 9-10) (2007)
- European Journal of Public Health
Laaksonen C, Aromaa M, Heinonen OJ, Koivusilta L, Koski P, Suominen S, Vahlberg T, Salantera S
Empowering discourse in patient education (2007)
- Patient Education and Counseling
Virtanen H, Leino-Kilpi H, Salantera S
Empowering orthopaedic patients through preadmission education: Results from a clinical study (2007)
- Patient Education and Counseling
Johansson K, Salantera S, Katajisto J
Expectations and received knowledge by surgical patients (2007)
- International Journal for Quality in Health Care
Rankinen S, Salantera S, Heikkinen K, Johansson K, Kaljonen A, Virtanen H, Leino-Kilpi H
How do the healthcare information systems (HIS) help: A literature review (2007) Kontio E, Kontio J, Korvenranta H, Salantera S
Paediatric health-related quality of life instrument for primary school children: cross-cultural validation (2007)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
Laaksonen C, Aromaa M, Heinonen OJ, Suominen S, Salantera S
Towards automated classification of intensive care nursing narratives (2007)
- International Journal of Medical Informatics
Hiissa M, Pahikkala T, Suominen H, Lehtikunnas T, Back B, Karsten H, Salantera S, Salakoski T
Use of the internet as a tool of health knowledge search: perspective of finnish radiotherapy patients (2007)
- EJC Supplements
Siekkinen M, Salantera S, Leino-Kilpi H
'Facilitated tucking by parents' in pain management of preterm infants - a randomized crossover trial (2006)
- Early Human Development
Axelin A, Salantera S, Lehtonen L
'Facilitated tucking by parents' in pain management of preterm infants - a randomized crossover trial (2006)
- Early Human Development
Axelin A, Salantera S, Lehtonen L
Ketoprofen and tramadol for analgesia during early recovery after tonsillectomy in children (2006)
- Pediatric Anesthesia
Antila H, Manner T, Kuurila K, Salantera S, Kujala R, Aantaa R
Nursing advocacy: how is it defined by patients and nurses, what does it involve and how is it experienced? (2006)
- Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
Vaartio H, Leino-Kilpi H, Salantera S, Suominen T
Relevance ranking of intensive care nursing narratives (2006)
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Suominen H, Pahikkala T, Hiissa M, Lehtikunnas T, Back B, Karsten H, Salantera S, Salakoski T
Theoretical considerations of ethics in text mining of nursing documents (2006)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Suominen H, Lehtikunnas T, Back B, Karstena H, Salakoski T, Salantera S
Towards Automated Classification of Intensive Care Nursing Narratives (2006)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
Hiissa M, Pahikkala T, Suominen H, Lehtikunnas T, Back B, Karsten H, Salantera S, Salakoski T
Developing terminology for documenting perioperative nursing interventions (2005)
- International Journal of Medical Informatics
Junttila K, Salantera S, Hupli M
Patient education and health-related quality of life - Surgical hospital patients as a case in point (2005)
- Journal of Nursing Care Quality
Leino-Kilpi H, Johansson K, Heikkinen K, Kaljonen A, Virtanen H, Salantera S