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
- Perioperative nurses' attitudes toward the use of nursing diagnoses in documentation (2005)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Preoperative education for orthopaedic patients: systematic review (2005)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Prostatectomy patients' postoperative pain assessment in the recovery room (2005)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Sense of coherence among Finnish young men - A cross-sectional study at military call-up (2005)
- Nordic Journal of Psychiatry
- Adolescents with cancer - Experience of life and how it could be made easier (2004)
- Cancer Nursing
- Parents of ICA-positive children: Anxiety and coping and support received from the study personnel in a type 1 diabetes prediction and prevention project (DIPP) (2004)
- Diabetes
- Written orthopedic patient education materials from the point of view of empowerment by education (2004)
- Patient Education and Counseling
- Clinical judgement and information seeking by nurses and physicians working with cancer patients (2003)
- Psycho-Oncology
- Need for change in patient education: a Finnish survey from the patient's perspective (2003)
- Patient Education and Counseling
- Developing an instrument to measure and describe clinical decision making in different nursing fields (2002)
- Journal of Professional Nursing
- Nurses' decision-making in collecting information for the assessment of patients' nursing problems (2002)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
- Patients' learning needs after hip arthroplasty (2002)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
- An exploratory study of clinical decision-making in five countries (2001)
- Journal of Nursing Scholarship
- Nursing students' knowledge of and views about children in pain (2000)
- Nurse Education Today
- Decision making of psychiatric nurses in Finland, Northern Ireland, and the United States (1999)
- Journal of Professional Nursing
- Finnish nurses' attitudes to pain in children (1999)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Nurses' knowledge about pharmacological and nonpharmacological pain management in children (1999)
- Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
- Decision-making models in different fields of nursing (1998)
- Research in Nursing and Health
- Decision malting of nurses practicing in intensive care in Canada, Finland, Northern Ireland, Switzerland, and the United States (1998)
- Heart and Lung
- Nursing informatics in Finnish University Hospitals - State of the art (1997)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics



