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
- 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
- Palveluohjaus viitoittaa tien hyvinvointialueiden palveluihin (2023)
- Turun Sanomat
- Personalized and adaptive neural networks for pain detection from multi-modal physiological features (2023)
- Expert Systems with Applications
- Pitkittynyt kipu ei ole kenenkään tavoite (2023)
- Turun Sanomat
- Potilaiden kokemuksia unta tukevista hoitotyön toiminnoista sairaalan vuodeosastolla (2023)
- Hoitotiede
- Promoting emotional skills in early adolescents with mental health conditions in music therapy – a content analysis of focus group interviews (2023)
- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
- Promoting emotional skills in early adolescents with mental health conditions in music therapy - a content analysis of focus group interviews (2023)
- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
- Sirkka Lauri (in memoriam) (2023)
- Terveydenhoitaja
- The effect of standalone audio-visual feedback devices on the quality of chest compressions during laypersons' CPR training: A Systematic review and meta-analysis (2023)
- European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
- Transition readiness and anxiety among adolescents with a chronic condition and their parents: A cross-sectional international study (2023)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Using Design Thinking in Nursing Management and Leadership (2023) Design Thinking in Healthcare Siirala Eriikka, Tuominen Outi, Salanterä Sanna
- Validation of item pool for early adolescents' emotional skills assessment in music therapy (2023)
- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
- Validation of item pool for early adolescents’ emotional skills assessment in music therapy (2023)
- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
- Clustering Nursing Sentences - Comparing Three Sentence Embedding Methods (2022)
- Medical informatics Europe
- Combining supervised and unsupervised named entity recognition to detect psychosocial risk factors in occupational health checks (2022)
- International Journal of Medical Informatics



