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
- Examining Empowerment Interventions With Families and Preschool Children: Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials (2022)
- Health Education and Behavior
- Factors associated with smoking refusal self-efficacy among Finnish and Portuguese early adolescents (2022)
- Journal of Substance Use
- Investigation of the causes and effects of stress in nurses working 'floating shifts' (2022)
- Nursing management
- No Longer Without a Reward: Do Digital Rewards Crowd Out Intrinsic Motivation of Young Children? (2022)
- International conference on information systems
- Nurse engagement in a Finnish tertiary-level university hospital: a descriptive cross-sectional survey (2022)
- Hoitotiede
- Personal Pain Sensitivity Prediction from Ultra-short-term Resting Heart Rate Variability (2022)
- Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
- Pilot Study and Gamification Analysis of a Theory-based Exergame (2022)
- International Journal of Serious Games
- Potilasohjauksen vaikuttavuuden arviointi (2022) Professori Helena Leino-Kilven juhlakirja Rosio Riitta, Salanterä Sanna, Pakarinen Anni
- Promoting the health and wellbeing of children: A feasibility study of a digital tool among professionals (2022)
- PLoS ONE
- Randomized controlled trial comparing pit crew resuscitation model against standard advanced life support training (2022)
- Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open
- Scoping review and concept analysis of early adolescents' emotional skills: Towards development of a music therapy assessment tool (2022)
- Nordic Journal of Music Therapy
- Sleep improvement intervention and its effect on patients' sleep on the ward (2022)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
- Supporting LGBTQ+ Students: A Focus Group Study with Junior High School Nurses (2022)
- Journal of School Nursing
- Systematic review of digital interventions to support refusal self-efficacy in child and adolescent health promotion (2022)
- Health Promotion International
- Text Classification Model Explainability for Keyword Extraction - Towards Keyword-Based Summarization of Nursing Care Episodes (2022)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Using machine learning to predict subsequent events after EMS non-conveyance decisions (2022)
- BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
- A randomized clinical trial of a new perioperative practice model on anxiety and health-related quality of life in arthroplasty patients (2021)
- Nursing Open
- Artificial intelligence in nursing: Priorities and opportunities from an international invitational think-tank of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative (2021)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Getting into the Same Boat – Enabling the Realization of the Disabled Child’s Agency in Adult–Child Play Interaction (2021)
- Scandinavian Journal of Disability Research
- How GPs can Recognize Persistent Frequent Attenders at Finnish Primary Health Care Using Electronic Patient Records (2021)
- Journal of Primary Care and Community Health



