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
- Indoor positioning system for movement path analysis in healthcare institutions (2017)
- Finnish Journal of eHealth and eWelfare
- Physical activity among children: objective measurements using Fitbit One® and ActiGraph (2017)
- BMC Research Notes
- Prerequisites for international exchanges of health information for record research: Comparison of Australian, austrian, Finnish, Swiss, and US policies (2017) 16th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics: Precision Healthcare through Informatics, MedInfo 2017; Hanlen L., Suominen H., Müller H., Ohno-Machado L., Salanterä S., Schreier G.
- Testing an Instrument for Assessing Nursing Intensity in Perioperative Settings: Construct Validity (2017)
- International Journal of Nursing Practice
- The Criterion Validity, Reliability, and Feasibility of an Instrument for Assessing the Nursing Intensity in Perioperative Settings (2017)
- Nursing Research and Practice
- The Internet of Things for basic nursing care-A scoping review (2017)
- International Journal of Nursing Studies
- Towards improving shift leaders’ information management in intensive care units: developing and testing a model for a management information system (2017)
- International Journal of Telemedicine and Clinical Practices
- Tulevaisuuden sairaanhoitaja ja hoitotyö (2017)
- Pro terveys
- Ultra-Short-Term Analysis of Heart Rate Variability for Real-time Acute Pain Monitoring with Wearable Electronics (2017) 2017 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) Mingzhe Jiang, Riitta Mieronkoski, Amir Rahmani, Nora Hagelberg, Sanna Salanterä, Pasi Liljeberg
- Usability of a gamified application to promote family wellbeing in child health clinics (2017)
- CEUR Workshop Proceedings
- Validation of Finnish Neecham Confusion Scale and Nursing Delirium Screening Scale using Confusion Assessment Method algorithm as a comparison scale (2017)
- BMC Nursing
- Video education for critical care nurses to assess pain with a behavioural pain assessment tool: A descriptive comparative study (2017)
- Intensive and Critical Care Nursing
- Aktivoivat videopelit motorisen suoriutumisen tukena? – satunnaistettu kontrolloitu tutkimus syöpää sairastavilla lapsilla (2016) Hamari L, Järvelä L, Lähteenmäki P, Arola M, Heinonen OJ, Axelin A, Lilius J, Vahlberg T, Salanterä S
- A real time Excel-based scheduling solution for nursing staff reallocation (2016)
- Nursing Management
- Arjen voimavarat lapsiperheessä (2016)
- Terveydenhoitaja
- Association between amount of sleep, daytime sleepiness and health-related quality of life in schoolchildren (2016)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Breastfeeding preterm infants – a randomized controlled trial of the effectiveness of an internet-based peer-support group (2016)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
- Comparison of automatic summarisation methods for clinical free text notes (2016)
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Decision-Making to Support Smooth Daily Unit Operation in Perioperative Settings (2016)
- Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
- Determinants of tobacco-related health literacy: A qualitative study with early adolescents (2016)
- International Journal of Nursing Studies



