Heli Virtanen
 Professor, Health Pedagogy, PhD, RN


hetuvi@utu.fi

+358 29 450 3148

+358 50 306 4134

Kiinamyllynkatu 10

Turku


ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1801-549X

Health Pedagogy

Empowering Patient Education

Areas of expertise
Research in pedagogic health care and nursing education, Empowering patient education

Research community or research topic
Health Pedagogy

Biography

I work as a Professor of Nursing Science, speciality in Health Pedagogy at the Department of Nursing Science and the Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland.  




Research

My research focus on health pedagogy from different perspectives. My research areas are nursing and health care education as well as social and health care students' and rescue students' mentoring in clinical practice. Furthermore my research area is empowering patient education, especially theoretical basis, diagnostic, activities and evaluation of empowering patient education, management and leadership as well as competence of empowering patient education.  



Teaching

My teaching areas are health pedagogy studies and empowering patient education course. Furthermore I supervise master and doctoral theses.



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