Heli Virtanen
Professor, 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 |
Areas of expertise
Health Pedagogy, Empowering patient education; teaching and learning in patient education; competence and its evaluation in patient education
Health Pedagogy, Empowering patient education; teaching and learning in patient education; competence and its evaluation in patient education
Research community or research topic
Health Pedagogy, Empowering Patient Education (EPE)
Health Pedagogy, Empowering Patient Education (EPE)
Biography
PhD, RN Heli Virtanen is Professor in Nursing Science and has a speciality Health Pedagogy since 2025. Heli Virtanen has a part-time position of researcher in the Turku University Hospital, Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland since 2024. HV has worked at the Department of Nursing Science since 2001 in different positions.
Research
Health Pedagogy, Empowering patient education; teaching and learning in patient education, competence in empowering patient education.
Teaching
Health Pedagogy, supervising master and doctoral thesis
Publications
- Yliopistosairaalan kirjallisen potilasohjausmateriaalin arviointi (2005)
- Hoitotiede
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Yliopistosairaalan kirjallisen potilasohjausmateriaalin arviointi (2005)
- Hoitotiede
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Registered Nurses' perceptions of geriatric rehabilitation nursing in three Scandinavian countries (2004)
- Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Surgical patient education: Assessing the interventions and exploring the outcomes from experimental and quasiexperimental studies from 1990 to 2003 (2004)
- Clinical Effectiveness in Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)



