Riitta Suhonen
Professor, PhD, RN, FEANS, MAE, Director of the Doctoral Programme in Nursing Science, and Director of Nursing, Turku University Hospital, The Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland
Gerontological nursing; Older people nursing care; Individualized nursing care; Management; Ethics; Self-management of older people; Care environment
PhD, RN Riitta Suhonen is Professor in Nursing Science and has a speciality Gerontological Nursing Science since 2011. RS is the Director of the Doctoral Programme in Nursing Science (DPNurs). She is the fellow (FEANS) of the European Academy of Nursing Science (board and scientific committee member) and Member of the Academia Europaea. RS has a part-time position of Nursing Director in the Turku University Hospital, Wellbeing Services County of Southwest Finland since 2016. RS has worked in the Department of Nursing Science since 2008 and formerly as a quality and development manager in health care district understanding of the healthcare systems, nurse leader and registered nurse. She has served as the former associate editor of the Nursing Open (Wiley) and Nursing Ethics (Sage).
Prof Suhonen is the scientific leader of the research programme called "Older Individuals' Health, Nursing and Services" and the co-lead of the “Ethical healthcare and Nursing” research programme. She has been a principal investigator and coordinator of the Individualized Care Project since 2002, which evaluates the realisation of individuality in patients’ care from the point of view of patients and nurses in different clinical fields including national and international parts. Currently, the focus is on older people's cnursing care and services with the main aim to develop quality of services and care processes for older people and their caregivers. In addition, the research is focused on producing knowledge about individuality of care services to support self-management of older people.
The Individualised Care Project resulted in the Individualised Care Scale instrument, which has been translated and adapted for use in more than 30 countries. Other research topics are nursing and healthcare ethics, nursing education and nursing management. She has expertise in older people nursing care, individualized care, management, ethics, self-management of older people, and support of independence of older people. RS is experienced in leading and participating in international cross-cultural studies Individualised Care project, CBI-project, RightTimePlaceCare 2009-2013, ERASMUS+ Nurse-Lead 2016-2010 and currently is a co-researcher in many projects. She acted as the member of the Management Group, the CORE group and the WG leader (WG3 The ethical dimension of rationing of nursing care), in the COST Action RANCARE CA15208, Rationing - Missed Nursing care: An international and multidimensional problem 2016-2020.
Professor Suhonen is responsible for the courses about gerontological nursing science and nursing ethics in UTU. She is also responsible for the international course called CIDI Clinical Instruments for Evaluating Health - Development, Evaluation and Implementation 25 ects. She teaches topics such as older people nursing care, research methodology, instrument development, academic writing, quantitative research methods in nursing science and research ethics. She has several PhD candidates and master students in supervision.
- Quality of nursing care as perceived by cancer patients: A cross-sectional survey in four European countries (2017)
- Journal of Balkan Union of Oncology
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Theory-based self-management educational interventions on patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (2017)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Uudistuvan sosiaali- ja terveydenhuollon lähtökohtia (2017) Salminen Leena, Stolt Minna, Suhonen Riitta
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - An international study of hospitalized cancer patients’ health status, nursing care quality, perceived individuality in care and trust in nurses: A path analysis (2016)
- International Journal of Nursing Studies
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Avoin tiede – Kokeiluja Logomon hoitotiedetapahtumasta (2016)
- Hoitotiede
(B1 Non-refereed article in a scientific journal) - Congruence between graduating nursing students’ self-assessments and mentors’ assessments of students’ nurse competence (2016)
- Collegian
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Depressive symptomatology and associated factors in dementia in Europe: home care versus long-term care (2016)
- International Psychogeriatrics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Dimensioanalyysin hyödyntäminen hoitotieteellisessä tutkimuksessa osana Grounded theory -menetelmää (2016)
- Hoitotiede
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Discontinued students in nursing education – Who and why? (2016)
- Nurse Education Today
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ethical Activity Profile of Nurse Managers (2016)
- Journal of Nursing Management
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ethical competence: A concept analysis (2016)
- Nursing Ethics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Ethical problems in nursing management: The views of nurse managers (2016)
- Nursing Ethics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Factors associated with older people’s independent living from the point of view of health and functional capacity: A register-based study (2016)
- Nursing Open
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Hoitotiede-lehden vol. 28 suplementtinumero (2016) Riitta Suhonen, Maija Hupli, Sanna Koskinen, Laura-Maria Peltonen
(C2 Editorial work for a scientific compilation book) - Lower extremity musculoskeletal disorders in nurses: A narrative literature review (2016)
- Scandinavian Journal of Public Health
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Measuring trust in nurses - Psychometric properties of the Trust in Nurses Scale in four countries (2016)
- European Journal of Oncology Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - New instrument to assess foot health in older people (2016)
- Journal of Advanced Nursing
(Other publication) - Nurses' characteristics and organisational factors associated with their assessments of individualised care in care institutions for older people (2016)
- Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Older people’s experiences of their free will in nursing homes (2016)
- Nursing Ethics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Participation of family members and quality of patient care – the perspective of adult surgical patients (2016)
- Journal of Clinical Nursing
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)