Helena Leino-Kilpi
Professor, PhD, MEd, RN, Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing FAAN, Fellow of European Academy of Nursing Science FEANS, Member of Academia Europea MAE, Fellow of Royal College of Nursing (UK)and Nurse director (part-time), Turku University Hospital
helena.leino-kilpi@utu.fi Office: B613 Contacts preferably by email. ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-971X |
Nursing and health care ethics; clinical nursing; nursing and health care education
I am a registered nurse, with specialization in surgical-intensive nursing, in my basic education. I am master in educational sciences (MEd), and
PhD in health sciences (nursing science). Since 1998, I have been a full professor in nursing science and 20 years (2002-2022) I have been the Head of the Department of Nursing Science in the Faculty of Medicine. I also have many other scientific duties, both in my university, nationally and internationally.
Since 2002, I have had a subsidiary position of Nurse Director at the Turku University Hospital (Hospital District of Southwest Finland). This position allows me a close connection with nurses in practice and I belong to many groups developing research activities in University Hospital.
PhD-education is an important part of my work, and I have supervised around 70 graduated PhDs in nursing science. In University of Turku, we have a PhD-program in nursing science (Doctoral Program in Nursing Science DPNurs), I am the faculty member of the DPNurs, and I collaborate in the Finnish national doctoral network in nursing science, including collaboration between all five universities in Finland responsible for PhD-education in nursing science. Since many years, I have participated in the PhD-teaching of European Academy of Nursing Science EANS. We also have PhD summer schools in Baltic Sea Region Network in Personalized Health Care and more globally (ICoNS), which I am contributing.
I was a visiting professor (2016-2018) in the University of Dublin, Trinity College and have many international expertise duties. I am honorary doctor in the University of Klaipeda, Lithuania.
My research fields are concentrated in following topics, I have published more than 600 scientific publications, have international and multidisciplinary collaboration and have been involved in many EU-funded consortiums:
• Value basis and ethics in health care and nursing. In this field, I have a special interest in clinical empirical ethics, including ethics of administration and health care organisations.
• Empowering patient education. In this field, I have special interest in clinical fields, like orthopedic nursing and care of cancer patients. I have developed and used in collaboration with the research team instruments and programmes for patient education, also in international collaboration. Currently, we are analysing large data about patients' right to know about their health and care.
• Competence of nurses and nursing students. In this field, I have a special interest in the evaluation and measurement of competence, and I have been involved in the development of competence instruments in collaboration with other researchers. For example, The Good Nursing Care Scale with different clinical modifications, the Nurse Competence Scale (in collaboration with Riitta Meretoja), Competence in Intensive Nursing Care (in collaboration with Riitta-Liisa Lakanmaa), Anesthesia Nursing Competence (in collaboration with Yunsuk Jeon).
• Outcomes of nursing and health care education. In this field, I have special interest in evaluation of learning outcomes of nursing and health care education, as well as work of teachers. In this field, for example, I have collaborated with Mikko Saarikoski with the international Clinical Learning Environment-Scale CLES, with different forms of it.
• Latest, based on funding from the Academy of Finland, I have been a PI in an international research project in the competence of nurses (PROCOMPnurse), and we have published about the competence and factors connected at the early phase of nurses' career. I also recently collaborated in the Erasmus+ program Nurse Leadership, for developing PhD and post doc education (PI Thora Halfsteindottir, University of Iceland/Utrecht) - aiming to continue in that field.
This year, I also (in collaboration with co-PI Mari Kangasniemi) received funding from the Ministry of Education in Finland, for a study making suggestions and scenarios for future education in social and health care sector.
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I am also doing evaluations for different research funding organisations both nationally and internationally, as well evaluations of the research in universities and health care organisations.
I am teaching both on masters and PhD-level in my university, and also internationally. On masters level, I am responsible for the teaching of philosophy of nursing and health care. On the PhD-level, I am teaching philosophy of science, different ethical courses, as well as courses in nursing education and research methods. Internationally, I am teaching eg in the European Academy of Nursing Science summer school for PhD-students in Europe, my field is research integrity.
I have supervised around 70 graduated PhDs and currently I have several PhD-students under my supervision, mostly in collaboration with scientists from other disciplines.
I am a member of Advisory Board of the European Federation of Nurse Educators FINE.
- A European evaluation of the patients’ role in clinical education: A six-country cross sectional study (2022)
- Nurse Education in Practice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Association between work empowerment and interprofessional collaboration among health care professionals working in cancer care settings (2022)
- Journal of Interprofessional Care
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Consistent pressure ulcer prevention practice: The effect on PU prevalence and PU stages, and impact on PU prevention-A quasi-experimental intervention study (2022)
- International Wound Journal
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Doctoral education, advanced practice and research: An analysis by nurse leaders from countries within the six WHO regions (2022)
- International Journal of Nursing Studies Advances
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Educators' occupational well-being in health and social care education (2022)
- Occupational Medicine
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Ethical competence-exploring situations in physiotherapy practice (2022)
- Physiotherapy Theory and Practice
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Graduating nurse students' interest in older people nursing-A cross-sectional survey in six European countries (2022)
- International Journal of Older People Nursing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Graduating Nursing Students’ Empowerment and Related Factors: Comparative Study in Six European Countries (2022)
- Healthcare
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Healthcare Professionals' Electroencephalography Competency: A Disconnect Between Self-Assessment and Objective Testing (2022)
- Journal of Neuroscience Nursing
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Identification of research priorities of radiography science: A modified Delphi study in Europe (2022)
- Nursing and Health Sciences
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Interplay of coordination, co-creation and community building: examining interprofessional collaboration in workplace development efforts in health care (2022)
- Journal of Workplace Learning
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Leadership: Directions for sustaining ethical practice (2022)
- Journal of Nursing Management
(Article or data-article in scientific journal (B1)) - Nursing students’ self-directed learning abilities and related factors at graduation: A multi-country cross-sectional study (2022)
- Nursing Open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Psychometric testing of the facilitative student–patient relationship scale within six EUROPEAN countries (2022)
- Nursing Open
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Reasoning for whistleblowing in health care (2022)
- Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Structural and psychological empowerment of students obtaining continuing leadership education in Finland-a national survey (2022)
- Nurse Education Today
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Suolistosyöpää sairastavan potilaan inhimillinen kohtaaminen solunsalpaajahoidon aikana (2022)
- Syöpäsairaanhoitaja
(Article in trade journal or blog post (D1)) - The nurse teacher’s pedagogical cooperation with students, the clinical learning environment and supervision in clinical practicum: a European cross-sectional study of graduating nursing students (2022)
- BMC Medical Education
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - The usability, feasibility and fidelity of the Ethics Quarter e-learning intervention for nurse managers (2022)
- BMC Medical Education
(Refereed journal article or data article (A1)) - Vahvistaako sote-uudistus palveluiden eettistä turvallisuutta? (2022)
- Turun Sanomat
(Popularised article or blog post (E1))