Tarja Pölkki

ORCID: 0000-0002-8301-9537
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Research Areas
  • Pediatric Pain Management Techniques
  • Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Health Sciences Research and Education
  • Music Therapy and Health
  • Breastfeeding Practices and Influences
  • Intensive Care Unit Cognitive Disorders
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
  • Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
  • Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues
  • Pain Management and Opioid Use
  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Anesthesia and Pain Management
  • Research in Social Sciences
  • Outdoor and Experiential Education
  • Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
  • Educational Leadership and Innovation
  • Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
  • Environmental Education and Sustainability
  • Patient Dignity and Privacy
  • Health, psychology, and well-being

University of Oulu
2014-2025

Oulu University Hospital
2015-2025

Oulu University of Applied Sciences
2021

University of Lapland
2017

S:t Eriks Ögonsjukhus
2015

University of Eastern Finland
2001-2008

Qualitative content analysis is commonly used for analyzing qualitative data. However, few articles have examined the trustworthiness of its use in nursing science studies. The often presented by using terms such as credibility, dependability, conformability, transferability, and authenticity. This article focuses on based a review previous studies, our own experiences, methodological textbooks. Trustworthiness was described main phases from data collection to reporting results. We concluded...

10.1177/2158244014522633 article EN cc-by SAGE Open 2014-01-01

Continuous pain occurs routinely, even after invasive procedures, or inflammation and surgery, but clinical practices associated with assessments of continuous remain unknown.A prospective cohort study in 243 neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) from 18 European countries recorded the frequency assessments, use mechanical ventilation, sedation, analgesia neuromuscular blockade for each neonate up to 28 days NICU admission.Only 2113 6648 (31.8%) neonates received pain, occurring variably...

10.1111/apa.13810 article EN Acta Paediatrica 2017-03-03

Introduction: This study aims to evaluate the effects of live music therapy on heart rate variability (HRV) and self-reported stress anxiety among hospitalized women with high-risk pregnancies. A total 102 at an antenatal ward due pregnancy-related complications participated in a randomized controlled trial.Methods: The participants were randomly assigned group (N = 52) or control 50). received three consecutive days, for half hour time. belonging instructed rest equally long time periods....

10.1080/08098131.2018.1546223 article EN Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 2019-01-01

Nonpharmacological methods in relieving children’s postoperative pain: a survey on hospital nurses Finland Aim of the study. The aim this study was to describe nurses’ use selected nonpharmacological 8–12‐year‐old pain hospital. Methods. convenience sample consisted 162 working paediatric surgical wards five Finnish university hospitals. An extensive questionnaire, including five‐point Likert‐scale, and demographic data used as method collection. response rate 99%. Descriptive statistics...

10.1046/j.1365-2648.2001.01777.x article EN Journal of Advanced Nursing 2001-05-07

kääriäinen m., kanste o., elo s., pölkki t., miettunen j. & kyngäs h. (2011) Testing and verifying nursing theory by confirmatory factor analysis. Journal of Advanced Nursing67(5), 1163–1172. Aim. This paper presents a discussion the use analysis to test theory. Background. Theory testing is an important phase in development. intended give more information about concepts their usefulness practice. Confirmatory commonly used instrument development science studies, but also testing. However,...

10.1111/j.1365-2648.2010.05561.x article EN Journal of Advanced Nursing 2011-01-13

Pain assessment of premature infants continue to be ineffective. The problem may partly because misconceptions or lack knowledge in the pain children.This paper reports a study describe nurses' attitudes towards and perceptions neonatal intensive care demographic factors related these pain.The participants consisted 257 Finnish nurses who were recruited from all five country's university hospitals caring for receiving monitoring. We collected data by using Likert-type questionnaire spring...

10.1111/j.1471-6712.2008.00683.x article EN Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 2010-01-11

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the influence music therapy (MT) combined with kangaroo care as dual treatment (DT) on physiological responses preterm infants compared (KC) only. infants' heart rate, respiration, transcutaneous O2 saturation and blood pressure were measured before, during, after every session. Sixty-one born at a 24 36 week gestational age (GA) participated in study. During KC, each infant kept skin-to-skin contact or held by parent, during DT sessions,...

10.1080/08098131003768123 article EN Nordic Journal of Music Therapy 2010-04-27

To define and clarify the concept of leadership in context digital health services using Walker's Avant's analysis model.Conceptualizing is needed to deliver higher quality advance research.Searches were conducted MEDLINE (Ovid), Scopus, CINAHL (EBSCO) ProQuest (ABI/INFORM). Empirical articles included if they reported attributes, antecedents or consequences study context. A total 4037 references identified; 23 included.Leadership attributes concerned leaders' behaviour, roles qualities....

10.1111/jonm.13763 article EN Journal of Nursing Management 2022-08-09

To describe parents' experiences of family-centred care in home-based paediatric their child with a life-limiting illness. A qualitative descriptive study semi-structured interviews. The purposive sample parents (n = 11) children diagnosed illnesses and receiving was recruited from university hospital Finland. interviews were conducted between December 2020 2021. data analysed using deductive-inductive content analysis. Under the five themes care, 11 main categories 31 subcategories...

10.1111/jan.16898 article EN Journal of Advanced Nursing 2025-03-24

Breastfeeding attitudes are known to influence infant feeding but little information exists on the prenatal breastfeeding of parents. The purpose this study was describe Finnish parents' and their relationships with demographic characteristics.The electronic Knowledge, Attitude Confidence scale developed 172 people (123 mothers, 49 fathers) completed study. data were analysed using factor analysis nonparametric methods.Breastfeeding regarded as important, 54% respondents wanted both parents...

10.1186/1471-2393-10-79 article EN cc-by BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2010-12-01

This comparative focus group study explored nurses' experiences and perceptions regarding parental participation in infant pain management the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). A total of 87 nurses from 7 NICUs Finland, Sweden, United States participated focus-group interviews (n = 25). Data were analyzed using deductive inductive thematic analysis. Nurses' varied considerably, being control, to sharing some control with parents, nurse-parent collaboration management. When controlled...

10.1097/jpn.0000000000000136 article EN The Journal of Perinatal & Neonatal Nursing 2015-10-01

Abstract Aim To describe hospital nurse leaders' experiences with digital technologies. Design A qualitative descriptive study. Methods Semi‐structured focus group interviews in one university‐affiliated Finland. Data were collected from October to November 2021 and analysed using content analysis an e‐leadership framework. Results total of 20 frontline leaders middle‐managers participated. Leaders had different kinds that concerned their traits, cognition, affect behaviour experienced they...

10.1111/jan.15481 article EN cc-by-nc Journal of Advanced Nursing 2022-10-27
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10.1038/s41390-024-03032-7 article EN Pediatric Research 2024-02-13

This study aimed to describe pain assessment and management practices for neonates based on nurses' perceptions in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs).A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted Finland.Of all nurses (N = 422) working the NICUs country's five university hospitals, 294 responded a questionnaire. The data were analysed by statistical methods.Nurses agreed that is important, but over half of them reported being able assess reliable way without using scales....

10.1111/scs.12503 article EN Scandinavian Journal of Caring Sciences 2017-08-22

Nurses have an essential role in providing high-quality palliative care to patients and their families. Hence, they require adequate education. However, there is only limited insight into how final-year nursing students perceive education undergraduate programs. This study aimed describe students' perspectives of the development needs An additional two aims emerged based on collected data, namely, preferred for factors which promote or hinder learning during studies.

10.1186/s12904-022-00915-6 article EN cc-by BMC Palliative Care 2022-03-23
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