MARJA HäRKäNEN

Associate Professor

Associate professor, title of docent (Medication safety and Nursing Science)

In my research, I have focused on medication safety and medication skills of nurses. I have analysed medication incidents from Finland, England and Wales in collaboration with King's College, London. In 2017-2020 I was working as a post doctoral researcher funded by Academy of Finland and I developed text mining method for analysing free text of medication related incident reports. I am responsible person of the MASI research project that is aiming to study and improve medication safety.

Contact info

Organization

Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Nursing Science

Email

marja.harkanen@uef.fi

Phone

+358 40 355 2614

Keywords

effectiveness intervention research MASI medication incidents medication safety nursing text mining

Teaching Activities

Patient safety teaching and "Researcher path" for master student aiming to continue their post graduate studies. I am supervising also multiple master and doctoral theses.

Research groups and research projects

MASI - Medication Administration Safety and Interventions Asiakas- ja potilasturvallisuus sosiaalihuollon palveluissa