Minna Markkanen has had a varied career in nursing. She received a Master of Nursing Sciences in Administration in 1990 and a Master of Nursing Sciences in Education in 1995. Her work experience includes being a public health nurse from 1982 to 1990 and working as a teacher since 1992. She is currently a senior lecturer at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences. Her interests are in public health nursing, health promotion, child health care, transcultural nursing, and nursing education with an international focus using problem-based learning methods. In her free time, she enjoys making firewood and swimming, including winter swimming, at her cottage, doing yoga, and listening to jazz and opera music.
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Prof. Minna Markkanen Introduction
1. Nurse 1980
Public health nurse 1983
Master of Nursing
Sciences, Administration,
1990
Master of Nursing
Sciences, Education, 1995
Working experience:
public health nurse 1982 –
1990
conductress for couple of
months
teacher 1992 ->
Variety is the Spice of Life!
MINNA MARKKANEN
Senior lecturer, MNSc
Satakunta University of Applied
Sciences
www.samk.fi
minna.markkanen@samk.fi
+358 44 710 3558
2. Old Rauma
is on the UNESCO´s World
heritage sites
My home town is
Rauma,
in South-western
part of Finland
3. Interests in
Nursing
Public health nursing /
health promotion / origin
of health / salutogenesis
Child health care
Transcultural nursing
Nursing education;
international co-operation
PBL-method (problem
baced learning)
*Lindstöm and Eriksson 2010.
The core of the Ottawa Charter –
the individual as an active and
participating subject
*Lindsrön, B. & Eriksson, M. 2010: The hitshhiker´s guide to salutogenensis.
Folkhälsan Research Centre, Health Promotion Research and the IUPE
Global Working Group on Salutogenesis: Helsinki
4. Winterswimming is one of my favourites
Pori Jazz Festivals
Free time,
hobbies ect.
Married / three grown-up
children / one grandchild
Love
making fire woods and
swimming (also
winterswimming) in our
cottage
doing yoga
jazz, opera
