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SINGAPORE – A faculty member of the Alice Lee Center for Nursing Studies (NUS Nursing) at the National University of Singapore has been named a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (AAN), one of the highest honors in the nursing profession Worldwide.
Associate Professor Wang Wenru, the first from Singapore to receive the scholarship, is one of 230 nursing leaders from around the world selected by the AAN this year.
Headquartered in Washington DC, the AAN currently has more than 2,700 fellows who are the foremost leaders in the field of nursing in education, management, practice, and research.
Fellows are selected based on their abilities to improve nursing practices and health policies, and to make future contributions.
Professor Wang will be included in the AAN during its annual meeting and conference next month.
The 52-year-old Chinese citizen has been a member of the NUS Faculty of Nursing since 2012.
She has more than 28 years of experience as a nurse, educator, and researcher. Her research focuses on chronic diseases, with an emphasis on heart disease.
Professor Wang is currently studying a new model of care in which cardiac rehabilitation is carried out in patients’ homes through mobile devices and wireless sensors. This new model will build on a four-week home rehabilitation program that he helped design in 2015, where heart patients consult a manual and DVD while doing rehabilitation. This program is being used at a local hospital.
It is also working with a research team from the United States, Thailand, and Cambodia to translate and validate its care interventions in those countries.
He has also ventured into diabetes research and helped develop a smartphone self-management system for diabetic patients with poor control of their blood sugar levels.
As coordinator of the Chronic Disease Research and Long-Term Care program at NUS Nursing, Professor Wang advises young faculty members and supervises PhD students.
“I think of (the grant) more as leveraging recognition to drive, establish and expand my collaboration with multidisciplinary teams of researchers to develop innovative, patient-centered and evidence-based interventions to address the complex needs of public healthcare in Singapore. , “said Professor Wang.
NUS Director of Nursing Professor Emily Ang said Professor Wang has made an impact by supporting healthcare organizations in creating home-based and patient-centered models of care.
“The (home-based) alternative is now increasingly valuable and relevant as the coronavirus pandemic leads to widespread disruption and disruption of cardiac rehabilitation programs and other social opportunities for patients with cardiovascular disease,” added.
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