Brigitte Woo
Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies / National University of Singapore
Brigitte Woo
Dr Brigitte Woo is a 2024–25 Singaporean Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. She currently works as a Research Fellow at the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS). Before her appointment as a Research Fellow, Woo practiced as a registered nurse for six years at Singapore’s National University Hospital. During that time, she was trained and worked as a critical care nurse. She has retained her professional nursing license with the Singapore Nursing Board since leaving clinical practice.
Woo’s research focuses on the role, implementation, and professional development of advanced practice nurses. So far, she has conducted nationwide cross-sectional studies and has collaborated with the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) Office, Ministry of Health (MOH), Singapore. She continues to work with the MOH CNO Office to effect change in policy through research and evaluation. Apart from workforce-related research on nursing, Woo has conducted research and published work on integrating and optimizing care for patients living with atrial fibrillation and ischemic heart disease.
Beyond her academic pursuits, Woo shares her knowledge as a faculty member in the undergraduate programs at NUS Nursing. She also engages in leadership roles as a Board Director in the Sigma Theta Tau – Upsilon Eta Chapter and as a member of the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Nurse Practitioner / Advanced Practice Nurse Research Subgroup.
FURTHER INFORMATION
| Countries | Singapore; |
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| Topics | LTC Workforce; New models of care; Workforce capability; |
| Methods | Focus groups; Literature reviews and synthesis; Mixed methods; Narrative evaluation methods; Qualitative studies; Quantitative data analysis; Questionnaire; Scoping reviews; Surveys; Systematic Review; Thematic analysis; |
| Role | Research; |
| Interest Groups | Data Science; Migration Mobility and Care Workers; Workforce Capacity and Capability; Working Conditions and Wages in Long-Term Care; |
| Website | https://medicine.nus.edu.sg/nursing/our-people/our-faculty/research-fellows/woo-fong-yeong-brigitte/ |
| ORC.ID | 0000-0003-2988-2169 |
| GOOGLE SCHOLAR | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=F_gU0n4AAAAJ&hl=en |
| https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigittewoo/ | |
| Other 1 | https://www.commonwealthfund.org/person/brigitte-woo; |
| Research interests | Advanced Practice Nursing; Nursing Workforce Development; Large Language Models; Generative AI |
| Key publications | Woo BFY*, Lee JXY, Tam WWS (2017). The impact of the advanced practice nursing role on quality of care, clinical outcomes, patient satisfaction, and cost in the emergency and critical care settings: a systematic review. Human Resources for Health, 15(1):63. doi: 10.1186/s12960-017-0237-9 Woo BFY*, Zhou W, Lim TW, Tam WWS (2019). Practice patterns and role perception of advanced practice nurses: A nationwide cross‐sectional study. Journal of Nursing Management, 27(5): 992– 1004. doi: 10.1111/jonm.12759 Woo BFY*, Zhou W, Lim TW, Tam WWS (2020). Registered nurses’ perceptions towards advanced practice nursing: A nationwide cross‐sectional study. Journal of Nursing Management, 28(1):82-93. doi: 10.1111/jonm.12893 Woo BFY*, Koh, KWL, Zhou W, Lim TW, Lopez V, Tam W (2020). Understanding the role of an advanced practice nurse through the perspectives of patients with cardiovascular disease: A qualitative study. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 29(9-10):1623-1634 Woo BFY, Goh YS*, Zhou W (2022). Understanding the gender gap in advanced practice nursing: A qualitative study. Journal of Nursing Management, 30(8), 4480-4490. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13886 Woo BFY*, Ng WM, Tan IF & Zhou W (2023). Practice patterns, role and impact of advanced practice nurses in stroke care: A mixed-methods systematic review. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 00, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.16970 Woo B, Huynh T, Tang A, Bui N, Nguyen G & Tam W (2024). Transforming nursing with large language models: from concept to practice. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, zvad120. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjcn/zvad120 |