NUS Nursing is delighted to announce that Associate Professor Zhou Wentao has been selected as a 2025 Fellow of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners (AANP), a prestigious recognition that testifies to her outstanding contributions to advanced practice nursing. 

The AANP Fellows programme, established in 2000, honours nurse practitioners who have made significant contributions to healthcare through clinical practice, research, education, or policy. Through a highly rigorous selection process, chosen Fellows beget a high level of respect and recognition from peers in the nursing community. 

Assoc Prof Zhou serves as the Deputy Head of Postgraduate Programmes at NUS Nursing and has been the Director of the Master of Nursing programme since 2015, the sole nursing master’s degree in Singapore that trains Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs). As a registered APN, she maintains clinical practice through a joint appointment with the Singapore National Neuroscience Institute (NNI). She has also been pivotal in leading the development of the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for APN training and spearheaded the development of the Singapore Collaborative Practitioners Prescribing Programme (CP3) with colleagues from MOH to able APNs to practice to their full scopes.

Beyond her responsibilities at NUS, Assoc Prof Zhou sits on the steering committee of the International Council of Nursing Nurse Practitioner and Advanced Practice Nurses (ICN NP/APN) network after her 4 years term of co-chairs the research subgroup. An active participant in various APN development initiatives locally and globally, she was honoured as an International Ambassador for the AANP in 2022. She has worked with a group of fellow APNs to establish the Singapore APN Chapter under the Singapore Nurses Association (SNA) in 2024 to advance the role of APNs and promote professional development within the nursing community.

Congratulations and well-deserved, Assoc Prof Zhou!