{"id":9746,"date":"2021-07-14T04:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.77.231.19\/wordpress\/?p=9746"},"modified":"2021-07-14T04:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T20:00:08","slug":"nurse-academic-conferred-presidents-award-for-nurses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicine.nus.edu.sg\/nursing\/2021\/07\/nurse-academic-conferred-presidents-award-for-nurses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse academic conferred President\u2019s Award for Nurses"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NUS Nursing assistant professor wins nation\u2019s highest nursing accolade for championing perinatal health, engaging in parenting research, grooming the next generation of nurses, and participating in the nation\u2019s COVID-19 fight.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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As a nurse academic, Dr Shefaly’s career is dedicated to conducting research that improves the health and well-being of women and families.\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
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Dr Shefaly Shorey was 25 when she made a midcareer switch to nursing. The former teacher with a Masters in Biological Science answered a calling to help others after journeying through cervical cancer with her grandmother. She enrolled in the local professional conversion programme while married with a son. After getting her Nursing diploma and while working as a registered nurse, she earned her BSc (Nursing) degree and midwifery specialisation.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She worked as a midwife, clinician and nurse educator for 10 years before deciding to pursue her PhD in 2011. \u201cSeeing moms and dads leave the hospital with many unmet needs, probably as a result of the short hospital stays and early discharge dates, made me realise that more needed to be done to support these new parents at home, post-discharge,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

She also experienced first-hand the impact of nursing research while working as a midwife. \u201cIn the tertiary hospital where I worked, the nurses would perform routine nasopharyngeal suctioning of new babies after a normal vaginal birth. After I published a systematic review supporting the stopping of this practice, the procedure was discontinued in the delivery suite based on the findings,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

Illustrious Research Career<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Dr Shefaly completed her PhD in a record time of two-and-a-half years. She joined NUS Nursing as an academic in 2015 after a brief stint teaching in the polytechnic, and has not looked back since, dedicating her career to developing and evaluating psychosocial educational programmes to support parents in Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

In the short span of an illustrious career, she has received more than S$2 million in competitive research grants to support parenting research in Singapore, <\/span>Her research is published in over 100 top-tiered peer reviewed journals. <\/span>It includes a mobile-health app<\/a>, \u201cHome but Not Alone\u201d, developed to help new parents in Singapore cope with the demands of infant care. Dr Shefaly has also devoted her research to studying paternal depression<\/a> in local fathers.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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\u201cWhat is rewarding isn\u2019t receiving the awards, but seeing my academic research being translated into practice and policy-making to improve perinatal health and parenting,\u201d she said.

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