Publications by authors named "Ying Jie Chua"

Background: Documentation of the voices of nurses provided valuable insight and a greater understanding of the nursing experience in Singapore.

Aim: To record nurses' experiences of journey of nursing profession in the acute care setting in Singapore from the early days of formalisation of nursing education to today's practice as a profession with various specialisation and career tracks.

Method: An oral history research approach was adopted, with purposive and snowball sampling to recruit nurses (both current and retired) who had trained in Singapore from 1956 which marked the beginning of the founding of the School of Nursing to current.

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Objective: To examine factors influencing first-time fathers' involvement in their wives' pregnancy and childbirth in Singapore.

Design And Setting: A cross-sectional descriptive correlational study was conducted in a public tertiary hospital in Singapore.

Participants: A total of 182 first-time fathers whose wives were hospitalized at four obstetric wards were recruited from November 2015 to January 2016.

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