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Meet our newest NurseCMU Visiting Professor:
Dr. Shefaly Shorey

NurseCMU was excited to welcome Associate Professor
Dr. Shefaly Shorey on board as a member of our visiting
scholar contingent this year. Dr. Shorey’s considerable
research output, as well as her abundant experience, both
as a journal reviewer and board member, mean that our
research community is elated to be able to work together
with her to enhance our own growing research profile.
Although Dr. Shorey stays quite busy, we were lucky to get
a few moments of her time to familiarize our readers with
her profile.

Research Wisdom: For readers who may not and do something that makes a difference.
be familiar with you, what is your background? It may sound like a cliché, but that's how
I decided to pursue nursing.
First of all, I’m honored that Ajarn Jutarat felt
that international research partners can also While I was having these thoughts, I saw a
be profiled, so thanks for this opportunity. My newspaper advertisement from our ministry,
name is Shefaly and I am an Associate Profes- looking for people to make a mid-career
sor from the Alice Lee Center for Nursing Stud- switch to nursing. They were paying a stipend,
ies under the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine which can make the transition a bit easier.
at the National University of Singapore. I am a That's how I ended up doing my diploma in
nurse and midwife by profession, and after nursing. I did my specialization in midwifery,
more than a decade in clinical work, I decided and I did my degree in Australia, and then my
to pursue my PhD, the reason being, clinical masters and PhD from the National University
needs. Being a midwife, I have seen the unmet of Singapore. And here I am today! There's no
needs of many new parents; there is not looking back, and I think that is one of the best
always continuity of care for these new decisions I made in my life, joining nursing.
parents at home. That’s when I felt that some-
thing needed to be done for these parents, and RW: Do you come from a family nursing back-
that’s when I decided to pursue a PhD. ground?

RW: What made you decide to go into nursing? That's a very interesting question. My late
father was a general practitioner; my mom
I think very few people know about my back- was a nurse and a midwife. She's retired now,
ground and how I ended up in nursing. I had a a beautiful person. Of course, I have some
very unconventional way of joining nursing. I aunts and uncles who are from healthcare
was teaching secondary school as a science backgrounds, and we are so close, but it
teacher. I was also looking after my grand- somehow didn't occur to me at that time to
mother, who was diagnosed with stage 4 join nursing. Eventually, God had a plan for me,
cancer, and there were a lot of hospital visits. I and yes, my mom was a nurse and a midwife,
saw the way nurses affected her life. My so I feel that wow, I have made a full circle
grandmother would often give blessings to back to them, to finally become a nurse and
these nurses. So, I wanted to do something midwife.
impactful where I could touch patients’ lives

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