1. Supporting Our Learning and Development
 

Nursing Education in KTPH consist of in-house courses developed by healthcare professionals. There are also teaching and learning activities developed for nurses to contextualise their learning for workplace application. These include in-services and unit-specific programmes curated for emergent and ongoing learning needs.

Proficient nurses are given the opportunity to attend formal education courses to further their professional development in specialised fields.

Our nurses are encouraged to attend and present in local and overseas conferences to stay updated on the latest trends in clinical care, as well as to learn and share their knowledge with other healthcare professionals.

2. Promoting Continuous Improvement
 

Our nurses are empowered to have a voice in decision-making, thus encouraging diverse and creative input that will help advance our healthcare mission through continuous improvement. This is achieved through staff-led initiatives such as Kaizen, quality improvement, and shared governance projects. Nurses are also trained in patient safety and risk management, ensuring care standards through internal cross-department audits and helming patient safety discussions with senior clinicians.

3. Building Our Nursing Research Capacity
 

We aim to develop a research-based culture where nurses consistently incorporate evidence-based practice into decision-making and daily nursing practices to achieve high quality of care for our patients.

Find out more about Nursing Research

4. Encouraging Rotational Exposure
 

Professional development not only encompasses career progression, but also the deepening of the level of practice, to manage the increasing complexity of care. To nurture and hone the development of our nurses, they are encouraged to rotate across different settings and specialties. Rotation enriches professional knowledge and skills throughout our nurses’ careers, and also ensures a fresh infusion of talents in each setting.

One profession, many roles. Our nurses have opportunities to develop skills in different specialties and settings. For example in community care, community nurses get the opportunity to build a care and support relationship with residents that makes a difference to their health and wellbeing.

Click on the links below to read more about the different specialties and settings:

• Community care

• Critical care

• Emergency care

• Gerontology

• Medical-surgical

• Neuroscience

• Nephro-urology

• Orthopaedics

• Perioperative nursing services

• Endoscopy care

• Infection control
   

We offer diverse roles in:

• Nursing informatics

• Nursing quality

• Nursing research

• Nursing education

Advanced Practice Nursing

The sky is the limit – this describes the boundaries for the care and services provided by Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) in KTPH. Our APNs are equipped with clinical knowledge and skills to diagnose, perform physical assessment, order investigations and prescribe medication in collaboration with clinicians. Advanced Practice Nursing is a growth area in nursing development that continuously enhances clinical nursing quality.

As a hybrid between a nurse practitioner and a clinical nurse specialist, our APNs are empowered to provide holistic care for patients and spearhead evidence-based practices across clinical settings. Structured programmes are in place to nurture and mentor our nurses with passion to pursue a career in clinical nursing.

Specialty Nursing

Specialist nurses play a leading role in developing guidelines and protocols, providing support and consultation, and promoting the use of evidence-based practices. They are trained in assessing, implementing and evaluating standards of care for a designated specialty. We have a wide range of specialist nurses who work closely with doctors and perform extended roles in a variety of settings, including:

• Neurosurgery

• General surgery specialist nurses

• Pain specialist nurses

• Vascular specialist nurse

• Wound care service

• Diabetes care

• Palliative nurses
   

Want to know more? Our nurses share their wide-ranging experiences in KTPH’s AHA magazine Nurses' Day special

At Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, nurses are offered a variety of career paths for their professional growth. 

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Nursing Skills & Tracks

Informatics	Clinical	Management
Education	Research	Innovation

*Generic guide subject to performance & vacancy