Yong-Shian Goh

Assistant Professor Goh is a registered nurse and mental health nurse with more than two decades of working experience in different mental health settings. Before joining the Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies, he lectured at Nanyang Polytechnic and was a course coordinator for five cohorts of mental health specialisation programmes.

Since 2009, Dr Goh has been actively involved in research. His main research interests include community engagement and reintegration of people experiencing mental health conditions and the use of innovative pedagogies in teaching mental health nursing. His previous research topics include acculturation of the international healthcare workforce, nursing management issues, community nursing as well as mental well‐being for healthy adults.

Dr Goh is also an active peer reviewer for various international double-blind peer reviewed journals and open access journals and for professional organisations such as Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) National University of Singapore (2009 — 2015)
• Fundamentals of Health Simulation Centre for Health Simulation (NUHS) (2014 — 2014)
• Simulation as a Teaching Tool Institute for Medical Simulation-Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (2014 — 2014)
• Improving Simulation Instructional Methods (iSIM program) University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (2013 — 2013)
• Certificate in Training and Learning (Higher Education) Nanyang Polytechnic (2011 — 2011)
• Master in Nursing National University of Singapore (2007 — 2008)
• Advanced Diploma in Nursing Nanyang Polytechnic (2002 — 2003)
• Bachelor of Health Sciences University of Sydney (2001 — 2003)
• Diploma Nanyang Polytechnic (1993 — 1996)

Companies

• Assistant Professor National University of Singapore (2019)
• Registered Nurse (Psychiatry) Singapore Nursing Board (2003)
• Registered Nurse Singapore Nursing Board (1996)
• Senior Lecturer National University of Singapore (2014 — 2019)
• Lecturer Nanyang Polytechnic (2005 — 2014)
• Community Psychiatric Nurse INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (2003 — 2005)
• Psychiatric Nurse INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH (1999 — 2003)
• Medic Ministry of Defence of Singapore (1996 — 1999)

Publications [5-year IF]

• Roslee, N.L., & Goh, Y.-S (2020). Young adult’s perception towards the formation of stigma on people experiencing mental health conditions: A descriptive qualitative study. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing.
• Tan, W.Q.C., Lopez, V., Tam., W.S.W., Ng, C.K. & Goh, Y.-S (2020). Exploring long-term volunteerism in a community family service centre in Singapore: A Focused Ethnographic Study. Health and Social Care in the Community.
• Reblora, J.M., Dong, L.J., Lopez, V. & Goh, Y.-S (2020). “The same but different” Triaging in primary healthcare settings: A focused ethnography study. Collegian.
• Reblora, J.M., Lopez, V. & Goh, Y.-S (2020). Experience of nurses working in a triage area: An Integrative Review. Australian Critical Care.
• Lim, H.J., Moxham, L., Patterson, C., Perlman, D., Lopez, V. & Goh, Y.-S (2020). Students’ mental health clinical placements, clinical confidence and stigma surrounding mental illness: A correlational study. Nurse Education Today. 45. 167-172.
• Chen, Y.D., Wu, X.V., Chan, E.Y. & Goh, Y.-S (2019). Nurse-led tele-coaching on the modifiable cardiovascular risk factors on people with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A systematic review and metaanalysis. Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. 16(6). 424-432
• Tam WWS, Tang A, Woo B, & Goh, Y.-S (2019). Perception of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement of authors publishing reviews in nursing journals: a cross-sectional online survey.
• Chin S.-Y., Tan, M.L., Lopez, V. & Goh, Y.-S (2018). “I would like to be heard." Communicating with Chinese patients with dementia: A Focused Ethnography. Journal of Transcultural Nursing. 30(4). 331-339.
• Tam, W.W.S., Lo, K.K.H., Khalechelvam, P., Seah, J., & Goh, Y.-S. (2017). Is the information of systematic reviews published in nursing journals up-to-date? A cross-sectional study. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 17:151.
• Pung, L.X., & Goh, Y.-S. (2017). Challenges faced by international nurses when migrating: An integrative literature review. International Nursing Review. 64 (1). 146-165.
• Pung, L.X., Shorey, S. & Goh, Y.-S. (2017). Job Satisfaction, Demands of Immigration among International Nursing Staff working in the Long-Term care setting: A Cross-Sectional Study. Applied Nursing Research. 36. 42-49.
• Goh, Y.-S., & Lopez, V. (2016). Acculturation, Quality of Life and Work Environment of International Nurses in a Multi-Cultural Society: A Cross-Sectional, Correlational Study. Applied Nursing Research. 30. 111-118.
• Goh, Y.-S., Selvarajan, S., Chng, M.L., Tan, C.S. & Yobas, P. (2016). Using standardized patients in enhancing undergraduate students’ learning experience in mental health nursing. Nurse Education Today. 45. 167-172.
• Goh, Y.-S., & Lopez, V. (2016). Job Satisfaction, work environment and intention to leave among migrant nurses in a multicultural society. Journal of Nursing Management. 24 (7). 893-901.