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About Dr Juriyah Yatim
Assistant Director
Nursing, Singapore General Hospital
Dr Juriyah Yatim is an Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) and also an Assistant Director of Nursing in Singapore General Hospital (SGH). As an APN, she does her practice in SGH Pelvic Floor Disorder Service, which is a unique, multi-disciplinary service that provides clinical management for patients who have functional problems of the pelvic floor of urologic, gynaecologic or colorectal pathology. She also runs video consultation clinics for polyp surveillance, under Colorectal Surgery service.
Juriyah has attained her Doctor of Nursing Practice, a practice doctorate, from Duke University School of Nursing, North Carolina, USA in 2015. She is an Associate Faculty with Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) for the SIT-University of Glasgow Bachelor of Science with Honours in Nursing and Clinical Preceptor for Continence for Graduate Diploma in Clinical Nursing for Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing (collaborated with Curtin University).
Juriyah is very passionate and active in research and evidence-based practices. She has launched a hospital-wide implementation of nurse-led removal of timely urinary catheter protocol known as HOUDINI in her institution which becomes a landmark as being innovative. She has produced and presented many nursing papers, in several platforms, locally and overseas. Some were award-winning papers. She also has several publications in journals and book chapters. She has delivered many talks in local and overseas, namely in Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, Australia and also in Miami, USA.