Jenny Song

Qualifications

• Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing, Wintec, 2013.
• Bachelor of Nursing, Wintec, 2009.
• Graduate Diploma in Education, University of Waikato, 2007.
• Bachelor of Medicine, Xuzhou Medical University, China, 1995.
• Registered nurse.

Industry experience, affiliations and achievements

• Registered nurse with the New Zealand Blood Service, 2011-2013.
• Registered nurse with the Waikato Hospital, 2010-2011.

Areas of expertise and research

• Ethics education.
• Nursing research.
• Training international nursing, module coordinator and Chinese translator.

Research activity

• Ethics education – A case study of teaching in a New Zealand tertiary education context’. Wintec, 2016.

To identify difficulties that nursing educators have encountered in teaching nursing ethics and to provide recommendations in nursing ethics education.

• The development of professional identity as a nurse’. Wintec, 2015.

To describe and explore peoples’ life experiences, cultural background, socio-political factors that contribute to the construction of professional identity among nursing students.

Select publications

• Song, J. (2016). ‘Caring’ – An understanding of professional identity by first-year nursing students. Whitireia Nursing Journal. In press.