Dr Fiona Yu is a Registered Nurse, who spent over 18 years working in public hospitals in New Zealand, including more than 12 years in intensive care nursing. She has also worked as a clinical tutor, lecturer, Nurse Practitioner pathway course coordinator, and supervisor of Master’s and PhD students’ research projects.

Dr Yu was awarded her Master’s with First Class Honours in Nursing at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2016. She was awarded a full doctoral scholarship from 2018 to 2021 and completed her PhD in 2021. Her thesis examined intensive care nurses’ resilience, physical workload, and leisure time physical activity to promote nurses’ health and well-being. She published five articles during her PhD study. One of her articles, ‘Personal and work-related factors associated with nurse resilience: A systematic review’, published in the International Journal of Nursing Studies in 2019, has been cited by 593 articles. This review was updated and titled “Personal and work-related factors associated with nurse resilience: An updated systematic review using meta-analysis and narrative synthesis, which was published in March 2025. Her findings will benefit nurses and healthcare management by informing the development of institutional strategies and resilience training programmes to build a healthy workplace in intensive care settings.

Dr Yu is passionate about enhancing the health and well-being of intensive care nurses, and she would like to collaborate with you to enhance the well-being of nurses and/or academicians.