Professor ZHANG Yuxia is the Vice Dean of the School of Nursing at Fudan University and the Director of the Nursing Department at Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN). Additionally, she holds several important positions, including Chair of the Nursing Professionals Development Committee of the 'Belt and Road' Health Professionals Alliance established by the Health Human Resource Development Centre, NHC, P.R. China, Vice Chair of the Project Management Committee of the Chinese Nursing Association, and Vice Chair of the Nursing Branch of the Chinese Research Hospital Association et al. She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Nursing in Critical Care and other peer-reviewed nursing journals. Her current research focuses on patient experience, nursing management, and critical care. She has received research funding from the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People's Republic of China, the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, the Shanghai Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Sciences, the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, the Shanghai Hospital Development Center et al. Over the past five years, she has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed international or Chinese core nursing journals. Professor ZHANG Yuxia has supervised over 50 postdoctoral fellows and doctoral, and master's students. Her recent work, in collaboration with her research team, involves developing and implementing nursing practices to enhance the patient experience, nursing management, and critical care.

•   Feb 2001 - Jan 2009
  PhD study, School of Nursing, Fudan University

•   Sep 1988 - Jun 1993
  BNS Study: School of Nursing, Shanghai Medical University

• 2019-Present: Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing (FAAN)

• 2023-Present: Vice Chair of the Project Management Committee of the Chinese Nursing Association

• 2022-Present: Chair of the Nursing Professionals Development Committee of the 'Belt and Road' Health Professionals Alliance established by the Health Human Resource Development Centre, NHC, P.R. China

• 2021-Present: Vice Chair of the Nursing Branch of the Chinese Research Hospital Association et al

• 2021- Present:Editorial Advisory Board or Reviewer of 3 peer-reviewed International Journals:  

  1. Nursing in Critical Care

  2. BMJ Open

• 2019- Present: Associate Editor-in-chief, Editorial Board or Reviewer of 7 peer-reviewed Chinese Journals:

  1. Journal of Nursing Science

  2. Chinese Journal of Nursing

  3. Fudan University Journal of Medical Sciences  

  4. Nursing Journal of Chinese People's Liberation Army

  5. Shanghai Journal of Nursing

  6.    Journal of Modern Nursing

  7. Chinese evidence-based nursing

1. Chen X, Zhang Y, Zhao W, Yuan J, Zhang Y*. The Inpatient Experience with Nursing Care Scale (IPENCS): Development, validation and psychometric properties. Journal of Nursing Management. 2022,30(2):570-581.

2. Cai S, Li J, Gao J, Pan W, Zhang Y*. Prediction models for postoperative delirium after cardiac surgery: Systematic review and critical appraisal. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 2022(12);136:104340.  

3. Cai S, Cui H, Pan W, Li J, Lin X, Zhang Y*. Two-stage prediction model for postoperative delirium in patients in the intensive care unit after cardiac surgery. European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 2022,63(1):ezac573.

4. Zhai Y, Yu Z, Zhang Q, Qin W, Yang C, Zhang Y*. Transition to a new nursing information system embedded with clinical decision support: a mixed-method study using the HOT-fit framework. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 2022,22(1):310.

5. Zhai Y, Yu Z, Zhang Q, Zhang Y*. Barriers and facilitators to implementing a nursing clinical decision support system in a tertiary hospital setting: A qualitative study using the FITT framework. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2022, 166:104841.  

6. Gou L, Ma S, Wang G, Wen X, Zhang Y*. Relationship between workplace ostracism and turnover intention among nurses: the sequential mediating effects of emotional labor and nurse-patient relationship. Psychology Health & Medicine. 2022,27(7):1596-1601.

7. Chen X, Zhang Y*, Zhang R, Shen G. 'I Accelerate' model: A grounded theory on conceptual framework of patient experience with nursing care in China. Journal of Nursing Management. 2021,29(5):1311-1319.  

8. Li Gou, Guofeng Wang, Yuxia Zhang*. A multilevel analysis of the impact of group organizational citizenship behaviors on nurse–patient relationship: The mediating effect of work engagement and the moderating effect of emotional intelligence [J]. Journal of Nursing Management. 2021, 29(2):342-350.

9. Cai S, Latour JM, Lin Y, Pan W, Zheng J, Xue Y, Gao J, Lv M, Zhang X, Luo Z, Wang C, Zhang Y*. Preoperative cardiac function parameters as valuable predictors for nurses to recognize delirium after cardiac surgery: A prospective cohort study. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. 2020,19(4):310-319.  

10. Zhang Y, Wang C, Pan W, Zheng J, Gao J, Huang X, Cai S, Zhai Y, Latour JM, Zhu C. Stress, Burnout, and Coping Strategies of Frontline Nurses During the COVID-19 Epidemic in Wuhan and Shanghai, China. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2020,26;11:565520.