Charleen Singh PhD, MBA, MSN/ED, FNP-BC, CWOCN, WOCNF, CNE, RN
Program Director and Co-Program Director, International WOCNEP and San Jose State The Valley Foundation School of Nursing Wound Ostomy Program
Dr. Charleen Singh is the founder and program director of the International WOCNEP a non-profit bringing wound ostomy continence education to nurses in South Asia partnering with the University of Medicine and Pharmacy at Ho Chi Minh and the Central Philippines University. She is the co-founder, co-director of the San Jose State Wound Ostomy program.
She offers more than 25 years of nursing experience which spans across countries, ages, health issues and practice.
Her career started at the neonatal ICU at British Columbia Royal Columbian Hospital and Children’s hospital. She spent a year at Seattle Children’s Hospital working on the oncology and bone marrow transplant unit. She then dedicated the next 14 years at Lucile Packard Stanford Children’s Hospital where she developed the role the of the pediatric CWOC nurse.
In the last decade Dr. Singh focused on wound ostomy continence clinical practice as a surgical nurse practitioner at Cottage Hospital, Santa Barbara.
Currently she is the program director of the DNP-FNP program at the University of California Davis Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. Education of nurses, future nurses, improving patient outcomes and applying evidence-based practice are a few of her passions.