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Alice Coffey is a nursing researcher whose work sits at the intersection of robotics, technology, and patient-centered care. Her scholarship focuses on two interconnected domains: robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) and the broader utilisation of robots in nursing practice, positioning her as an emerging authority in healthcare robotics from an Irish clinical and academic perspective. Coffey's most influential contribution, an integrative review of nurses' perceptions of robotic-assisted surgery (2023, 23 citations), helped illuminate a critically underexplored dimension of surgical care — the nursing workforce experience. Complementing this, her 2020 integrative review of patients' perceptions after RAS (13 citations) challenged the field's traditional focus on clinical outcomes by foregrounding the patient voice. Her subsequent qualitative study (2023, 7 citations) deepened this patient-centered lens through rich experiential data. More recently, Coffey has expanded her scope to examine robots across nursing practice more broadly, including an umbrella review (2025, 16 citations) and a grey literature review of policies and regulations governing robotic use in nursing — work that carries significant implications for workforce planning amid global nursing shortages. Grounded in both qualitative and review methodologies, her growing body of work advocates for humanising technological advances in healthcare.