Ms Ho obtained her Diploma in Nursing, from Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore, in 2002. Upon her graduation, she worked in Changi General Hospital as staff nurse in the operating theatre. Her primary role was that of a scrub nurse in elective and emergency general, orthopaedic and ENT surgery. She was also the overall in-charge of consignment items and implants, and nursing and monitoring of patients in the Post Anaesthesia Care Unit. Ms Ho subsequently obtained a Bachelor of Nursing from La Trobe University, Australia, in 2006, and left for private practice in 2007. Since her time in private practice, she continued her work as a scrub nurse. She has also been promoted to Operation and Clinic Manager in a few establishments.