Sweet Sour Stir Fried Potato Julienne

1) Get couple potato, and clean them

2) peel out the skin

3) Clean them like this

4) At first cut the skinless potato as slice

5) Cut the slice potato as Julienne

6) Put the Julienne to a big bowl of cold water to wash off the starch

7) Clean some hot peppers

8) Cut the clean peppers like Julienne

9) Get some garlic

10) Clean and cut them as small peaces

11) Get a ginger, clean and cut it as small peaces and also Clean and cut some onions as small peaces

12) Drain the potato Julienne

13) Heat a fry pan at high, Add two table spoon cooking oil, Put the prepared onion, garlic and ginger in to the hot oil and stir fry them with one table spoon salt

15) When you smelled the aroma, Add the potato Julienne

16) Add two table spoon of vinegar

17) Add one table spoon of five spice powder

18) Add one table spoon of sugar

19) Stir fry them all together for 10 minutes

20) Add the hot pepper Julienne and stir them well about 2 minutes

21) The stir fried potato Julienne is ready to serve!

How to make Steamed Chinese Buns

A friend of mine who once tried my Chinese steam buns and asked me to write a instruction of how to make it. I am trying here. I hope the instruction I put here would help. If you have any questions, please leave me a comment and I will try my best to answer it.

The step to make the Chinese steam buns like this:

Make a yeast dough ® make the stuffing ® make flat bread dough ® put the stuffing in the flat dough ® wait for water in steamer boiling ® put the buns into steamer ® close the steamer ® keep steamer on oven at high heating 30 minutes ® turn off the oven and open the steamer, buns are ready to serve!

1) To make yeast dough

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  Using a big salver (container) which can keep at least 1.5 gallon of water. Put 2 table spoon of yeast in the container

• Put about 500ml (or 1/8 gallon) of warm water (40 degree centigrade or as your hand can tolerate) in to the container
• Add 3-5 cups of all purpose flour in to the container and using a fork to stir the flour in to the water until they look like porridge ( thicker or thinner are all OK), we call it the beginner dough
• Let the container sits in someplace warm: not too cold, not too warm ( too keep the correct temperature to be able to wake the yeast up) for half hour or more
• Once you see the porridge like beginner dough have some bubbles raise, you may put more flour (4-5 cups or more) in to the container and start to make a dough
• The dough should be soft and the shape is easily changed by hands
• Put the dough in a warm place like before and let it sitting there for another hour or more
• Once the dough raises as twice as its original site, it is ready to use.

2) Use cooking spry on the steamer so it will not be sticky


3) To make the stuffing

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  Get one onion, one clove of garlic, one table spoon size of ginger and 2 jalepeno hot pepper as you desired and clean them up
• Get all above in to food processor and chop them to small pieces and put in a plat to be used
• Clean some vegetables (like one zucchini, couple carrots and 3 celery sticks) you like and ground them to small pieces and put aside to be used
• Fry 4-6 eggs or one box of tofu and then chop them as small pieces if you are vegetarian
• Ground half pound of meat as your choice if you like to eat meat

• Mix all the grounded mean or eggs or tofu with the vegetables and the grounded onion, garlic, ginger and poppers together, add 2tsp salt, 1tsp 5 specie powders and any other flavors you like, Add ¼ cup of soy sauce as you desired to make the stuffing smells good. Mix them well, add 1tsp sesame oil in to it, and stir them again.
• When the stuffing smells good, it is ready to be used.
  

4) To make the Buns

• Cut the yeast dough as small pieces like Ping-Pong balls

. Use roller to roll the Ping-Pong ball dough to a round flat bread

Pick up the flat bread and put 1 table spoon of the stuffing in to it

Close the flat bread with stuffing from edge to center and the bun is ready

Keep going and make as many as your dough can

5) Boil half pan of water for your steamer

6) Put the buns to the steamer

7) Put the steamer on the boiling water and keep the oven on high, let it steam for 30 minutes

8) Open the steamer and take the buns out and serve!

9) Enjoy!!

Chinese doctor in Zambia

The Chinese doctors started to help people in Zambia since 1970s. This year, one of my friend went to there and worked hard in Livingstone Genaral hospital as a gynecoligist. Here are couple of pictures she sent to me.

A lovely picture

Use amplitude of vibration method to calculate ECG Axis

Use amplitude of vibration method to calculate ECG Axis:

1) Calculate lead I and III’s QRS amplitude algebraic sum.
To measure R wave, 0.1mv = +1, 0.2mv=+2, and so on.
To measure q or s waves, 0.1=-1, 0.2= -2, and so on.
2) After got the algebraic sum, find the point on the lead axis I and III and make a perpendicularity line to Axis.
3) These two line will joint at some point “A”.
4) The “OA” line’s direction will be the Axis’s direction.
5) Measure the angle formed by line “OA” and Lead I, the degree is the mean Axis, clock-wise is positive and counter-clock wise is negative.

Using this rule, the above ECG example is:
I: +4
III: +9-1 = +8
Find the point +4 on lead I and the point +8 on Lead III, Make a perpendicularity line from the point to both of the leads.
The joint point of these two lines are the “A” point.
Make a line from “O” to “A”, that is the mean Axis.
Measure the angle formed by line “OA” and lead I. It is approximately +70o.

So in this example, the mean electrical axis is approximately +70o .

The mean electrical axis for the heart normally lies between -30 and +90o. (Some textbooks say the normal range is 0 to +90o.) Less than -30o (or less than 0o) is termed a left axis deviation and greater than +90o is termed a right axis deviation.







By Dreamer
Saturday, September 22, 2007

Pneumothorax

One day, I came on duty. That was an afternoon shift. There were rules that for shift exchange. For stable patients, the off going shift may only give oral and writing report, but for unstable patient who were in the pediatric intensive care room, there were always the needs to go to the bedside to give report to up coming shift.

The morning shift doctor was Dr. Li. She went to the pediatric intensive care room with me and introduced a little boy to me: “This 1 year old boy admitted with Pneumonia yesterday. He was in room 7 before transferred to the intensive care room. His heart had stopped beating for few times and every time he was brought back with CPR. I do not know why and what is happening to him. Therefore, I transferred him to this room so we can keep a closer eye on him.”

I started to exam the boy while listening her report: he was well nourished and on 1L oxygen delivered by nasal cannula, with moderated respiration distress. I listened to his lungs, there were dismissed breath sound in his left side of the lung, and then I performed palpation and percussion of the chest, there were decreased voice vibration and tympani noise on percussion at the left side.

“ Did we do any x-ray exam on his chest today?” I asked. “Yes. The X-ray film showed pneumonia. It was Dr. Wang in radiology gave the report.” “Is there any sign of Pneumothorax?” “Not I can tell.” Dr. Li replied. “OK. I want to borrow the film to take a look.” I said. “Why not we go together and take a look there?” Dr. Li suggested. “Sure.”

Dr. Li and I followed by four medical students, we went to the radiology department and found Dr. Wang, the chief radiologist in the hospital. Dr. Wang got the film out, put on the negatoscope, and explained to us: “Look, here, the white spots are the increases of density of the lungs showing us there is pneumonia on this film.” I look at the film; I saw the left side of chest showing a fine line around the lung, and between the line and the chest wall, there was a clear black area. I pointed the black area: “Dr. Wang, is this possible there is pneumothorax exist here?” Dr. Wang exam the film again and said: “Yes. You are right. It is a pneumothorax.” “Ok. Thank you. That is all I want to know.”

I went back to the unit, wrote an order for a thorax surgeon consolation, and later on we transferred the boy to their unit to get chest tube put in. The boy was recovered and discharged a week later.

In China, it is not required to be able to read X-ray film for every clinical practitioner even they do have classes in medical school for X-ray. There are radiologists who read the X-ray and give report. As a clinical doctor, we only read the report but the film itself. In addition, the radiologist sometimes lack of clinical experiences, and sometimes the clinician did not provide enough information of the patient’s history on the order of X-ray, it could be difficult for the radiologist to give the exactitude report. That really is the gap of clinical practice and accessory examination.

I can see the pneumothorax does not mean I was better then the radiologist. In fact, I was just learning. The only benefit I had was I did exam the patient, I did the basic physical examination as a doctor should do and I knew the patient‘s history better than the radiologist. Based on these, I already knew there were air in his chest. That was what I was looking for. That is why I got it right away.

It is the doctor’s preference to learn how to read X-ray film at that time. Doctors are very busy in China. They do not even have a personal life. Their house doors are opened to all patients. They even have prescription pad and lab order forms at home to serve the patients who may come and knock their doors. In addition, the pay was very little. My first years pay as a resident was 45 Chinese Yuan per month and after served the hospital for 15 years, my salary was 500 Yuan per months. They are very busy workers. There is very little time left after work. That is why many doctors decide not to learn more than they have to. Reading X-ray film is one of the knowledge that they do not have to learn.

I learned this when I was doing my graduate study in Tianjing Children’s hospital. There I spent a month to listen to the radiologist and read all different kind of children’s chest films. It really helped me a lot. I always appreciate the class they offered there. I appreciate the knowledge of reading X-ray films I got from there.

It is true that if I did not learn the skill, the baby boy would still get the correct treatment probably one or two days later. However, it certainly helpful having that skill so that I can help my patients to get less time suffering and cost less for curing.





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The first Lumbar puncture

Friday, August 17, 2007 10:29 AM

Suddenly, I am thinking about to write done my experiences as a pediatrician in China. It is true I worked as a pediatrician in China for 18 years even I did not have any work pictures and work dairy. But when I think back, there is lot of in memory and I want to write done it and share with others. I am not a very good English writer, but I certainly want to try. It also will be a good practice in writing for me anyway.

The first Lumbar puncture of my life


I stayed in the doctor’s break room and crying. I cried so hard that not only my tears but also my nose were running. “ The little boy has been through so much and we did so much work to get his permission to do the lumbar puncture, but I failed. I am so sorry and feel so guilty about it. I hate myself!” I was complaining of myself did not make my first lumbar puncture success.

It was in 1982, I first graduated from medical school in my hometown. I was sent to a pediatric department in the city’s hospital working as a resident. My attending doctor was Dr. Yang Xiu Mei.

As a resident, I basically act like a doctor independently for two years. But at the first three months, there was an attending doctor to work and watch me. I was still within the three months period.

Wang Dong was the patient. He was 5 years old with tuberculosis meningitis. We were using the intravenous and intrathecal anti-tuberculosis therapy to treat his disease. He was doing well. But before we discharge him, we need to do a last check of his cerebral spinal fluid to see if his meningitis was recovered.

As a 5 years old boy, he had been through lot. From the beginning of the therapy which require lumber puncture every other day for couple weeks and then once a week, and plus the use of steroids. His puncture area became thick and hard, it was very difficult to do the puncture. And the boy hate the puncture. Dr. Yong, me and the boy’s father, we work together to persuade the boy to agree of the last one and he finally nodded his head. It was my job to perform the operation.

The boy side lying on the operation table with the father and dr. Young’s help. I opened the sterile lumbar puncture kit and put on my sterile gloves, using a syringe get some lidocaine out of an ample. Put the sterile clothe around the puncture area. Applied local anesthesia and using the lumbar puncture needle to perform the puncture. It went well, but I could not get the CSF out. I checked the depth and the site, everything was correct but the cerebral spinal fluid did not come out. I had to give up …

Since the boy’s medications were weared down to oral and everything was normal except the CSF test was not done. He was discharged from the hospital and come visit as out patient. We performed the lumbar puncture again in put patient area at his first visit as an out patient. It was normal.

As for tuberculosis meningitis, the treatment plan at that time was after the CSF test was normal, it still was requiring additional two years anti-tuberculosis therapy and periodically check of the blood and CSF tests to be considered full recover. If there were any abnormal of the tests, the patient had to be hospitalized again to start the full treatment again. Dong went back to be hospitalized for few times since his first discharge due to incompliance of his medication. But finally at his 10 years old age, he was completely off of all medication and fully recovered.

With the time of my practice, I realized that not every attempt has to be successful since we are dealing with the deferent human bodies and deferent disease process. It requires practice, skills and the operator’s confidence. But I certainly appreciate the tears for my first lumbar puncture as newly graduated medical student. It stays in my memory forever and reminds me to improve my knowledge from time to time.

I still have problems with is site.

I am thinking about yo change this blog to my work experinces but I am not sure it will work well since I could not get in so long time. Well, I will try.

My Personal Philosophy of Nursing

My Personal Philosophy of Nursing

Dreamer

April 28, 2007, 3:06 PM

Today, on my birthday, I am sitting here thinking and writing my personal philosophy of nursing.

As my understanding, the essential roles of nursing, ADN nursing role is assist patients for their wellness in a professional manner. And health in the medical field, is commonly defined as an organism’s ability to efficiently respond to challenges (stressors) and effectively restore and sustain a "state of balance," known as homeostasis; and wellness is generally used to mean a healthy balance of the mind-body and spirit that results in an overall feeling of well-being.

Illness can be defined as a state of poor health.My beliefs concerning personal responsibility are being responsible to your decisions, actions and results of what you did and are still doing. And my beliefs concerning ethical decision making is whatever is good for others and not harm to self or good for self and no harm to others.

What is my philosophy of living? As one who grown up in China mainland, I believe human live to serve people and also be served by people. We serve each other. I also believe that as a server, I need to do the best service I can provide; and as a service receiver, I do not expect too much. Giving and receiving does not have to be equal. My philosophy of living is giving more and expecting less or no returning. Respect and be friendly with others. Never seek problems and never be aggressive to others. Avoid conflicts whenever possible and solve conflicts with a cooperative manner. I knew this probably is not applicable to American culture, but it is what I got from my education and experiences in China from elementary through college and my professional life as a healthcare provider.

In China, there is a famous three character primer which reflect Chinese philosophy of living. It taught us to respect teachers and parents; think others first instead ourselves and do not count what ourselves may loose. This over 2000 years old primer is still very popular in China and is used as a primary principle for teaching children how to live. It influences my life and beliefs. It becomes my personal philosophy of living. It also influence my aspects of professional life as a healthcare provider in China and as a nursing student in America.As a student nurses, I believe that humans are unique beings with biological, psychological, sociological, cultural and spiritual dimensions. These dimensions are in constant interaction and inseparable. I also believe that each human exists on a health-illness continuum that may move from high level wellness to severe illness and death. Humans are in a constant state of adjustment to internal and external environmental stressors as they strive to meet their needs. And our profession as a nurse ought to do what we can to help to meet their needs of wellness in healthcare system. We must use our minds and hearts, as well as our hands and senses to become successful professional nurses in today's challenging health care world.

In my practice, I certainly should aware the physiological and psychological limitations of myself and seek help whenever the conflicts of self limitation with patient’s need come to be a problem. I also will be awareness of my personal value may be different with patients, I would not let the difference effect my practice and remain nonjudgmental during my practice.

My philosophy as a professional nurse is:
1) For my customer: I will think patient’s physiologic and psychological needs and do my best to provide care to meet their needs. Provide patient centered care and assist patients to attain their maximal state of wellness on the health-illness continuum, including the support of a peaceful and dignified death.
2) For other professional providers: Respect others as human beings, healthcare professionals and friends. Be sincere and professional when communicate with them about the care and any problem it may raise. Avoid conflicts whenever possible and solve the conflicts with a cooperative manner when it arises. Help them in a caring and sincere manner whenever they need and be nonjudgmental for their personal beliefs. Trying to be socialized with them.
3) For my profession: I believe that nursing is an evidenced-based science that promotes, maintains and, when possible, restores health. As a professional nurse, timely update my knowledge is an important part of my life. In order to serve my customer the best, I will read and study the nurse researches to keep my knowledge updated.
4) For myself: I certainly apply my personal philosophy with my daily life. Be kind with people, do my best to help people and do not expect any from others. If there is any disagreement with others, try to solve it with a cooperative manner and avoid big conflict if it is not big deal. Make decisions based on not harm other’s benefits and awareness of self comfortable level. In one word: Always remember to provide my best to others.

I am back,I think or hope.

hello?

I am very upset

After Google asked me to change my blog using my Gmail to sign in, I could not get in my blog on my computer anymore. I am really not happy with it!!!!

Lion King Exercise / Erickson’s Stages of Development

Lion King Exercise / Erickson’s Stages of Development

1) What is the most important role of parents during their child’s First Year of Life? Do you think that Simba’s parents accomplished this task? Please explain.

During the first year of life, child develops trust vs. mistrust. They need maximum comfort with minimal uncertainty to trust himself, others, and the environment. Parents’ important role in this stage is to provide these needs to their child. I think Simba’s parents accomplished this task. They provided him a safe and comfortable living environment, Mom made sure there was someone wiser to go with him when he wanted to go out. His dad taught him how to make living and where he should not to go. The King dad also taught him the kingdom and promised him that he will always be there on the sky to guard him once he became a king.

2) When Simba believes it’s his fault for hid father’s death, he is most likely in what stage of development. Please explain.

He is in the preschooler development stage. In this stage, child begin to initiate, not imitate, activities, develops conscience and sexual identity. Simba went to someplace he should not be and got involved in a dangerous situation which indirectly caused his dad’s death. That is why he thought it is his fault for hid father’s death.

3) Simba makes friends with Timone and Pumba and adopts a life-style of “No Worries.” What development stage is he exhibiting?

He is in school-age child development stage. In this stage, child tries to develop a sense of self-worth by refining skills. Simba is learning from new friends and develop a new life style.

4) When do you think that the stage of Identity Vs Role Confusion is evidenced in the movie? Identify behaviors exhibits by Simba that convince you that he is in this stage?

When Simba and his new friends lying under the moon and Simba was talking about what his father once told me what the stars are. And when his girl friend came to find he is still alive and asked him to go back to his kingdom. These are the evidences in the movie of Simba’s development stage of Identity Vs Role Confusion. After Simba told his friends what the stars were and then said: “pretty dam. Isn’t it?” and when he refuses to go back to his kingdom, and said to his girl friend: “It does not matter anyone knows if I am alive. I am not the Simba before. I am not the king, Scar is the king.” These two parts convinced me that he was in this stage.

5) Describe a scene in the movie when Simba demonstrated behavior associated with the stage of Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt.

After heard what uncle Scar talking about the world of the shadowy place and took his best friend to go there and investigate, he wanted to be brave and at the same time, he was not sure he was doing the right thing. He put himself and his best friend in danger. In this stage of life, child works to master physical environment while maintaining self-esteem. When dad gave him a speech about what he did, he expressed that he was just trying to be brave like dad. At this time, Simba was in the Toddler of development stage.

I cut my 4 years long hair today!

I have a dream, a dream to use my long hair to make a little girl happy, a little girl who lost her hair due to Chemo. Therapy. I was waiting and trying to find one. Couple weeks ago, my husband found a website which I can donate my hair to a cancer society. Here I am! I am cutting my hair today and donate it to them!

Here is some memories of my long hair:

Front look!



Back look:

Getting ready for cut!

The hair is no longer mine!

Weekly Journal Assignment

Week 10
My learning/personal growth of this term: time management

This term I have learned lots. But the very important thing I have learned is the time management, both in theory and clinical.

On clinical site, I still have two patients paperwork like last term, but started to care for my third patient. Paper work wise, I am more efficient, it took less time to finish all of them. I think the knowledge I have learned during the term helped for example the lab value and the pathophysiology, the reduction of the paper work this term is also helpful. Patient care wise, I am more efficient than last term. Sometimes when I got a difficult patient, I struggled with time but always can get things done. I think a timely plan for patient care is helpful, even most time it is a mental plan, and it can help me to manage my time of care more efficiently.

For theory, I take another 5 more credits this term. I felt lots more pressure by keep up on the 15 credits schedule. I am doing fine with it just because I am staying with a strict detailed time plan. I made a time table weekly by days for what to study and have another plan for when to finish which part of study. I am strictly following the plan and never let myself slip. That way even it is tight on time wise for study, I still can go step by step to finish what I have planed.

Next term, I think I am going to take one more cause besides the nursing once again. I will stay on strict planning for theory and time my patient care plan. Time management is the key to be success in nursing school and my future career for me I think. I love well planed life.