People need to be encouraged

Thursday, March 09, 2006

People need to be encouraged, so do I.

I am surprised how much joy I had when my instructor told me that I will be an exceptional nurse and all the instructors were impressed what I have done as a student. My heart was signing, my mind was dancing. I had to tell myself that was just a comparison with other students who didn’t know anything about medicine before so that I would not be so happy and forgot who am I.

Indeed, as a former medical doctor who was doing well in nursing school had nothing to be proud of: I already learned lots of things long time ago; and already practiced medicine before. Learning to become a nurse is not completely new for me. I should do well here. There is no excuse for me to not being a good student. So all the instructors should not give me the best commands. But I appreciate it though.

Even though, I am well educated in healthcare system, I am very well aware that I should not consider myself as a very beginner in nursing school, but I am still happy with what I got from instructors, nurses, coworkers and classmates. I am still happy with the nice commands I got from them. I still appreciate all the encouragement they gave to me. I think that is what I should give back to them in return: everyone needs encouragements.

I remembered that I wrote a little article about organization. I did that when I was up set with an instructor’s way manage the team’s time and affected all the team’s performance.
I didn’t let anyone read it except my husband. I did put it on my Chinese blog even it was an English article. That is the point: I had to express my anger without hurt any one. I knew there would be no one in school and work that would be interested in Chinese blog since they don’t know Chinese at all. But now, when I am experience my feelings of being encouraged, I still feel not good for doing so. I should change my word to encouragment from complaining.

It is true that no one is perfect, but only we ca learn is to be better. Treat people like what you like to be treated. Do what you want other people to do. Try your best to help others. That is what I will try to do. I put it here just as a reminder for myself.

Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong! Weng Ma Ni Ba Mi Hong!

Buddha blesses everyone. Buddha helps me to become a better person!

Thanks.

Essay for scholarship

Additional essay for scholarship:

(1) Describe your academic, career, and life goals. How will your academic program at Lane help you meet your goals?

My academic and career goal in America is to continue getting good grades in school and to become a nurse manager or a nursing instructor in the future; Using my cultural and language background to serve the nursing profession in the US.

I was born in China, and lived there for 38 years. I worked as a pediatrician there for 18 years. I understand Chinese culture and healthcare system well. I have been here in the US for 6 years now. I want to learn more about the American healthcare system and more about American culture. I am also fluent in both English and Chinese and willing to use my language skills to serve patients.

My personal goal is to start an English Language Nursing School in China to help the global shortage of the nursing professionals.

Studying in LCC nursing program definitely helps me to meet my goals. The LCC nursing program will help me to get my RN license. After graduating from LCC, I will continue working on my bachelor’s and master’s degrees so that I can teach in a nursing educational program. Also, I will strengthen my leadership skills in order to become a nurse manager in the clinical setting.

(2) How have you demonstrated leadership? (e.g., family, community, church, class projects, paid or volunteer employment).

When I was in Medical School in China, I was a leader of my class that contained 45 students. I was in charge of all the class activities for instance art performance, sports, and academic posters. It was a challenge to find enough time, but I enjoyed it. So I served as a president of the class for 3 years.

When I worked in Nanyang city’s hospital, I was a research leader in the pediatrics department. During the 15 years I worked there, I designed 11 research projects. I was a manager of a boarding school clinic during 1996-1999. I actually established the clinic and ran it for 3 years. I always got a bonus since there were no disease outbreaks, a low injury rate, and low cost and satisfied students.

I still like to do research. I have done some research of Ketogenic Diet in the treatment of pediatric epilepsy and wrote a report in both Chinese and English. I also organized a little group of Chinese to help each other. We meet few times a year to exchange information and help the people who need it. I will keep doing that for the rest of my life.

(3) What significant life challenges have you faced, and how did you handle them?
As a new immigrant, the most significant challenge in my life was trying to find a job in a country where the language is completely different from my native one. That is why I am still trying my best to help other new immigrants to find a job here in the US.

When I first came to the US, I spoke very little English. I even didn’t know how to shop in a grocery store, how to order food in restaurant, and how to use public transportation. I needed to find a job to feed myself.

To find a job, the first thing is to have a nice resume. With the help of my dictionary and the sample resume in the computer program, I composed one. Second, I needed to find the job opening in the paper. It took me a whole day to read the few pages of the paper and find some jobs I thought I could apply for. Because of the language barrier, I had to go to place by place to apply in person that was easier for me to communicate with them.

As an experienced medical doctor, I thought I could do lots of things in medical field. But after I failed many times on the job-hunting, I realized that without good English language skill and proper credentials in the US, there is almost no job that I could get.

Then I decided to go to college to study English and at the same time worked as a volunteer in the American Red Cross, while still trying to find a paid job for living. As my language improved, I found my first job as a support staff in a community service helping people with disabilities. It was completely different from the job I was doing in China, but it sure helped me to stand on my feet. I appreciate the opportunity and did my best on the job.

With the improving of my English skills, I have tried to go back to medical field. I worked as a phlebotomist, a medical assistant, and an ECG technician. And now I am in nursing school. I believe that if I work and study hard, in a dynamic country like the United States, I will have much more opportunities in the medical field and provide my best services to patients in the society.

Sunday's romance

 

 

Swimming in the winter.

I got couple pictures from a friend in China who swimming in the cold winter water every year. I really admire him. Here are the pictures taken couple days ago when he was swimming in the Winters river in China.

Should I be Happy?

Should I be Happy?
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
It is a shame when people want to do something good for the human world; there always is someone there to destroy the hopefulness. I guess it is nature as a human being who wants to live better, wants to get promotion, and wants to be Important. And for this very purpose, to find any possible way to get what they want should not be criticized. That is why for being selfish in this point is becoming another part of human’s nature.
I wonder when people will eliminate the weakness of human nature. That way the world would be so much cleaner and happier.
At this moment, I am not happy. One and half years ago, I wrote a summarized article about The Ketogenic Diet Treatment in Pediatric Epilepsy in Chinese. The purpose of the article was to introduce the treatment to my colleagues in China.
I am a new Immigrant and work in the hospital In Eugene Oregon. The treatment caught my attention because one day at work during break, I was browsing around on the Intranet trying to learn more about American medical system. I was reading the pediatric policies and noted there is a protocol for Ketogenic diet. Working as a pediatrician In China for 18 years, I was believed not the ones who were behind the time of the knowledge. But I have never heard about such treatment. It got my curiosity. I decided to learn more about it.
Internet is my best resources of learning. I got online and read more about it. I liked it. It is a great altered way to treat epilepsy. I thought I was behind the time for this treatment because I left clinical site 3 years before I came to the US and now I am living in the US for 6 years and far away from pediatric practice. So I searched Chinese articles about the treatment and also talked to friend there about the treatment. Surprisingly, I only found few articles about the treatment in Chinese which came from Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong. The articles mainly reported information about the treatment in North America, Australia and England. No research done in China. And my MD friends in China know nothing about the treatment.
I decided to do some research and write a summarize of the treatment and send to Chinese medical journal to introduce the altered pediatric epilepsy treatment to my colleagues in China.
Writing a summarize article with all the references in English is not easy for a person like me using English as Second language. I spend over three months, read about 30 articles, research papers and a book of the treatment. Finally, I wrote an over 9000 words summarize both in Chinese and English. I sent the Chinese version to a medical journal in China and they said it is too long to use at the time. And I tend to forget about it since I was busy for work and school.
Last night, I was visiting a Chinese website and happily talking to the people there. I suddenly wanted to put my article there for people whoever was interested to read it. I only put an aberration there and thinking that I should check to see if anyone staled my work in China. So I check it online and unfortunately, I found a web posting just like what I wrote. The only different is the article was shorted and the author is someone I don’t know. My article really got stolen! That is a hospital website.
I was angry, up set and also confused. I don’t know what to do. I trust them too much to send them my article by printing, emailing, attachment and discs. I gave them anyway they wanted to. And than, there is an e-mail, telling me that they don’t have enough space for my article and then, there is one hospital practicing the treatment and there is someone published it online with their name…
At least there is some hospital trying this treatment, there is someone published the treatment online. I guess, the original point of writing this article is done. I probably should be happy with it. Should I?

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