The dedications of a nurse who saw her job as a sort of a calling, translated…
The nursing staff manager of Bali Nursing Home, Hsu had once gotten slapped, choked, had her hair pulled, and had gotten cussed out for no reasons at all for six months by her patients, the Bali Nursing Home’s Manager, Hsu since her graduation, she’d poured her heart and soul into the clinical front of psychiatry, she’d worked in this field for twenty-nine years without any word of complaint or regret, she’d received the Fourth Outstanding Nurses Award this year.
and here’s a photo of the woman, courtesy of the UDN Papers…
“The job of nursing is not just in the theories, but completed, with one’s life.” Hsu smiled and told, back then, she’d gotten influenced by the cartoon, and set up her goals of becoming a nurse, she’d hoped, to be a nurse in the battlefields, and so, in her time interning at MacKay Memorial and N.T.U. Hospital branches, she’d gone abroad to northern Thailand’s refugee camps to offer her services, and back in 1994, she’d filed for transfer to the Bali Nursing Home.
She’d spent close to twenty-nine years, in the field of psychiatry, she’d recalled how when she’d just begun her training at the MacKay Memorial hospital, a patient saw her, and, immediately slapped her really hard that her glasses fell off, “Back then, I’d not gotten, the least bit angered, instead, I’d become, more than certain, that this, is the direction that I’m taking in life.”
Hsu met a female patient who’d come from the U.S. to get treated, “She’d cussed me out for an entire six months”, until the second time that she’d put the rat poisons into the injection syringes and injected her own breasts, “The next time she saw me, she’d no longer, cussed me out, because she knew, that I really, truly, cared about her.”
At first, her family was totally against Hsu, going into the psychiatric nursing field, her father was so unsettled that he’d made, secretive visits to the hospital to check out her work environment. She said, that she’d, accumulated with her heart, with her professional knowledge, as well as her own sweats, to help the patients with mental illnesses to establish some sort of order, hope, in the chaos of their own lives, and her family members became supportive of her work.
So, this woman used her own actions, to CHANGE the minds of her family, and, she’d dedicated herself, into the field of nursing, in the psych wards too, and, it takes more than just, patience, professional knowledge, and compassion to work in this field, because of ALL the situations the nurses may come across on a daily basis, but this woman is still, very energized by work after twenty-nine years of working in the field, and that, is amazing.
Life, the Obstacle Course 