I always dream
of something that would change the world into becoming less difficult one. I am
always an advocate of small changes that would cater the best of boundless
possibilities in order to safeguard health conditions of the populace, most
especially the poor ones. I am really privilege to have the capacity to study
and, I believe this is one clarion call to share what I have and learned as a
professional nurse and educator.
Façade of Naresuan University
The call for this practicum opportunity made me
realize my worth as a professional to build an institution within ourselves,
linking our efforts, leveraging our resources and making our collective genius
equal to the task. The world should embrace the idea of collective social
responsibility for the provision of health care in order to grasp wide range of
possibilities and stewardship. I remember my mentor way back my college years,
once said: “For what use is it to be knowledgeable and competent, if we are not
able to commit for a cause, to the values and ideals we live in, if we are
self-centered and not be able nor willing to care and share with others, or respect
and accept differences? Sometimes, we people have fed with so much knowledge
and information, to the extent of overloading our minds with more and more data
than we could understand, interpret or much more be thankful for. Hence, losing
our sense of appreciation and gratitude; rather, we gained sense of pessimism
and discontentment.” Hence, Changes, Respect and Glory for the country –
highlights my Doctor of Nursing Science practicum experience
Naresuan University President, Dean
Poonsook and Adjarn Ampha
Naresuan University catered for all the needs of
the staff and students that made the approach more conducive for learning and
exchange. Respect and Cultural Preservation were one of the major thrusts
embedded on their system which exemplify excellence. Naresuan University was
acclaimed for their institutionalized growth development centres for staffs’
children. I find it very helpful to the parents who are having difficulty
caring for their children. Naresuan University find ways to better satisfy not
just the staff but focuses on the development of a family.
Naresuan University Growth Development
Centre
“If you will start leading on a new
environment, do not touch people. Touch the structure first.” – a statement
that launch a thousand ships for the true epitome of Florence Nigthingale, the
foundation of Naresuan University faculty of nursing – Dean Poonsook Hingkanont.
It was such a wonderful experience talking with her since she unnwaveringly
shared her knowledge on leadership and management. She focused on nurses’ hearts and hands, that
we still rely on the science of caring and the art of nursing. With these
principles, our work will never be backbreaking and tangibly thankless instead
a profession that will enhance both our hearts and hands on knowing and caring
our patients.
The Thai journey
to excellence in safe and quality nursing care were defined from novice to
expert paradigm and refocused on defining and conceptualizing expertise by
surfacing the potential steps in achieving competency. It is clearly
articulated the necessity to immerse nurses to different nursing situations for
the expression of nursing as caring and for the solitude application of the
fundamental nursing rudiments of empirics, aesthetics, personal knowledge and
ethics in all silhouette of nursing arena. Thus Thailand’s current
participatory practices within regional and national health governance, while
basically well-intentioned, advertently build on and reinforce existing social equalities.
I’ve learned that these are the major factors that I may say championed their
health delivery system.
Naresuan University Hospital Nursing
Staff
Yet new health
system landscape requires more than this, it also demands new attitudes in
appreciating and looking ways to engage in effective partnerships with both community
and the world. What our vocation needs more than brilliant minds are flexible
individuals who can bend through evolving health care standards and can blend
with the various colours of people we deal with everyday. More so, professionals
around the world should work hand-in-hand with other government and
non-government organizations to have one common standard and provide a glued
solution to the significant gaps found in health about the way training,
regulatory, financial and organizational mechanisms that may critically
hampers the performance of health-care. We
must be able to exemplify and formulate a group that would keep an eye on
quality assurance on international health system.
Bangkok Grand Palace
With this
experience, I realize that I have already reached the point where I see true
beauty in nursing. Where at the end of the day, I look back with a smile on my
face not thinking about the pesos I earned but about the old dying woman saying
thank you for easing her pain. Because in my career, I don’t look back through
the struggling years I have had but through these little priceless moments that
ignites me to care more for humanity. We urge people to change for the better,
but we must not put to oblivion that we should begin the change in our selves.
If we can change something in ourselves, we can surely change something in
others. And these I believe making my dream of a world less difficult possible.
Contributor: Mark Donald C. Reñosa, RN, MS is a doctoral nursing student of St Paul University Tuguegarao