A nurse devoted to her patients on the red land of Phu Quy
At the Northwest Regional General Hospital, in Thai Hoa town, Bachelor of Nursing Dong Thi Khanh Hoa is always admired and loved by colleagues and patients. Because throughout 35 years in the profession, she has always been dedicated to her work and devoted a lot of love and care to her patients.
Meeting Ms. Dong Thi Khanh Hoa (born in 1970) at the hospital, I could understand the busyness of nursing staff. As the Head of Nursing, she not only manages, supervises, and discusses work with staff, but also directly cares for and inquires about the health of patients.
Taking advantage of her short break, she shared about her journey and her passion for the medical profession.
Born and raised in Nghia My commune (Thai Hoa town), since childhood, Ms. Dong Thi Khanh Hoa had a dream of becoming a doctor to help cure and save people. At that time, both her father and mother worked at the General Hospital.Nghia Dan district(now the Northwest Regional General Hospital) has always supported her daughter to follow her career path. Therefore, after graduating from Nghe Tinh Medical School, in 1990, the young girl returned to work at her hometown hospital, where her parents were working.
While working, Ms. Dong Thi Khanh Hoa has constantly learned to improve her professional skills and medical ethics, so she has been recognized by her colleagues and superiors. Thanks to that, she has been promoted to a management position, especially as Head of Nursing Department from 2010 to present.
In this position, she advised the Board of Directors on implementation, training, inspection, supervision and encouragement of employees to strive to complete assigned tasks well, and directed the system.nursingNurses, midwives, and technicians must follow good nursing ethics.
Every year, the organization organizes training for the team of nurses, midwives, and technicians on infection control; communication and behavior to achieve patient satisfaction; safe injection; safe use of drugs in patient care; care for patients on ventilators and guidance on implementing technical and professional procedures...
In addition to performing her management duties well, Ms. Dong Thi Khanh Hoa also focuses on scientific research, contributing to solving problems arising in medical examination and treatment at her workplace. Since 2012, she has had scientific topics recognized by the hospital and the Department of Health.
It is worth mentioning that her research topics are all practical and highly effective, easily applied to the situation of medical examination and treatment at the facility. Typical topics include: "Evaluation of the current status of safe injection at the Northwest Regional General Hospital"; "Current status of operating room environment control at 3 district hospitals, Nghe An province"; "Survey of the current status of pressure ulcers in patients and some related factors"...
According to Ms. Khanh Hoa, nursing work always requires a lot of sacrifice. Because the work of caring for patients requires the utmost dedication of nurses, she and her colleagues always spend time with patients from the time they are admitted to the hospital until they are discharged. When meeting patients with serious illnesses or those with infectious diseases, the risk of infection is very high.
Due to the nature of her work, she and her fellow nurses often have little time for their families, even on holidays. Especially when her personal situation is quite difficult when her husband passed away early, she has to take care of her young daughter alone, fulfill her responsibilities at work, and manage the family. There are times when, in order to complete her duties, she has to let her daughter suffer.
In addition, nurse Dong Thi Khanh Hoa is also known as a compassionate person, actively participating in charity work, being a bridge between philanthropists and the poor, people in flood-affected areas and people in remote areas. Every year, she and the hospital connect with Tri Le Border Guard Station (Que Phong district) to organize health check-ups and give gifts to people in border areas.
She also cooperated with the hospital's Nursing Association to organize haircuts and baths for patients, and set up a "0-dong wardrobe" for them.patientpoor; call on philanthropists to give money and gifts to patients in especially difficult circumstances.
“I realize that around me there are many people in difficult and unfortunate circumstances, especially those who are sick, lonely, and need long-term treatment. Therefore, I always try to connect to help and share with those in difficult and miserable circumstances,” said Ms. Khanh Hoa.
With her professional and social contributions, nurse Dong Thi Khanh Hoa has been recognized with dozens of emulation titles. These include the Certificate of Merit from the Prime Minister, the Certificate of Merit from the Ministry of Health, 2 Certificates of Merit from the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor and 4 Certificates of Merit from the Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province.
Bachelor of Nursing Dong Thi Khanh Hoa is truly dedicated to her professional work, actively participates in charity work, helps poor patients; has many successes in scientific research. Therefore, she deserves to be awarded many titles, most recently she was awarded the title of Meritorious Physician by the President.
Specialist II Doctor Nguyen Vinh Hanh - Deputy Director of Tay Bac General Hospital
