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学习护士专业,我相信这是正确的选择

加拿大护士短缺是众所周知的事实,因此很多原来在国内从事卫生行业的新移民都把护士作为自己的目标职业之一,甚至有一些其他行业的移民都改行学护士了。我也是其中一员。

我在国内的职业是内科医生,去年刚来时有过考北美医师执照的想法。但是仔细研究了政策和四处打听之后,发现要经过EVALUATION, STEP1,STEP2三步考试,就算英语很好,不花上个三、四年以上的时间苦读也是不可能的,之后还不一定能等到医院实习的机会。

我已经奔40岁了;刚来加拿大没多久,英语也不过关;另外老公上班辛苦,我还要照顾家务。权衡这些因素后,我放弃了考医师执照的念头,转而申请COLLEGE的护士专业。原因是这和我原来的专业最相近,无论学习和将来工作起来都相对容易;一般2到4年就可以毕业;就业前景也非常好;另外我想:就当学习一下医学英语也好啊。于是来加4个月后,我开始了在COLLEGE学习护士专业的学生生涯。

关于在加拿大学习护士专业多么辛苦,早就听得太多太多。由开始的紧张害怕,到麻木,到鼓起勇气接受这份OFFER,我以为自己已经准备得很充分了。没想到开始的那段日子我还是经历了艰难的心理挣扎。

最开始是接到college关于护士专业入学前的一些基本要求,包括无犯罪纪律证明、健康检查证明、FIRST AID&CRP证书和MRSK TEST等。虽然每一项怎么做都有详尽的说明,但对于英语不是很好,而且对加拿大还不算熟悉的我来说,已经感到头大了。于是立刻打电话向学姐请教,顺便抱怨说怎么这么麻烦,简直让人摸不着头绪。只听学姐在电话那头教诲说:“这就受不了了?这是最简单的了,开学后你就知道啦!”听了背后一紧。

接着就去参加学校的ORIENTATION。系主任和各科老师分别致欢迎词,说得好快啊。我的心“砰砰”乱跳:这么普通的欢迎词都听不懂,那么医学专业词汇就更没戏了。左顾右盼,好象其他人的表情都挺镇定的,我更觉得恐慌了。中午吃着学校提供的免费午餐,味同嚼腊。

下午是本专业的ORIENTATION。我看到黄种人就问:“Do you speak mandarin?”总算结识了几个中国同学。互相交流的感受后,发现大家差不多,我的情绪稍稍平复了一点。但是听到老师推荐的参考书的价格的时候,我又开始心惊肉跳了。幸好同学中间有一些在这里上过PREHEALTH的,对学校和学生生活都很了解,他们安慰我说可以买旧书。

开学了。每门课程的第一节课都只是介绍一下要学什么,怎么学,怎么考试等等。与中国不同的是,这里会把整个学期的安排都详尽地告诉学生,包括每一周学习的内容,考试的时间,甚至每一篇作文的主题都列出来了,这让我感到很舒服。象我现在这种心理状态,突袭是最可怕的。老师们口齿很清晰,语速很慢,并没有出现我设想的不知所云的状况。作业也不是很多,虽然有些特殊要求,比如在网上提交作文,或是特殊格式等等,由于跟中国的方式不一样,费了一些小周折,但总的来说,按时完成是没问题的。

于是高高兴兴地把心得与同学分享。没想到同学说:“难道你没问上一级同学吗?第一周都是这么轻松,可是你千万别放松,一定得抓紧看书,把现在学的内容看完,以后可没时间补。下周开始,每天作业都得做到12点!”

半信半疑地进入了第二周,真正的护士学习生涯开始了。没想到让我最难熬的不是怎么都做不完的作业,而是内心的自卑和孤独。加拿大跟中国的护士教育区别很大,这里更注重学生的团队精神和交流技巧,因而总是在分组讨论、分组合作和写作、演讲等。显然总和中国同学在一起是不行的。可是自己的英语表达能力实在有限,再加上害羞含蓄的个性,跟其他同学在一组的时候,总感觉插不上嘴。每次老师要求每组派一个代表出去演讲的时候,由于害怕影响全组的成绩,我也总是说“我不行”。

语言、生活习惯、信仰等方面的隔阂象一堵墙一样隔在各民族同学之间,使我们很难亲近,更不要说说心里话了。从小到大,在学习和人际关系上从没有遇到过这么大的障碍,现在的这种挫败感象针一样扎在我心上,痛不可言。

我想到了辍学。但我把这个想法告诉我的中国同学的时候,他们纷纷劝阻我:“你来不就是为了融入这个国家吗?你要是什么都行,就不用来上学了。不用怕,上一级同学说过,等到学完,你想不会说英语都不行了。想想那种感觉!”我考虑再三,决定再坚持一下。

我重整旗鼓,调整了自己的心态。我对自己说:我不比别人差,只是要克服语言问题。怎么克服呢?我要敞开心扉,主动,更主动一些。于是我试着跟本地同学说话,有不懂的就问老师,结果发现同学都很友好,老师更是很耐心,很能理解我的处境,给了我很大帮助。

日子在忙碌的学习中过得飞快,一个学期眨眼就过去了。我现在已经扔掉了开始那种自卑感,因为我发现自己也可以比较流畅地与本地人交谈了,尽管不能非常自如地表达自己的思想,但是最起码不再害怕在老师和全班同学面前发言了。写作技巧也有了很大提高,不再象刚来加拿大时那样,写封短信都要抱着字典查半天了。更重要的是,在学习护理技巧和与同学交往的过程中,我学习到了一种乐观自信的生活态度。有自信的感觉是美好的。尽管我现在每天早上起床之前还是先要鼓励自己说:坚持,再咬牙坚持一下,但是我坚信自己能够达到目标,不会想以前那样选择退缩了。

回顾已经走过的这段日子,我觉得有两点是最重要的:

第一,朋友是最宝贵的财富。一定要多交几个朋友,分担痛苦,分享快乐,一起做作业,学习可以变得轻松许多。这可能就是我们学习中反复强调 “Teamwork” 的原因吧。

第二,学会寻求帮助,千万不要不好意思,什么都自己抗。有困难就告诉老师,或是学校里专门负责帮助学生的顾问等,他们会给你很大的帮助。

最后,请大家祝愿我在加拿大求学的过程中一路走好,能够笑到最后,也笑得最好吧。

(CASSIE)

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Does Canada have too many doctors? The question of how many doctors are available to the system is vital to determining whether the effects of the various systems for remunerating them are being accounted for. It is possible that countries with a salary system have simply compensated with very large numbers of doctors in order to mitigate the problems associated with reduced output from salary payments. It is also possible that countries with appropriate incentives for physicians have regulated the supply of physicians to an extent that has diminished the positive aspects of increased quantity that would result from this system of payment. Further, increased numbers of doctors have been strongly and significantly associated with lower mortality over the last 25 years (Or, 2001). There are some health policy analysts who deny that the Canadian system is experiencing a shortage of physicians and point to the increase in doctors per capita since the introduction of taxpayer-funded health care as proof. Indeed, the number of doctors in Canada has risen from one for every 950 Canadians in the 1960s to one for every 550 in 1999 (Rachlis et al., 2001; Barlow, 2002). However, the fact that the number of doctors per capita in Canada has risen does not, in itself, prove that Canada has no shortage of doctors. There must also be some accounting for the increased demand for medical services on the part of patients, which is not possible in Canada where no marketplace for physicians’ services exists. What is possible is a comparison of Canada’s experience with that of other OECD countries where consumers of health are able to determine, through parallel private systems or market mechanisms in the public system, what the growth in the number of physicians per capita should be. Since many of these countries have a larger proportion of the population over the age of 65 than does Canada, it is likely best to compare the number of physicians after some adjustment for the age of the population. Like health expenditures, where the elderly consume far more resources than other proportions of the population, medical professionals are likely to be needed at a higher rate as the population ages. Since there are no documented studies quantifying the increased use of physicians as the population ages, it seems most logical to apply the same proportional increase in spending used above to the adjustment of physicians (from box 2 above, this means that (ρ + 1) is now multiplied by the number of physicians instead of the health expenditures), since increased use of physicians is likely to rise roughly proportionally to increased use of all health services. Unadjusted ratios of physicians to population are given in appendix B. In 2003, Canada ranked twenty-fourth out of 28 OECD countries in a comparison of age-adjusted doctor-to-population ratios . That year, Canada had 66,583 doctors (OECD, 2006). In order to rank with equally developed countries, Canadawould have needed a significantly larger number of doctors. For example, in order for Canada’s 2003 ranking to equal that of first-ranked Iceland, the number of doctors would have had to be higher by approximately 57,071—an 86% increase. Although the number of doctors per capita has increased over time, it is important to consider the rate of growth of doctors (age-adjusted) in other countries. In 1970, Canada had an age-adjusted ratio of 1.8 doctors per 1,000 people, the second-highest ratio among 20 OECD countries for which data were then available. Since 1970, however, all but one of these countries have bettered Canada’s growth in doctors per capita. While the age-adjusted proportion of doctors in Canada grew by 31% over the period, the average increase in the proportion of doctors in the other 19 countries was 149%. In the 33 years between 1970 and 2003, Canada’s doctors-per-capita rank fell from second of 20 countries to twenty-fourth of 28 countries. This is particularly remarkable given that in 2003, Canada’s age-adjusted health spending as a percent of GDP was higher than all other developed nations with universal access health care programs save Iceland. Comparatively, the health care sector should have enough resources to provide for many more doctors than we now have. The long and growing waiting lists suggest that we could certainly employ more physicians to our advantage. Answer: Canada has too few doctors by comparison with other similar countries, and ranks twenty-fourth in this respect in the OECD. The fact that there are more doctors per capita in Canada now than in the past is not a decisive argument against claims of doctor shortages. Every OECD country has more doctors now than in 1970. What is clear is that Canada has a relative shortage of doctors compared to other, equally developed, OECD countries and, in fact, compared to many less developed countries. It is also clear that the ratio of doctors to population is, comparatively, much lower than it was 30 years ago when the current medicare system was launched. (source: Fraser Institute Digital Publication December 2006)
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我觉得还是趁年轻学二人转吧,来钱快,还容易出名。
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我们同样有医学背景,又准备在加从事医学工作的朋友可以多交流。欢迎联系。
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说是说护士短缺,但是很多毕业出来的护士也很难找到正式工作,很多都是兼职,在加拿大啊!谁可以给谁保证什么!嗬嗬,这就是愿“读”服输!
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