18/04/2025
POV: this is my story
I’ve been a nurse for more than a decade. I had my share of experience and been to diferrent wards and specialty units. I had my mundane routine for years, it was a mix of the challenging and the usual daily pattern. Then one day, I had been tested to become a patient myself. I undergone surgery and I realized that I need a change. Life in the 4 walls of the hospital was actually fulfilling but maybe I needed growth and wanted to look out for more opportunities. Then, I was invited again to visit New Zealand for the 2nd time. As I stepped foot in this beautiful country, I feel this is a chance to pursue another path in healthcare. I was hired by 2 company and chosen community based mental health and TBI facility. The transition is actually smooth, not to mention I am used working in a more toxic environment with my years of experience. So, I find my current profession lighter. Yes, I am not a nurse here but a community support. I do differently from my previous job. As I go along, I find it challenging as well as fulfilling and entertaining. I deal with behaviours and assisting daily activities. What I could never imagine I would do was to become a competent driver. Back home, I am only a passenger princess. I have tested myself the most flexible person when I drove far during my earlier support and to tell you frankly it’s kinda left my spirit out of me. I was amaze i could do that and i did manage to complete my task unscathed. There might be detours, wrong turns and lost lanes, and some hilarous stuff that happened at the background because of my ignorance. Nevertheless I learned and thats the important thing. It made me a strong person everytime I done a new task, a new goal, and added a new meaning to the work that I do. I like to do activities like supporting clients outings, go to purchase personal shop, watching movies, going to beaches, parks, recreational facilities like zoo, bowling, watching sea life, animals and animal feedings. Some of the things would be to accompany clients to vacation even to other counties.
Yes, everyday is different. Some days I would accompany clients to GP appointments, dental, psychiatrist, podiatrist and sometime drop off or pick up or even accompany clients to hospital. There are much to do being a support but I like being out in the community.
I know that I am engrossed with it all, however I am also looking forward to become a nurse here one day. That is one on the top list.
Being a support, I have brought my family here and that is the best part of it all. I am proud of what I have accomplished. Not to brag because I know I had gone through a lot of hardship, buckets of tears and apprehensions. Yet looking at the faces of my family, I know I did good.
I did it because I’ve gone out of my comfort zone, leaving a guaranteed life back home with a good regular position. I could have stayed but I have this unfulfilled spot in my heart of the what ifs and what could be that I need to uncover.
So here we are now, still facing more of life’s ups and downs but being optimistic of the new life we are building here in New Zealand.
