{"id":68,"date":"2019-02-15T12:09:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/?p=68"},"modified":"2020-09-23T17:07:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T07:37:58","slug":"jessie-yang-life-beyond-the-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/2019\/02\/15\/jessie-yang-life-beyond-the-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Life beyond the ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rte text parbase\">\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhen Jessie Yang returned to China in 1997 after training for two years in the Singapore health system, she was brimming with passion to improve Chinese health care.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rte text parbase\">\n<p>\u201cMy time in Singapore opened my mind and gave me a big view for how care should be, but when I came back I realised I couldn\u2019t change the whole hospital system by myself, so I thought, \u2018Okay, I\u2019ll change me!\u2019\u201d said Ms Yang (MHA &#8217;15).<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s first joint venture hospital, the Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinics, was in the process of opening its doors, so Ms Yang jumped at the chance to sign up with its first workers. With a new style of privatised health delivery, the hospital initially became the destination of choice for ailing international travellers covered by health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had to perform a lot of different roles initially \u2013 it turned out this was an opportunity to learn different aspects of health care from different perspectives and it has been very useful in my career,\u201d Ms Yang said.<\/p>\n<p>After being appointed associate general manager of the organisation, Ms Yang realised she wanted to learn more perspectives and techniques for hospital management.<\/p>\n<p>An online search quickly took her to Flinders\u2019 Master of Healthcare Administration, taught in Beijing through the University\u2019s partnership with China\u2019s prestigious Nankai University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe professor from Flinders University really gave us a lot of ideas that could be directly applied to my job. It gave us a view from a different perspective about how a hospital could be set up,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I miss working on the ward sometimes, but in my job now I can help all the support staff understand what needs to be done from a nursing perspective, and also try to create better support systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jessie Yang - The Investigator Transformed\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Y8EMdWWJQHU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jessie Yang returned to China in 1997 after training for two years in the Singapore health system, she was brimming with passion to improve Chinese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3211,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067,825,2075,1228],"tags":[927,918,928,929],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-study-business","category-college-of-business-government-and-law","category-study-health","category-stories","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-healthcare","tag-university-partnership"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/alumni-stories\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}