{"id":2373,"date":"2020-09-10T03:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/?p=2373"},"modified":"2020-09-10T03:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T03:24:53","slug":"never-give-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/2020\/09\/10\/never-give-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Never give up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I graduated as an RN from Flinders in 2014 and it was hard to find an RN job in the first two years. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I was doing agency work during this time, and was questioning whether I would be a nurse or not.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><em>&#8216;Should I go back to China and work in my father&#8217;s company?&#8217;\u00a0 But to be a nurse was my dream since I first heard the story of Nightingale at the age of 5 years old. I was so conflicted.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to my husband giving me super support during my hardest time. Especially when COVID-19 broke out this year, he encouraged me to apply for an RN job again and said: &#8216;go and try again, people need you, use what you learn to help them&#8217;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Finally, I received an offer in February. All staff and patients like me and appreciate what I did to help cover shifts during those four tough months. So, I want to tell all nursing students, especially those from overseas, NEVER GIVE UP. &#8216;Success belongs to the persevering&#8217;. You are the best, and you deserve the best!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am now continuing to do the Master Degree in Flinders. Thanks Flinders University where I learned all my skills from and the best-ever international student service offered!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Liang, Bachelor of Nursing graduate and current Masters student<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I graduated as an RN from Flinders in 2014 and it was hard to find an RN job in the first two years. I was doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love-message"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/encounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}