Secrets of a Long Life

Read the article 'Secrets of a Long Life' in your course book, complete the questions adjacent to it, and then write a response to the below question.

Think about the elderly people you know who are relatively healthy and happy. Can you identify any characteristics about them that have enabled them to live a long life?

Technology in Health Care & Public Health

The article entitled 'Improving Patient Care' introduces the online tool called 'Isabel' which is available for health professionals to use to check diagnoses. Have you ever used 'Isabel' or other online tools to assist you in your work in health care or public health?
What computer programs have you found to be most useful to you in your work?
What role do you see technology playing in health care or public health in the future? Do you have any fears regarding the future impact of technology in your workplace?

Accidents in the Home

What kinds of accidents in the home do you think are prevalent in Thailand? How do you think the number of such accidents can be reduced?

David Woodfield

David Woodfield is a teacher at a University of Otago Language Centre. He teaches A English language to international students. He likes it that in his job, friendships are created by students who come from different countries. But sometimes he takes a lot of time to check papers that his students send so he wants to be able to check that and to give feedback more quickly. His special interest is extensive reading which can be realized though programs such as book clubs that are a good way to learn A English language. Sometimes, he has created blogs which students can comment about topics which improves writing skill.

In his opinion, a good teacher is reflective and passionate. He would like to learn using mobiles in his classes. In the future, he plans to arrange a conference about English language learning every year. He worked in Japan for 15 years. In the next 10 years, maybe he would like to do both teaching and administration similar to now and more work abroad if it is possible. He can speak A Japanese language and he plans to improve it on Sunday nights which he usually goes to church to meet with Japanese people. It is a good way to improve in listening skill and vocabulary. This year, he hopes to help the teachers attend at the usage to be more reflective. Finally, he would like to see ESOL are more respected at schools in New Zealand.

Chulamard Booma

Chulamard Boonma, otherwise known as Nuit, is a public health officer at Samut Prakarn Provincial Health Office. She works in the environmental health division. She is involved in pollution prevention, education and control, and more specifically promotion and risk management activities. She enjoys educating members of the public about pollution, but she doesn’t like dealing with environmental law.

Her area of specialisation in public health is health risk assessments. Nuit believes a good public health officer is service-minded and makes sacrifices. In 10 years time she would like to be a lecturer in the field of environmental health.

Nuit hasn’t studied abroad before, but in the future she would like to do a Phd in environmental health in the USA or the UK.

Nuit thinks that English is interesting. She believes that listening and speaking are the main areas she needs to improve. At present she has a 5.0 in the IELTS and she needs a 6.5 or 7.0 to apply to a Phd programme. She expects to improve her English language ability during her stay in New Zealand.

She would like to see Thai people have more awareness of environmental health problems. She wants to see them protect themselves from risks that effect their health. To be more specific, Nuit wants to see more separation of rubbish happen and more recycling. Finally, she wants to see more people washing their hands after using the toilet and before preparing food and eating.

Miss Kornkan Phuengnam (Ploy)

Ploy is the nursing instructor who loves teaching her students, especially mental health knowledge, while she cannot stand doing a lot of documents because she thinks that there are other ways to collect data efficiently such as using high technology. She is interested in psychiatric and mental health nursing because this field can encourage and help patients suffering from mental disorders. Thus, she expects that she will be a nursing instructor in a mental health in 10 years. In her opinion, understanding humanize is essential for a good nurse because it is the base understanding of all nurses. In addition, she would like to study abroad in doctoral degree in mental health nursing in the US or the UK. However, she never studied abroad before.

By the way, she loves English so much since this language can help her improve several things better. However, although she attends to it, she still has to improve her weakest skill that is listening. Recently, she has received a band 5.0 in IELTS test. She believes that English is much important for progressing her career and her life. Therefore, she aspires to improve her English skills and receive as much experienced as possible as well as exchange advantages for the next IELTS test. Lastly, she expects that the government should not emphasize only treatment, but they also should focus on the prevention diseases more because most diseases often are caused by poor behaviors.

Note : Interviewer: Atchara Prajongjeep

Ms.Linnapat Thanawong.

Ms.Linnapat Thanawong. She is a nursing instructor at Boromarajonani College of Nursing ,Chiang Mai. She has been teaching  medication and surgery in adult nursing .She likes her job because It can contribution her lifelong learning , get her an opportunity  to go abroad for improve her teaching’s skills. She does not likes do a lot of documentation. She has a special interest in medication and surgery in adult nursing.

In her opinion about a good nurse is compassionate and patient. Compassionate is defined as the feeling of concern and sympathy for others, and in terms of patient that means a nursing is a never- ending job.

In the next 10 years, Ms.Linnapat Thanawong will follow her dream of being a nursing professor. Although, she has no experience of study overseas, but she is planning to study abroad in a Doctor of Philosophy Program in Nursing Science in The United States of American. At this time, she feels that her English language ability not enough for her to study in a Phd. Program abroad. Therefore, English is more importance to her. Especially, studying English in New Zealand will makes her to get a better score for her first times’ IELTS examination so she can apply government scholarship for study abroad.

Ms.Linnapat Thanawong most likes to see health care in Thailand change. She wants people to have more awareness of health problems and more education for manage their health problems.

Praphasri Thungmiphon : An Interviewer.

Atchara Prajongjeep (Mint)

Sandra's homework; paragraph structure

Please write the essay including a topic sentence, supportive sentences, and a concluding sentence.

Because English is the most used worldwide, why English native countries receive more advantage competition from their mother tongue language. Educational industries demonstrate the main income of the country that people all aged groups around the world voluntary expenditure to study English in native speaking countries such as the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Moreover, the outstanding sales of iPhone and iPad in the recent decade illustrate that the breakthrough of English is accepted. In sum, both the enormous revenue of educational business and the huge income from English operative technology are displayed the globally admitted of English.

Prapasri (EaW) Phupayang : Excusive Interview

Mrs.Prapasri Thupayang has worked as an emergency nurse for 11 years. Then she studied to a master's degree of nursing (MSN) for 3 years, and after graduated, she worked as a consultant nurse for about 1 year at the same hospital where she works in the past. Now she does like a counseling work but she does not like when her counseling failed.

She has a specialization in counseling for female adolescent who engage in unplanned pregnant when they cannot decide their alternative between delivery or termination. That is challenging work for her.

In her view, a good nurse is someone who can deal with patients of various types, who can cope with herself, and balance her family well while she is a nurse.

In the next 10 years, Mrs. Phupayang sees herself as a human resource when manage people that they are different, “Maybe it is not control that is my dream” she said.

In 2002, she went to Switzerland to practice gynecology at Basel University for 14 weeks when she studied in a MSN program. In the future, she intends to study a Ph.D. of nursing at a university overseas.

She thinks, her English is not good enough as she wants. It can just to communication but it is not able to use for academics. She wants to improve her writing and reading skill. Actually, she got a band 5 on an IELTS test last year. She has to be a researcher or a lecturer in the future. Therefore, English is needed to contribute her research to international publications. She hopes to achieve while she is in New Zealand, she will able to get a band 6.5 on an IELTS test.

She would like to see health care in Thailand changes in 6 points consist of :

1.     All people could be access health care system equally.

2.     A higher standard of service.

3.     A people should have more health education than nowadays.

4.     Technology systems should be up-to-date, for example, people can make appointments with doctor by themselves.

5.     Reducing the congestion in out patient departments.

6.     Nurses should be have more than at the present time.

  The interview of Ms. Suwanna Kullaboot

Ms. Suwanna Kullaboot is a nursing instructor at Borromarajchonni Nursing college Nonthaburi campus. What she likes best about her job is teaching activities such as teaching students both in classrooms and patient’s wards, but she does not like paper works such as teaching quality control works. She is a specialist in the field of neurology in surgery wards, but for now she is interested in tuberculosis that she will continue her master degree project about it.

In her view, a good nurse is a smart person who has the mankind and humanity on patients. In the next ten years she will work in the same job. She does not have any plan to change her career.

Ms. Suwanna Kullaboot has no experience of study aboard, but at the present she got a government scholarship to study for a master degree and PhD overseas. She intends to study in the United States of America next year. She worries about her English ability because she feels her English is not good enough to study aboard therefore all of skills need to be improved. There is evidence from the test result of The IELTS on a 5.5 band that she had in 2017. So, that is why English is crucial in her future plans. Twelve weeks are the valuable time to study at an intensive English course (the IELTS preparation) in New Zealand. The improvement of her IELTS performance should be shown in the period of time. She made her mind to study harder than she never tried before.

Ms. Suwanna said that she would like to see some changes  of health care in Thailand especially Thais should have the basic knowledge about self-care, and they should be able to the first care of themselves rather than relying on the health care services. For example, people should know how to care about a common cold at home, but in the case of emergency either bleeding or heart attack they should immediately go to the hospital.

                                                                                                   Prapasri Poopayang
                                                                                                         Interviewer

Interview : Praphasri Thungmiphon [Nine]

Nine is a nursing instructor at Boromarajonani College of Nursing, Lanpang. She teaches about mental health, and psychiatric nursing. She likes her job because she likes to see students who have a good attitude about psychiatric patients. She usually feels happy when she can persuade her students to get a good attitude about psychiatric patients after practicing in the hospital. However, she doesn’t like her job sometimes because she has to prepare many documents at work and it takes a lot of time. She thinks it’s a waste of time for teaching good things for students.

For Nine, A good nurse is a person who is empathic. It means someone who has ability and willingness to share the feelings of another. In the next 10 years, she would like to work as a nursing professor. She has not studied oversea before, but she plans to study for a PhD in nursing in the United States after attending English class in New Zealand. She has a result in the IELTS examination, her score is 5.5.

Nowadays she is trying to improve her English because English is very important for her PhD program. She hopes to improve her English skill such as speaking skills, writing skills and listening skills while she is in New Zealand because she wants to get a higher score in the IELTS test. Nine feels exhausted about her English sometimes because after she took the IELTS test last time, she thought her English was not good enough for study abroad, but she still keeps going to practice her English. 

Nine would like to see Thai people have more education about preventing health problems and hopes they could solve their health problems by themselves instead of going to the hospital.