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.