Bring your students to visit more acupuncture clinics. You will know what is the real treatments that benefits to the patients. Even benefits your aging country.

If you close to the Chinese community and have someone practice or teach qigong, join them to experience and/or interview the others. Then, you will find if any one practice longer, they look younger.

Interview or do some online research to some Reiki or any universal energy healers or NLP, hypnosis healers, you bring a broader health view to your students.

Visit some health devices gathering especially when there are testimonials. You know the medical cost can be tremendously cut down if the devices are infrared/magnet/positive or negative iron or extra long wave therapy device or AC magnetic therapy devise and those device manufacturers already exist more than 2-3 decades that means their quality and treatment effectiveness are trust-able.

Even music, small but high Gauss magnets can relieve pain.

Expand your attention to alternative medicines, you will realize that many diseases are treatable and most of the no clue diseases are preventive and with cheaper solutions.

Gracious. You are not experiencing a unique problem. I remember my clinical instructor asking us when does a caput succedaneum subside? One student finally said, "well they wont go the first grade with it" I am surprised any of us are still alive after the lack of self preparation we had. Keep asking, make them look it up. I say, you have to know this by heart, memorize lab values and the meaning of the number. learn odd sighs and symptoms. be able to complete a head to toe assessment plus know the specific findings of a disease process.

The Teacher and the student of Nursing when initiating their practices in the Clinical Field.

When the teacher asks the nursing student about basic knowledge of anatomy, physiology and other courses and they do not answer anything! Because:

• They are afraid to answer for being wrong or not interested in responding!
•  Or they tell us: "No, they have taught us" is very common to hear and we know that they lie.

Therefore, the goal as teachers is to get a response from our students! Even if they are wrong and encourage them to continue reviewing those courses.

• Achieve the Teacher-Student Communication is very important, we must start from it.
• Motivating the student: The motivation that we must generate in them so that they carry out excellent care for patients, whom they must really know and base their care on scientific knowledge during clinical practice!

The Clinical Field Coordinators must:

Nursing Students must:

This is very helpful guys. Now, I tend to take my students, as well as the instructors, to the world of the YouTube. there are plenty of things to watch. So I usually pick up few that are must relevant to the topic of my course. They should see all that is needed to be seen, and relearn what is required before going to care for patients. I will refresh their memories, and lead them through while watching. There are some brilliant works at the website. In addition, I enjoy explaining some of the themes, which are related to the topics being covered by these videos. At the end, it turn out to be learn and fun, I reckon. I usually ask students, and the response in many cases is positive. Not sure they were telling the truth, or otherwise. But I'm sure that this experience is somehow different from the other types of learning labs. I started to believe that the more you are informal, the better the atmosphere becomes with the students. Do you believe this could apply. Tell me what do you think or what is your experience.

Here you have our take on this issue:

Dear Lourance Al Hadid ,

I have two questions want to ask:

Frieda

Dear Beatrice. A very interesting study.

Dear Freida.

Re back pain, I understand that any sort of pain or even discomfort is necessarily a source of distraction to both the students and the instructor.I also understand that non-conventional remedies exist, like acupuncture and so on. But these are always depending on the availability of resources, which are not available in my school.

Generally, proper lifting and handling procedures that are based on human body ergonomics, preceded by proper warming of body muscles, might helpful in decreasing back pain.

Re the second question, videos of my choice are based on my expertise in the field. I usually spend a considerable time watching videos and try my best to pick only the most suitable to the objectives of my course, and those that my students would comprehend with little effort. Well, students could go and watch others of course. But they might not necessarily improve knowledge. I say that some videos could be directed to different audiences, and therefore, my students would feel somewhat lost in the middle of so many details, which are not on their agenda. I should say here that the majority of effort is directed toward teaching students the basics of human physiology and pathophysiology, leaving the platform for more active, inquisitive students to go and search for more advanced resources.

Dear Lourance Al Hadid ,

Thanks for your reply.

To have acupuncture service in your school takes time. But, let's cross fingers. Maybe, one day, it will be available in your school.

However, the beauty of the Chinese medicine is there are different ways to relieve back pain. Let me share some tips with you and for you to share with your students. It's for mild back pain of the soft tissues.

Please refer to https://www.researchgate.net/project/Humanity-treatments-are-Patients-right/update/5c72b02acfe4a781a582d164

Your lifting heavy stuffs procedure is good to follow. But, lift a patient is not always so lucky that can follow the rule.

For the second part, I do agree with you.

However, I highly recommend that you can share 5-minute/class or in any other way to give students chances to share like the acupressure or whatever that can improve nursing jobs or reduce mentally or physically injury to get extra credits. By doing so, nursing job will have some added fun. It might also reduce the high nurses quitting rate after their practicing.

Best Regards,

Frieda

To attain greater clinical education for students to apply in practice in the form of greater care for patience and compassion towards them actually needs more communication with students so to experience the feelings of humans rather than videos which they still can watch at home any time. Henfe, engage the students face to face or better said heart to heart to develop the sense of compassion. Maybe tackling the problem of contemporary desensitisation of individuals and especially youth may provide extra clues for raising compassion and care for patients and society in general. I believe in this to be very true and practical.

Dear Jasmin Omercic Ph.D. ,

Your comment recalled my student life. When I did not want to retake the decades ago took the TOFEL test, I went to the community college to get 30 credit units to polish my professional and daily used English to re-enter business field.

No matter I was in biology, medical terminology class, my classmates asked me why do not go to the nurse classes instead of going to TCM field that cost more money and time to "make money".

Later, might happen to discover how less the percentage of the students to learn nurse is not due to the love to take care the patient.

It's the same in the medical field for the other jobs. People jump into the medical field, many of them is to share the money pie and despite patients get better or not. How much and how easy to make money might more important than how to reduce the odds.

I also met or treat many nurses quit their nurse job after I practiced TCM. It's due to the helpless in the medical field that against their soul to take care their patients better.

Best Regards,

Frieda

Dear Frieda Mah,

I am glad to be the reason of bringing you back some decades ago and recall your beautiful memories.

Indeed as you mentioned there is a rush of many towards nursing or medical jobs in general for purposes of money or in other words employability, ease of life, changing the country of residence (from developing to developed) etc. These intentions must be questioned to the extent of conditioning the proper service delivered to patients and the job scope in general. There is no problem in earning money, finding employment or changing residential places but the problem lies in the 'intention' of what the purpose of the choice is. This is where students must be questioned. Many students join education in nursing or medical fields of choice in order to obtain one of or all of the above. It may be a normal matter as perhaps and most probably every student has worries about life, job and etc. Parents often advise students (their son or daughter) to pursue medicine without purifying the intention. Few parents do manage to purify it and set the son or daughter to proper direction. But most dont. However, it is the duty of lecturers to ensure and find ways of directing students to identify that intention of why they are there in medicine (nursing etc) as it concerns human lives. It is a dynamic process of education that requires sensitisation of students in contemporary times and keep them emotionally intelligent to be able to feel the worry and inconveniences or pains of the other human. Many, may forget the contents they learned in school which may be normal as we all forget. In Arabic, the word 'insan' used for 'human' comes from the word 'nesa - yansa' which means to forget and as such 'insan' means a person, human who forgets and that is the nature of all us humans. But the students must be taught and tested in different ways. Contemporary technology makes students of our times think differently than those of the past. Hence, to attract their attention is important via greater creativity and engagement. Most of what exists today in the world is causing every human to get lost at moments and confused. For example, massive advertisings desensitise humans in many ways and so do movies or games that depict certain bad acts like carelessness for others a normal matter. WIth knowledge of these matters, we may teach our students to be more conscious and care for others like it should be in medicine especially and elsewhere generally. Just my humble share.

Dear Jasmin Omercic Ph.D. ,

Thanks. I like your idealization. You are all right.

But, the medical field is a mess. Idealization is a tough journey: unlimited paying off and hard to get a fair treat. Patients demand is high. Many patients have distorted personality and value. Sick is a good excuse for not paying money to the health care giver is the common reason of many patients. Not make money, but solve problems and save lives got peers attack. Patients are hard to open mind to give testimonials. There is too much to say.

Law and insurance policies are not favoring to the Chinese medicine due to there is no seats for alternative medicine.

The value of the world is to success. The successful symbol is measured by income.

There is no research for the traditional Chinese medicine vs Western medicine for a chronic diseases study for the cost and cure rate comparison.

I mean the traditional Chinese medicine is not westernized Chinese medicine practitioners who do not order a blood test, following western medicine protocols to show patients that they are superior than the other pure Chinese medicine practitioners..

The popular chronic disease can be insomnia, anxiety, pain, etc.

I bet, it's also a topic that economic researchers could be interested.

Frieda

Today, considering the change in learning needs, changes of the pattern of diseases, and increased care needs, on the one hand, and the shortage of nurses as the largest part of the healthcare team as well as very high cost in nursing and medical education, on the other, the importance of caring for proper clinical education has been multiplied

Dear Radhwan H Ibrahim ,

Please, no worry. As TCM and Chinese culture as well as the nature is surely reach its extremely will start to reverse. It's the time to get reversed.

As I know, there are many ancient therapies be studied and many people are writing very simple and low cost with outstanding results health maintenance and treatments books. It includes me use different levels from acupuncture/moxibustion to the magnet, to cosmic energy, to moral cultivation, to dream building, etc. No matter how severe, simple without high tech can achieve the expected results. Everyone can do it. But, may or may not need training classes depends on each one's background and wisdom.

Only based on Huang DI Nei Jing https://www.researchgate.net/project/Natural-Healers-Digital-Library/update/59558df21042bf83f34bb8f9 have different methods to use different visible and invisible tools to achieve the goal including my books and some others' books.

I bet, there are the other ancient culture's natural health care be studied. They also had their great contributions before. Now, US has a steam studying them.

Usually, they based on physics instead of the living beings and environmental damaged chemicals.

Best Regards,

Frieda