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The mission｜"Good Nurse of China" Cai Hongxia: Dedicating the Most Beautiful Love in a Special Position
From:Beijing Municipal Health Commission
Date:08/16/2019
Cai Hongxia takes care of the elderly patients as they were her parents.
Cai Hongxia, female, was born in October 1965 in Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province. She joined the army in September 1980 and joined the party in September 1985. She is currently the head nurse of the Department of Psychiatry of the 984th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army. She is a deputy director nurse with professional technology at level 4. She has been selected as a model nurse of the whole army, an advanced individual of the whole army, and an advanced individual who has studied Lei Feng in the whole army. She has won two first-class merits and a second-class merit and a third-class merit. In May 2013, she won the 44th "Nightingale Award", the highest honor in the international nursing profession. In 2016, she was awarded the “Top Ten Beautiful Doctors” in China. In 2017, she was awarded the sixth “Top Ten Defenders for Health in Capital” and in 2018 she was named “Good Nurse of China”. As a grassroots representative, she attended the political work conference of the Army at Gutian. She was twice received by President Xi Jinping and was elected as the representative of the 12th and 13th National People's Congress.
She has been working for thirty-five years with strong ambition and never give up.
Cai Hongxia takes care of young patients like a mother
Cai Hongxia has been working in psychiatric nursing positions for 35 years. During this period, she had more than 10 opportunities to change to another position or enter the government, but she refused the changes initiatively. Mental patients have distorted thinking and emotional behavior changes. On one occasion, when Cai Hongxia was alone in the ward, a young male patient suddenly rushed up, slammed her on the table, seizing her hair and slamming her head on the table until the other staff arrived. When her husband knows the accident, he wanted to do something back. However, Cai Hongxia said, "Don't care about the patients’ fault. In fact, they are very painful and they cannot control themselves."
She cares for each patient as close as possible with great love.
Cai Hongxia feeds the patient, helps them to dress, cleans their body, and even cleans their excrement, but she never complain.
"Psychotic patients are also human beings. Since they have been sent to the hospital, we should take the trust and responsibility." On the Chinese New Year's Eve in 1995, an orphan with psychiatric disorders was sent to the hospital. It happened that Cai Hongxia went to the department to check the wards. She saw that the child’s clothes were very dirty. The orphan looked at her helplessly with a pair of demented eyes. She quickly found a hair clip to give the child a haircut, help the kid to put on a hospital gown. The next day is the Spring Festival, considering that the child’s hair was cut and it was easy to catch cold, she found an open store and bought a hat. When she sent the hat to the ward and put it on the child's head, the child who was just stalking in the ward became quiet suddenly. Some mental patients are unwilling to take medicine or spit medicine out. In response to this situation, Cai Hongxia asked all nursing staff to "send medicine to the patients and watch them to take the medicine before leaving". The careful help of her helped a lot of patients to turn over a new leaf of their life.
She strives to expand the achievements in the field of spiritual rehabilitation.
Cai Hongxia instructs patients to practice calligraphy at the recreational treatment center
Since 1998, she has spent six years of her spare time to collect information and consult the literature. In 2004, she edited and published the first nursing monograph for mental illness of the Army with nearly 820,000 words, "Modern Psychiatric Nursing", filling the blank in the monograph of mental illness nursing of the Army. She has written the "Psychiatric Care Management Regulations and Nursing Workflow" for the current management methods. It has become the basic rules and regulations for hospital psychiatric nursing work, and has been listed as an important reference for nursing by many psychiatric hospitals. Over the years, she has written and published 26 academic papers in combination with clinical practice. She has participated in the compilation of 9 monographs such as ”The Series of Home Nursing and Rehabilitation Series of Mental Diseases”, and won 8 military medical achievement awards. She won 5 of those awards as the main researcher.
She innovated sunshine therapy to benefit patients by intensive research.
Cai Hongxia instructs patients to do handmade works
In order to improve the quality of rehabilitation of patients, Cai Hongxia took the opportunity of building a “recreation treatment center” in the psychiatric department of the hospital. She took the lead in exploring a variety of auxiliary rehabilitation activities such as handicraft, pottery, calligraphy, painting and dance according to the interests of patients. These ideas opened the door to the mind and heart of the patients. In July, 2011, the cross-stitch work of rehabilitation patients won the first prize of the “National Handicraft Competition for Mental Patients”. In October, 2012, Cai Hongxia led the rehabilitation patients to participate in the third Beijing Skills Competition for Mental Rehabilitation Patients and got the best total score. Up to now, the recreational treatment center has helped nearly 7,000 patients recover.