International nurses are vital to patient care

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00:00It all began when I was in the Philippines, I was working in a surgical ward and there

00:05was this junior doctor saying that their dad's recruiting for nurses to the UK.

00:13I came to Northern Ireland just by myself and I have no family.

00:16My aunt lived in London at the time, but no close family in Northern Ireland.

00:24I started working in Southeastern Trust in February 2001.

00:28I was assigned to Plastics and Maxillofacial Ward and since then on I'm still working

00:34in the same ward 23 years after.

00:37Our international nurses make up a vital part of the Southeastern Trust nursing family.

00:43Many of these staff have come here a huge personal sacrifice, our wards and departments

00:49absolutely could not do without them.

00:52I feel proud and you know based on my experience I'm now able to look after and manage the

01:02ward and looking back as a band 5 I was thinking will I be able to do this in the future and

01:09now it's like now I can do and manage the ward and manage the people I work with.

01:16What I love most is working with the patients, talking to them about their care and looking

01:22after them.

01:24Working with the team in Plastics they were all really nice to work with and they were

01:29very supportive of me.

01:31You know even me coming from a different place I felt I'm part of their family.