{"id":20734,"date":"2025-05-13T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/pao\/?p=20734"},"modified":"2026-03-11T10:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:51:20","slug":"hkmu-nurses-embody-the-spirit-of-voluntary-service-hkmu-nursing-alumni-and-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/pao\/discover-hkmuers\/hkmu-nurses-embody-the-spirit-of-voluntary-service-hkmu-nursing-alumni-and-student\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>HKMU nurses embody the spirit of voluntary service<\/strong> <br><em>HKMU nursing alumni and student <\/em> <br>May 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"20734\" class=\"elementor elementor-20734\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-a0536ec elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"a0536ec\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d7591af\" data-id=\"d7591af\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0cafe28 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"0cafe28\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\">\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"single-post\" data-elementor-id=\"20050\" class=\"elementor elementor-20050\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f4ee27f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f4ee27f\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5613ac4f\" data-id=\"5613ac4f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1cf672ab elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"1cf672ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-453d1d2e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"453d1d2e\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4c3c234f\" data-id=\"4c3c234f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99d17a5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"99d17a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div class='hkmuers-top-left'>\r\n<p style=\"margin: 0; font-size: 30px; color: #EE7517; font-weight: bold;\"><strong>HKMU nurses embody the spirit of voluntary service<\/strong> <br><span style='color: #185E46;'><em>HKMU nursing alumni and student <\/em> <\/span><\/p>\r\n<h1 style=\"font-size: 80px !important; line-height: 60px !important; color: #EE7517; position: relative; right: 50px; top: 30px; margin: 0; \">\u201c<\/h1>\r\n<p style=\"font-size: 22px !important; font-weight: bold !important; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold;\">\u201cBecoming a nurse allows us to use our professional knowledge and skills to engage in various types of voluntary work.\u201d<br>\u201cEven seemingly minor roles can make a big difference.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<div class=\"detail\"><p>Queenie Kwan Ching-man, Senior Lecturer, School of Nursing and Health Sciences; graduate of Bachelor of Nursing<\/p>\n<p>Brian Wong Kit, graduate of Bachelor of Nursing with Honours in General Health Care<\/p>\n<\/div>\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: right; font-size: 80px !important; line-height:20px !important; color: #EE7517; position: relative; left: 50px; top: 0px; margin: 0;\">\u201d<\/h1>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-no elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-5a3ee342 social-box elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5a3ee342\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column 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web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-190ede81 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"190ede81\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-43d5f0bf\" data-id=\"43d5f0bf\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-70ca6f2a elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"70ca6f2a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\">\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/pao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/05\/discover-hkmuers-hkmu-nursing-alumni-and-student-1-1.jpg\">\r\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/pao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/05\/discover-hkmuers-hkmu-nursing-alumni-and-student-1-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t<br>\r\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/pao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/05\/discover-hkmuers-hkmu-nursing-alumni-and-student-2-1.jpg\">\r\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/pao\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2025\/05\/discover-hkmuers-hkmu-nursing-alumni-and-student-2-1.jpg\" style=\"width: 100%; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\t\t<br>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1f3951d6\" data-id=\"1f3951d6\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-405d8001 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"405d8001\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div class='hkmuers-section-txt'>\r\n\t<p>Healthcare is a human-centred industry. To cultivate a community spirit in students, the HKMU School of Nursing and Health Sciences (N&#038;HS) regularly organises service activities for them to participate in. In addition to these School-led initiatives, many N&#038;HS staff and students are actively involved in external community work.<\/p>\n<h4>Chance beginnings<\/h4>\n<p>For example, graduate Queenie Kwan, who is now a Senior Lecturer at N&#038;HS, started volunteering with the Hong Kong Red Cross as a teenager. Coincidentally, as we found out in the interview, Brian Wong, Kelvin So and Penry Lee all began their volunteer journey in secondary school.<\/p>\n<p>Queenie had made a pact with a primary school friend to reunite in a non-school-based Red Cross Youth Unit, only to find herself left alone after signing up. Being someone who does not give up easily, she continued anyway, and has since persisted in volunteering for two decades. Brian joined the Cadet Corps of the Civil Aid Service, along with some schoolmates in Secondary 2, because there was not a lot of entertainment available, and he gradually developed a habit of volunteering. Kelvin was assigned by his school to the Hong Kong Red Cross for extra-curricular activities in Secondary 1. And Penry, the newest volunteer among the four, decided to join the same group, also in his first year of secondary school, a commitment he has kept for nine years.<\/p>\n<h4>Memorable volunteering experiences<\/h4>\n<p>Volunteering took Brian around the world. In 2013, he left his busy position as an operating theatre nurse and assumed a teaching role, which gave him space to participate in overseas relief work. His most memorable experience was during the Rohingya exodus from Rakhine in 2017\u201318, when he served as a voluntary nurse in an operating theatre in a field hospital, run jointly by the Finnish Red Cross and the Norwegian Red Cross in a Bangladeshi city bordering Myanmar. \u201cIt was challenging, as the field hospital was not in a traditional setting,\u201d he recounts. \u201cWe had to perform surgery in tents and be innovative given the lack of medical equipment and supplies, like turning used and other potentially useful materials into medical equipment to help patients. Working with healthcare professionals from all over the world also required that we overcome cultural barriers in order to provide effective medical services.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2edd7a18 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2edd7a18\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-33 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-771fb73f\" data-id=\"771fb73f\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5547cf61 elementor-widget elementor-widget-shortcode\" data-id=\"5547cf61\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"shortcode.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-shortcode\"><div class='hkmuers-section-txt'>\r\n\t<h4>Voluntary work \u00d7 Profession<\/h4>\n<p>Like Brian, the other interviewees have made good use of their professional nursing knowledge in community work. Kelvin, who is engaged mainly in voluntary youth work these days, often leads courses and competitions related to nursing in secondary schools and shares his clinical experience with students. In addition to basic nursing knowledge, his background in mental health nursing comes in handy. \u201cStudents who suffer from insomnia or are upset by academic and family stress will call me for a chat or even write me long texts. This shows exactly how my profession is benefiting my voluntary work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For Queenie, the nursing profession took her community work to another level. She recalls leading a programme that served dementia patients with Primary 4 to 6 students at the beginning of her career. Before taking the students and their parents to a daycare centre for dementia patients \u2014 which felt not unlike a \u201cthree-generation family\u201d setting \u2014 she educated the young participants about the condition, including the problems with language and memory faced by the patients and appropriate communication skills. \u201cIn the past, we would ask only general questions like 'Have you eaten? Are you feeling well? Are you getting enough sleep?' during home visits,\u201d she explains. \u201cBut in this particular service programme, not only did we show the community's care for our older friends; the parents and children also learnt about dementia. Becoming a nurse allows us to use our professional knowledge and skills to engage in various types of voluntary work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While she has left frontline healthcare work to teach, her dedication and professionalism have earned her several awards, including the Gold Award in the Professional Volunteer Service Accreditation Programme and the Leadership Bauhinia Volunteer Award, both organised by the Agency for Volunteer Service. She was also named one of ten Hong Kong Professional and Elite Ladies by JCI City Lady. She sees such external recognition as an incentive for her to keep going. \u201cThe Leadership Bauhinia Volunteer Award left the greatest mark on me, as all my fellow awardees were professionals. I placed the trophy at a prominent spot at home to remind myself that using my professional knowledge in volunteering is as important as serving as a nurse,\u201d says she.<\/p>\n<h4>Volunteer at a crossroads<\/h4>\n<p>For a while, Penry was of two minds as to whether to drop out of volunteering because of study stress. He sought advice from the teacher, Queenie. \u201cI was spending quite a lot of time on voluntary youth development work, and my studies were equally demanding. I felt stressed and a bit lost,\u201d he explains. To help him think it through, Queenie shared similar struggles she had gone through and analysed the pros and cons of staying and quitting for him. After some time, Penry figured it out. \u201cVolunteering isn't only about giving. I also have a lot to take away from it. For example, I've developed better communication skills, and I can practise my nursing skills in the service sessions.\u201d So, he decided to continue.<\/p>\n<p>Penry's newfound insight is readily affirmed by his senior schoolmate, Kelvin, who speaks of an experience in his first months of work. \u201cLess than a year after becoming a nurse, I came across a patient who fell unconscious. Fortunately, prior cardiopulmonary resuscitation experience as a volunteer gave me confidence to perform emergency first aid.\u201d Volunteers do benefit from helping others.<\/p>\n<h4>The ripple effect<\/h4>\n<p>At the heart of both nursing and volunteering is the common mission of spreading love. Queenie has a memorable experience many years ago that illustrates this spirit. During a scorching summer, she visited a blind older person living alone, whose only cooling device was a poorly functioning floor fan. While the problem could have been easily solved by buying a better one, she wanted to inspire more people to lend a helping hand. She invited people online to donate a used fan, and the result far exceeded her expectations. One person offered to send over a new fan although he had just given away his spare one. To her even greater surprise, when it arrived, her father, who had never been supportive of her voluntary work, volunteered to visit the older person with her, since Queenie did not know how to install a fan. \u201cDad thought I was busy enough as a nurse and couldn't understand why I was so occupied with voluntary work,\u201d explains Queenie. \u201cAfter that visit, he finally got it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brian, who used to be on the frontline of relief work and now focuses on volunteer training, maintains that \u201ceven seemingly minor roles can make a big difference.\u201d He goes on to elaborate, \u201cI once helped an organisation build a first-aid bicycle team. 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