Samaritan Care Centre Volunteer Staff Profile: Yvette Ernestine Peters
Yvette became interested in nursing through her personal experience with three-year-old son Evan, who suffers from asthma and has to be hospitalized almost every month. High on her list of hopes for the future is that he will outgrow this debilitating condition.
Another entry point toward a career as a caregiver is the fact that several members of her extended family are working in this field. Currently, Yvette is doing her “Practicals” at the Samaritan Care Centre, as part of her training.
Two weeks into the experience, she already has learned a lot, for example how to give injections or how to take blood pressure. “It is very different when you work with real people, not practice with dolls at school”, she says. Lifting bedridden patients is the hardest task in her view – plus dealing kindly with their occasionally nasty behaviour.
Once she will have completed her practical experience, Yvette hopes to find employment at one of the local hospitals. Eventually she would like to become a professional nursing sister and be able to live in a house of her own.
Currently, Yvette and Evan stay with her mother, stepfather and younger sister in a rented house not far from the Centre. Her stepfather was the one who discovered the Samaritan Care Centre as a potential site for Yvette’s training. He himself works in the Daimler Chrysler assembly plant in East London. Hip replacement surgery caused him to be unemployed for over two years, but he has been back to work for several months now.
When Yvette is at the Samaritan Centre, her mother watches Evan. He is growing up with Afrikaans as his mother tongue, yet also learning English simultaneously. He will become one of many South Africans comfortable with two or three or even four languages.
Samaritan Care Centre, South Africa
Yvette became interested in nursing through her personal experience with three-year-old son Evan, who suffers from asthma and has to be hospitalized almost every month. High on her list of hopes for the future is that he will outgrow this debilitating condition.
Another entry point toward a career as a caregiver is the fact that several members of her extended family are working in this field. Currently, Yvette is doing her “Practicals” at the Samaritan Care Centre, as part of her training.
Two weeks into the experience, she already has learned a lot, for example how to give injections or how to take blood pressure. “It is very different when you work with real people, not practice with dolls at school”, she says. Lifting bedridden patients is the hardest task in her view – plus dealing kindly with their occasionally nasty behaviour.
Once she will have completed her practical experience, Yvette hopes to find employment at one of the local hospitals. Eventually she would like to become a professional nursing sister and be able to live in a house of her own.
Currently, Yvette and Evan stay with her mother, stepfather and younger sister in a rented house not far from the Centre. Her stepfather was the one who discovered the Samaritan Care Centre as a potential site for Yvette’s training. He himself works in the Daimler Chrysler assembly plant in East London. Hip replacement surgery caused him to be unemployed for over two years, but he has been back to work for several months now.
When Yvette is at the Samaritan Centre, her mother watches Evan. He is growing up with Afrikaans as his mother tongue, yet also learning English simultaneously. He will become one of many South Africans comfortable with two or three or even four languages.
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March 2008