Her Story
About Connie
My career has taken me through many different roles in education, technology, and healthcare. I started as a high school teacher, then worked at Intel as a trainer and at Acer as a technical writer. I spent 4 years in Taiwan before coming to the US to continue my technical writing work. After having two home births in San Jose, I became passionate about natural childbirth and spent 3 years as a full-time mother studying home birth and midwifery. This led me to write my first e-book, 'Birthing Ways, Healing Ways,' published in 2000. I then worked as a pharmacy technician instructor for 9 months, drawing on my Bachelor of Science in Mathematics with a minor in Chemistry. For the past 15 years, I've been running Mother Health LLC Home Care, a caregiving agency where I train caregivers holistically to provide consistent, high-quality care to seniors in their homes. I personally mix massage oils and bed bath solutions, and ensure my caregivers provide everything from daily massages to gourmet homemade meals for bed-bound clients. I've published more than 10 e-books on Amazon, with 9 published just last year. I'm a board member of the Lions Club Executive Club in Milpitas, California, where I volunteer and provide free health seminars. Next month, I'll be starting my Master's in Public Health at Liberty University because I want to become a teacher for nurses and manage a hospital. I know what the gaps are in healthcare, especially around staffing and quality of care, and I want to make a greater impact in addressing these issues.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Connie
01What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
I know what the gaps are in the health arena. The biggest gap right now is about care. They're trying to save money, so the headcount is not there. Because of private equity, they buy a hospital and cut the headcount. Sometimes in one floor of a hospital, there's only one RN and the rest are certified nurse assistants. There's also a shortage of nursing students and people going into nursing as a whole. When I had my home birth, the corporate world was not using nursing rooms. I was even in a courtroom because HR would not allow me to pump my breast milk inside the regular bathroom, even though there was a nursing room. After that event, I see a lot of offices now have nursing rooms for mothers to pump their breast milk. It happened because I saw and fought for that at that time.
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