Pittsburgh, a cold and wonderful city for me, in which, I spend memorable four months and achieve a lot.

First of all, I luckily own two kind mentors in School of Nursing, one is Gerri Maurer, a experienced clinical nurse, who instructs me a lot about the obstetric clinical teaching. The other is Irene Kane, a nice psychiatric expert and teacher, who gives me many constructive suggestions for my doctor subject and academic paper.

Secondly, in the aspect of course, I attend two Professional courses, Nursing Care of Mothers, Newborns, & Families and Nursing Care of Clients with Psychiatric Mental Health Problems. Each teacher shows the different teaching styles, concepts and methods. I am deeply inspired and actively explore how to integrate these advanced concepts and methods into my own teaching.

Thirdly, the library resources are very abundant in the University of Pittsburgh, and all of them are entirely open to all of the students and visiting scholars. I benefit a lot from these precious literatures. Without them, I cannot write and publish my first SCI article successfully.

In a word, Studying in Pittsburgh is over, but learning never ends.

  Ying Zhao

  2014-12-29