English as Second Language Nurses!

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Hello! I am a new nurse in an oncology unit at a major hospital. English is my second language and Chinese being my first. I moved to the states when I was 10 years-old. I will try to keep this post short, but I have encountered a lot of difficulties at work related to English being my second language. I have a problem related to pronouncing doctors' names and medications that I haven't seen before. I am still orienting to the floor. I come home everyday and learn all the medications that my patients had. I know there is no short cut to my solution but I need someone who can relate to me and give me some support as a mentor. I feel so incompetent compared to another new nurse who has started with me. I know everyone learns differently and at a different pace. For my project on my off days, I have been relearning English pronunciation to improve my English at work. For my whole life as a Chinese immigrant, I have thrived to be the same as everyone else. I do have an accent and I am not ashamed of it. Any support and suggestion will be greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for reading.

P.S. My grammar is not the best in the world either, hope you don't mind! I posted this post in First Year Forum and I reposted this Forum hoping I can get more responses.

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Consider a drug guide for your phone; you can look things up quickly while at work, and some offer guides that show you how to pronounce the medication.

Also, don't feel bad; it is so difficult achieving comfortable fluency; a friend is trying to teach me Vietnamese and I am terrible. On the bright side, it gives us both something to laugh about as I repeatedly mispronounce words! It's a process.