By: Angelina Rivera
After changing majors from psychology to nursing, Kevin Wang graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 2015, which helped land him a job as a pediatric nurse at the Guam Regional Medical City.
As a pediatric nurse, Wang used his Art minor to entertain and calm his patients down in his unit at GRMC.
When he is not working he would be train for half marathons.
“I decided to change my major because I had an interest in the medical field and art therapy, so because i was able to use art therapy in nursing, I knew it would be perfect,” Wang said. “Art is like a hobby, and doing this as a nurse would make work not seem like work, but more like playing at work.”
Wang plays his guitar or gives out coloring books to his pediatric patients, which helps them relax. He was planning to go into mental health or pediatrics field because art therapy seemed like a temporary healing process.
“As a nurse in general, we love the feeling of parents recognizing how hard we work to save their child’s life. Signing to the kids not only calms me down, but also warms my heart from their smiles,” Wang said
Besides work, and when he has the change, Wang enjoys working out, playing baseball, and running. He has over 300 bibs from all the 5K races he ran, and he has competed in 16 half marathons and one marathon.
“I run for fun, but I’m trying to train hard to run in a half marathon in Japan or somewhere in the states, mainly California,” Wang said.
Wang is not a quitter. During a half-marathon, in the sixth mile, he sprained his left medial collateral ligament, which is a band of tissue inside the knee that connects the thigh bone and lower leg.
“Although I was in a lot of pain, I decided to walk the last 7.9 miles because I wanted to finish what I started and I placed second to last place,”Wang replied.
Wang started running for track in the seventh grade. After high school, he moved to running 5 kilometer races and long distance.
“Running is a stress reliever, so you would hardly see me stressed or mad, which is why I believe I’m good in the pediatric field,” Wang.
Wang was born on September September 15, 1991, and is Taiwanese and Filipino.
For more information, email Kevin Wang at kai_wang 25@live.com