Mentoring on Italian Mine Wiki

I believe that a wiki is one of the most usefull way to provide information. The new version is catchier and more exhaustive: it will certainly have a great success.
Looking at the section on "Mentoring in Italy", however, I do feel a little sorry. Although our ethical code provides for continuing self-education and considers a professional duty the participation in educational training activities for future nurses, most nurses are not able to interact with students, particularly on the human side. They are generally very good professionists, but they are usually  overwhelmed by duties and thus they are not able to follow students adequately. Maybe in Italy, to foster the development of mentorship, it may be convenient to motivate nurses by raising wages and partly reducing the amount of time dedicated to patients in favor of time dedicated to students. A similar strategy has been followed in Denmark, according to what Louisa from the Danish delegation told us. 
I really hope things may change in the future, we will try hard to play our part in this change!


Francesca

Trip to Raauma and interesting meetings

Yesterday part of the MINE group went to Raauma. Wandering around town, me and other of us found a little shop of organic food and other biological finnish products. Connected to the store there was a very nice café and (surprise!) the barman was an Italian man from Udine (in the north of our country) married with a finnish woman. They've got two daughters, the first one was born in Italy and the second one in Finland, and they've lived permanently in Raauma since two years. We told him that we were nursing students and we had visited the hospital and the ER of Pori. Finnish health system, we said, seemed to us very efficient.
Concerning his experience they told us that the health reality is not always so happy.
Public administration decided to centralize the most important health care services in Pori, leaving population of Raauma and other isolated cities around without a good healthy assistance. This, he said, brings to the farmilies some difficulties because they don't have an approperly  pediatrician assistance and for the treatment of some of the most severe pathologies they have to drive a lot.
Moving away  health care basic services from little and isolated communities it's a way, he said, to urge people to address to the private health assistance and this is a very big  injustice in this country because its inhabitants pay a lot of taxes.
We were very surprise from his words : Pori wards seemed to us so well organized, efficient, almost perfect. But "perfection" doesn't exist anywhere.

In Italy there's a byword, "Non è tutto ora quello che luccica", trad.: "Not all the shining things are made of gold".

Comments about video stories

Tuesday morning, when I saw the video stories of the American nurses that MINE staff shown us, I had the same sensation that I fill when I see some American movies. I felt like I was watching something of very spectacular and not a rappresentation of some true experiences. I do not doubt about the sincerity and the depth of these sensitive people. What I don't like that much is the sensational style used to tell about their lives. The images, the music (so dramatic!), the voice in the foreground... all these things seem to be directed at  impressing the audience at any cost.
Instead, I think that some experiences are very common in the life of any nurses (or physicians, or other professionists who deal with the care of the people) and it's not necessary making these things spectacular to avoid they become trite and banal.
But, I have to admit that my thought is influenced by a certain italian conviction - intellectual conviction - whereby something that's too much appealing to the general public isn't truly "genuine".
I admit that I have a little prejudice.