Final MINE post

Hi everyone, sorry for my delay! 

I came back from Finland with a bad flu, and there were two oral exams waiting for me at my University, so... only today I found the time to concentrate myself on the final post! 

Sincerely, I've spent two very intense weeks in Finland, working, studying and "listening" to a language which unfortunately I didn't speak very well. But the hardest thing for me was face a way of teaching, learning and working together that I was not used to doing it in Italy. 

However, all the cultural differences I've known, they have been a true enrichment for me and for my education.

In spite of the many differences about the role of the nurse between our countries, the thing that struck me was this: our job is the same job everywhere. No matter what kind of skills and what kind of autonomy a nurse has. This profession is animated by the same spirit, everywhere.

To better explain what I mean, I will link a short tale about the 'Creation of nurse' . The author should be Erma Bombeck. The original title was “When God created mothers”, then someone changed 'mothers' with 'nurses', but I think it's even more suitable than the original-one. Our nurse-teacher of Pediatrics told it us the last year. It really touched me(althoug I am an atheist). Here is the link: http://www.poofcat.com/nurse7.html , I suggest you read it!

About the work that was done over the last three years, I think it's really very valuable and it would be a shame to lose it. Our delegation will work to put in the homepage of the Faculty of Medicine (University of Florence, of course) a link to MINE wiki. Thanks to this many guys willing to do Erasmus experience will access to all these useful informations.

I wish that in the future students will be more informed by their universities about what the Erasmus Program is and on how they should organize to do that, but also, I hope that European universities will promote the possibility for a student to do Erasmus, primarily increasing the places available for Erasmus students.

I would like to thank all those who have allowed me to participate in the MINE program. Thanks to Mirja, Airi, all the Finnish staff and the Finnish students who hosted and let us around like a perfect tour guides. Thanks to the teachers, the mentors, and the students for their help and for their cheerfulness. You made this experience incredible!

See you on FB

Francesca

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.

MINE -Mentoring In Nursing in Europe - 2012

Hi everybody, this is a blog that I created two years ago as an assignement for a class at my University.
I thought that current MINE-assignements might have been a good opportunity to refresh this website.
The aim of that class was about the prominence of the exchange of  knowledges and learnings on the web and how this is important for professionals who are constantly training, like nurses and physicians.
So I thought it was very connected with the theme of Mentoring and the job we're going to do in Pori...

Finally, if you are interested in an Italian language lesson, a few words about the title ...
"Infermieristica Informatica: Informazioni di Informatica Infermieristica, Informaticamente e Infermieristicamente Informate" is a wordplay which uses the repetition of nouns, adjectives and their adverbs, that have the same route "inf-":
Infermieristica means Nursing
Informatica it's both a noun that means 'information technology' or an adjective which indicates something about the computer science
Informazioni simply means 'informations'
Informate is a participle which come from the verb Informare (= 'to acquaint someone of something').
The translation should be this:
"Computer Nursing : Informations about Nursing  information technology, computationally and 'nursingally' acquainted".
(Of course, it sounds very droll also in Italian).

See you soon in Pori, guys!

Francesca

Assignement 4, 5, 5 bis, 5 tris e... No profit!

Causa preparazione esami per corsi non gentilmente online come quello d'informatica, sono stata assente da questo schermo a lungo.. anche perché quando mi ci metto, ci sverno.
Dunque su Coltivare le connessioni in realtà non ho un che da dire: molto interessante e mi trovo pressoché d'accordo su tutto (in realtà delle cose ce le ho da dire, ma meglio domani col sole).
Delicious è utilissimo, peccato che l'application per sincronizzarlo con chrome (io uso google chrome come browser) esiste da pochi giorni, e non funziona ancora bene. Per ora utilizzo il comando TAG ("salva in delicious") sulla barra delle applicazioni in alto a destra ogni volta che sono su una pagina interessante, ma non è simultaneo con i bookmarks di google, che uso tantissimo.
Per quanto riguarda il discorso generale su tag, condivisioni, fantastico mondo del Web, ecc. ecc. oltre a scorrazzare per delicious, ho editato la pagina "Assignement 5bis" del wiki della prof Agresti, sperando di essere modificata e ovviamente integrata, perché ho solo iniziato la descrizione orrenda di folksonomia.
Per quanto riguarda il TEST, aaaaaaaah.... punteggio bassissimo ma, magari, adesso ne so un po' di più.


Comunque, in quanto membro di un'associazione di volontariato, approfitto dell'occasione per per segnalare un decreto interministeriale or ora partorito che abolisce gli sconti postali per le associazioni di volontariato, come quella in cui sono io e molti altri, credo.

I costi per i servizi postali arriveranno a 5 volte tanto quello che paghiamo ed è un vero colpo mancino soprattutto per quegli enti che lavorano nel sociale (ATT, Medici Senza Frontiere, LAV, Emergency - per citarne fra i più famosi). 

Infatti, nonostante venga spontaneo lamentarsi per la montagna di volantini che intasa la buca delle lettere, è indubbio che il mezzo che meglio permette di arrivare alla popolazione è quello cartaceo, visto che quello televisivo è troppo costoso e quello telematico è ancora privilegio di pochi, per lo più molto giovani e poco interessati a certe tematiche assistenziali.

Porto l'esempio delle varie AT, come l'Associazione Tumori Toscana, con cui certamente non auguro a nessuno di avere a che fare ma, posso testimoniare, sopperisce spesso a immense lacune del sistema sanitario, soprattutto nella cura dei malati in fase terminale.

La normativa colpisce ovviamente tutti i gruppi che lavorano senza scopo di lucro in ambito culturale, artistico, teatrale e musicale, ecc.

In quanto membri di un ente No-Profit, o perché ne condividete la causa, invito chi non l'abbia già fatto a leggere e magari aderire alla petizione Contro l'aumento di tarriffe postali

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Basta, torno a studiare, anzi, a far cena che è l'ora giusta!


Salut!


Fra

La pipì delle donne

Questo pomeriggio mentre cercavo argomenti contro mia madre per dimostrarle che le donne tengono meno la pipì degli uomini mi sono imbattuta in un post troppo bello di una tipa pubblicato 2 anni fa, quindi ho deciso di "iniziarvelo qui", nel pieno rispetto della proprietà intellettuale e caxxi e mazzi vari. Potrete proseguire la lettura dell'email dell'amica di Lyn85 direttamente su bastardeinside.forumcommunity.net, da cui il pezzo è tratto:

 "Il grande segreto di tutte le donne rispetto ai bagni è che da bambina tua mamma ti portava in bagno, puliva la tavolozza, ne ricopriva il perimetro con la carta igienica e poi ti spiegava: 'MAI, MAI appoggiarsi sul gabinetto' e poi ti mostrava 'la posizione' che consiste nel bilanciarsi sulla tazza facendo come per sedersi ma senza che il corpo venga a contatto con la tavolozza.

'La posizione' è una delle prime lezioni di vita di una bambina, importantissima e necessaria, deve accompagnarci per il resto della vita. Ma, ancora oggi, da adulta, 'la posizione' è terribilmete difficile da mantenere quando hai la vescica che sta per esplodere.

Quando 'devi andare' in un bagno pubblico, ti ritrovi con una coda di donne che ti fa pensare che dentro ci sia Brad Pitt. Allora ti metti buona ad aspettare, sorridendo amabilmente alle altre che aspettano anche loro con le gambe e le braccia incrociate. E' la posizione ufficiale di 'me la sto facendo addosso'.

Finalmente tocca te, ma arriva sempre la mamma con 'la bambina piccola che non può trattenersi' e ne approfittano per passare avanti tutte  due!

A quel punto controlli sotto le porte per vedere se ci sono gambe. Sono tutti occupati. Finalmente se ne apre uno e ti butti addosso alla persona che esce. Entri e ti accorgi che non c'è la chiave (non c'è mai); non importa... (continua)"