Today we have decided all together the 5 main topics of the tool-kit and all the points that we want to deepen for each topic too. We have also established the sequence of events during the presentation. I think that for Friday we should prepare a general power point presentation about the complete tool-kit`s structure with it`s five topics and lower-points. But I think that it`s also important that each country prepares another power point work (that we could print and deliver to the people on Friday and that doesn`t need so much time to make) in which every country presents the same tool-kit structure that we have decide together this morning but with the various differences between the countries. I`m sure that in this way our next days activity should be more quick and operative. We have to wear the clothes of an exchange student that wants to come in Italy, for example, and when he opens the web site`s page of the tool-kit he doesn`t find only the informations of his interest but a series of links about every country put together under the same topic. I think that we could instead organize the tool-kit country by country also for leaving an indicative and clear guide for the guys that will work on this projects the next years.
This is my opinion...
bye!
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Monday, 8 February 2010
Abroad Experience`s Importance 1
The reason why I decided to take part to EIP was knowing other nursing situations and taking from them new inputs and stimulus. Before I left, a big condition of permanent apathy had grown in me because my nursing experience had become monotonous and I didn`t see a way to change anyway.
But now...
Some people I met here gave me the proof that there is the possibility to change the wrong things if you really want it. And this is a very important input, isn`t it? This is very important for me because it will give me the strength to go on my nursing "journey".
I`m honest, I like Italian nursing course in the way it is conceived, but I don`t like the mentality of most of the people who work in it. I think that this should be the big change the Italian nursing has to do also with taking seriously the laws about mentors and mentorship.
I think that if you want to change "the system" you first have to change the people`s mentality but it isn`t simple especially in such political reality like the Italian one. I`d like that the Italian nursing students right now could free themselves from a repressed way of teaching based only on control and notions.
We are not pupils!
We are university students!!
I`m so amazed by the fact that in other countries the student can choose his goals on his own with a mentor relationship based on personal growth and not on submission. This thing could totally change the Italian nursing student`s life!
But, I do not agree with some ways of considering the Practical Learning: I think it`s too protective with the students (or with the patients?). I don`t understand the reason of postponing some nursing competencies "maybe dangerous" instead of teaching them as soon as possible in order to let the students become more confident about them once they will be nurses.
So, what is the importance of the abroad experience?
An abroad experience makes you discover other different realities that could give you new points of view for growing like a person, like a student and like a professional.
It puts all your limits in front of you and at the same time gives you the possibility to get over them.
It opens your mind and your eyes.
It increases your self-esteem and your self-confidence.
It shows you that if you feel yourself stuck in your "everyday life", maybe you can find what you`re searching for around the corner.
It teaches you that doubting isn`t a bad thing but the right way to grow! I think that the secret for having a nursing professional improvement day by day is learning/teaching people to doubt, to considerate other points of view and other perspectives, to go in depth through things, to be passionate about Research, as it is the only thing that satisfies and answers your questions.
It`s all for the moment...
ire.
But now...
Some people I met here gave me the proof that there is the possibility to change the wrong things if you really want it. And this is a very important input, isn`t it? This is very important for me because it will give me the strength to go on my nursing "journey".
I`m honest, I like Italian nursing course in the way it is conceived, but I don`t like the mentality of most of the people who work in it. I think that this should be the big change the Italian nursing has to do also with taking seriously the laws about mentors and mentorship.
I think that if you want to change "the system" you first have to change the people`s mentality but it isn`t simple especially in such political reality like the Italian one. I`d like that the Italian nursing students right now could free themselves from a repressed way of teaching based only on control and notions.
We are not pupils!
We are university students!!
I`m so amazed by the fact that in other countries the student can choose his goals on his own with a mentor relationship based on personal growth and not on submission. This thing could totally change the Italian nursing student`s life!
But, I do not agree with some ways of considering the Practical Learning: I think it`s too protective with the students (or with the patients?). I don`t understand the reason of postponing some nursing competencies "maybe dangerous" instead of teaching them as soon as possible in order to let the students become more confident about them once they will be nurses.
So, what is the importance of the abroad experience?
An abroad experience makes you discover other different realities that could give you new points of view for growing like a person, like a student and like a professional.
It puts all your limits in front of you and at the same time gives you the possibility to get over them.
It opens your mind and your eyes.
It increases your self-esteem and your self-confidence.
It shows you that if you feel yourself stuck in your "everyday life", maybe you can find what you`re searching for around the corner.
It teaches you that doubting isn`t a bad thing but the right way to grow! I think that the secret for having a nursing professional improvement day by day is learning/teaching people to doubt, to considerate other points of view and other perspectives, to go in depth through things, to be passionate about Research, as it is the only thing that satisfies and answers your questions.
It`s all for the moment...
ire.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
first of all...
It`s February the 4th of 2010, I`m in London and I`m writing from an internet cafe in Archway. The weather is cold outside and grey and I`m quarreling with the keyboard of this PC because it`s a little bit different from mine: 20 minutes to find the way of write the "@" !!!!!!!!
Until now, these days have been so intensive and full of contrasting feelings. I`m enthusiastic but at the same time I`m scared because I`ve got a lot of problems to get the others to understand my English. It`s difficult for me to finish an english sentence because I`ve studied English when I attended high school but then I never had the opportunity to have an english conversation with someone in Pistoia. I`m so sorry for the guys that are obliged to talk with me, I know that it`s an exhausting thing but I`m so rusty in english conversation!!!! But I want to take this like a challenge, trying to do the best that I can do ( especially after 1 drink)!!! ;)
There is another challenge for me: the fried food!!! So so so good! But I think that tonight I`m gonna have a vegeterian, purifying dinner!!!!
I gotta go...
bye.
Until now, these days have been so intensive and full of contrasting feelings. I`m enthusiastic but at the same time I`m scared because I`ve got a lot of problems to get the others to understand my English. It`s difficult for me to finish an english sentence because I`ve studied English when I attended high school but then I never had the opportunity to have an english conversation with someone in Pistoia. I`m so sorry for the guys that are obliged to talk with me, I know that it`s an exhausting thing but I`m so rusty in english conversation!!!! But I want to take this like a challenge, trying to do the best that I can do ( especially after 1 drink)!!! ;)
There is another challenge for me: the fried food!!! So so so good! But I think that tonight I`m gonna have a vegeterian, purifying dinner!!!!
I gotta go...
bye.
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