Hello everybody!
We're in London just from 4 days, but I just feel to say it's a fantastic exsperience.
In only few days i saw different nurse's reality, met new internatiol friends, but above all did something concrete which I will be able to take with me in my course.
I'm so enthusiast by this intensive program, that I believe this will be an argument of my dissertation.
I'm so interested about the mentorship because just before I knew about this project, i led a battle to insert a professional figure in a ward who could help the students and who could teach them during the training, overcoming the gap between theory and practice.
I know that the guidelines, which will be produced, will be useful to the Mentors involved in the Erasmus programe, but i think that from here we can start to improve the student's situation also in my reality.
Now I can return at home and say: this is the Europe nursing situation and we're Europe.
So as students we have the right to learn, and as future'nurses we have the duty to teach.
I believe that in Italia we could expand the strenghts, for example the big theorycal learning, and improve the weakness of the course, such as the absentee of the mentor's figure.
These are my reflections and my goals for this intensive programe.
For me it would be a pleasure if you could tell me your opinions and your ideas for the "after program".
See you tomorrow morning guys and enjoy the show those who will go at the teatre tonight!
PS- Sorry for my english!
Vincenza
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Hi Vincenza,
ReplyDeletewow - what a long posting!!!! You clearly appear to be a fighter which is great! I am sure you will leave and return to Italy with a much clearer picture in your head of how things can be in the future in Italy, in terms of good clinical supervision. Remember, that lassive change always takes time!! And that you must listen very carefully over these next few days and throw in your perspectives and views, and opinions to the discussion - but ultimately italy must have a system that suits its social, political, economic and cultural context!!
Hi Vincenza
ReplyDeletelove the title of your blog, and your first post certainly was explosive. It sounds like you have some real plans and hopefully the reflective process of keeping this blog will help you to get clear in your mind those things you see working in your own clinical setting and provide you with a great network of support.
Hi Michelle and Hi Alex.
ReplyDeleteI love the idea to create a blog; infact i believe it's a very useful tool for the exchange of information, opinions, etc...
So i wanted to ask you if it's possible to invite my nursing student friends to read this blog and, if they want, to comment my post (if it's not possible now during the project, also after the end of this, for me it will always be a pleasure!).
About the Italian situation, when i listened at the Maltese students say "with Michelle's help we could make all this in so little time" for me it was conforting.
I know that the Maltese reality is so little, but I hope that we will be able to do the same thing starting from the Florence situation and after export a batter system in all the italian nursing realities.
I just know that for this it's necessary many years, but we're young, vocational and very interested in this question.
I believe there are the bases to improve and the power of will also.
So we will see in a few years.
Bye
Hi Vincenza, you have put a lot of thought and work into this so far, and asking your peers what they thought was a good mentor was a great idea. You need to feed this into your work to develop the toolkits now.
ReplyDeleteAs far as the blog is concerned, it's great to her your enthusiasm for it, Alex really wants to evaluate this, and having decided to use these approaches for this programme I am keen to follow it up too. Meeting students 'on their own ground' is very important, and hence as teachers we need to communicate with students in ways they find comfortable ( bit of humanistic learning theory in there I think, and bit of andragogy !).
However, one question it has raised for me, particularly as we have a range of first languages in our group, is whether if students are blogging educationally, should they write in some form of academic style ? I say this because some students are blogging in text speak - and I don't feel comfortable with that - but it could just be me ! Looking forward to next week !
Vincenza, your approach is great! Indeed, once we recognize our strenghts and weaknesses, we can identify ways to exploit strenghts and to make up for weaknesses. It is good to see your willingness to fight for it being aware that this is a long term goal. Looking at things from the perspective that we are here now with our different systems, each with its own strenghts and weaknesses, will be the job for the next few days.
ReplyDeleteHi Vincenza
ReplyDeletejust to say I think it is a fine to invite your friends to read and comment on your blog, after all this is your blog and I would hope that even after the MINE programme you would continue to use it as a way of collaborating and exchanging idea's. Part of using technology like this for me is that used well it can put the student at the centre and in control of there own learning. It creates a community of practice that will hopefully serve you well and be a resource for your future development as a Nurse.
So please go ahead and share.
Hello everybody!
ReplyDeleteAbout the best style of language for the our blogs, I believe we started without specifics indications.
So someone prefers to write in academic style, instead someone else in an informal language.
This choice facilitate the creativity and the personal attitudes.
But at the same time, a formal and academic language is preferred to create something professional and credible. Moreover it's best for another reason: those who partecipate to this discussions come from different countries.
So the use the standard code facilitates the exchange of information from different places.
For me it's already so difficult this way, that I can't imagine what would happen if all the students used in their blogs their informal expressions!