Yes, I have been thinking a lot during this weekend, believe or not. I even use the thinking method adopted from Chief Inspector Morse, so it must be quite international and fits to the spirit of the MINE program.
I think that all the mentors should have been sharing the same accomodation for further discussions and experience sharing chit chats. That's how it should be arranged next time and I am alredy sad that I will not be there sharing that experience. But on the other hand I am happy that some other Finnish mentors will be able to participate a great experience like this.
I also decided that I have to study more about Learning Theories, which shows that more information one gets, more eagerly he wants to know more. Even old farts like me. I remember after graduation soon after the II World War, I swore I will never read again. Anything.
Have to admit that I have broken this oath several times, but now ths experience has been so strong that even a lazy ba...rd like me has to start studying (just part time or as a hobby of course, my medication is not strong enough for that yet).
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Weekend thoughts,
Had a great time yesterday. Met 2 of my former colleguees from Phillippines after 10 years since we last met. We worked in Nationa Guard Hospital in Jeddah Saudi Arabia, and now he had to list all former collegues and share information what we know about their latest adventures. Also shared our own histories as well.
Went to see the Buckingham Palace, London Eye (didn't get in because of the long que), Big Ben and had a lunch of grilled chicken in Nando's and visited for the first time Starbucks (Mmmmm, good Latte). Also visited Harrods and saw the Lady Di & Dodi Memorial. Later in the evening found a warm cozy pub just in the neighbourhood of the Russel Square tube station.
So I am much richer with this kind of experiences as well, thanks to the MINE project.
Went to see the Buckingham Palace, London Eye (didn't get in because of the long que), Big Ben and had a lunch of grilled chicken in Nando's and visited for the first time Starbucks (Mmmmm, good Latte). Also visited Harrods and saw the Lady Di & Dodi Memorial. Later in the evening found a warm cozy pub just in the neighbourhood of the Russel Square tube station.
So I am much richer with this kind of experiences as well, thanks to the MINE project.
Friday, 5 February 2010
Free floating comments about the week....
Knowing that the Hunterian Museum lost 2/3 of the collection makes me angry. As being some sort of a collector myself, not medical artifacts anyway, I am a bit sad and bitter for the Germans. Luckily what was remained is nicely displayed and obviously treated with love and care.
The London subway really is something. One can go very far very quickly and cheaply. We have one straight line in Helsinki and that's it. Also I really like the pub culture.
I think that as mentors are trained to be mentors in Italy and in Malta, we Finnish mentors should get more support from our employers and maybe from the universities as well. There should be at least a contact person, who updates us in general matters, not only when we expect to get new students. Aspecially now that at least in my hospital, the Clinical Instructor informs us about new students, we have even less contact with teachers. Nowadays some of the teachers do not show up for for the final evaluations.
The London subway really is something. One can go very far very quickly and cheaply. We have one straight line in Helsinki and that's it. Also I really like the pub culture.
I think that as mentors are trained to be mentors in Italy and in Malta, we Finnish mentors should get more support from our employers and maybe from the universities as well. There should be at least a contact person, who updates us in general matters, not only when we expect to get new students. Aspecially now that at least in my hospital, the Clinical Instructor informs us about new students, we have even less contact with teachers. Nowadays some of the teachers do not show up for for the final evaluations.
Huh huh, now that it seems to be working, or I am learning how to use it, I will create another chapter of intelligent text.
So far I have been amazed about the cohesion in the group and how eagerly everybody is willing to participate. Obviously it was about time for a program like this. We all have same goal which is getting mentoring better and we also share same problems, no matter the country.
My next idea is, now we finally are getting training how to be better mentors, I'd like to participate a mentor exhange program. I would like to go abroad some ward where they have Finnish students and for example work there for example for a week with one of the mentors. Then he/she might later on come to my ward where I mentor Erasmus students every now and them. I have mentored foreign exhange students for 15 years an Finnish students even longer.
About foreign students we had a discussion yesterday in our mentor group until we had to quit because of the other programme. The question was about information we get before the placement and someone in my group might have missunderstood my point when I said that I want to know from which country the student comes from. In some East European countries the nursing student is trained directly for team leaders, i.e. bosses of several nursing assistances and these students have had motivation problems while being in placements in Finnish hospitals as they do not want to do basic nursing like bedbaths etc. This just to clarify my point. Of course I do not want to stereotype people, it is just matter of facts.
So far I have been amazed about the cohesion in the group and how eagerly everybody is willing to participate. Obviously it was about time for a program like this. We all have same goal which is getting mentoring better and we also share same problems, no matter the country.
My next idea is, now we finally are getting training how to be better mentors, I'd like to participate a mentor exhange program. I would like to go abroad some ward where they have Finnish students and for example work there for example for a week with one of the mentors. Then he/she might later on come to my ward where I mentor Erasmus students every now and them. I have mentored foreign exhange students for 15 years an Finnish students even longer.
About foreign students we had a discussion yesterday in our mentor group until we had to quit because of the other programme. The question was about information we get before the placement and someone in my group might have missunderstood my point when I said that I want to know from which country the student comes from. In some East European countries the nursing student is trained directly for team leaders, i.e. bosses of several nursing assistances and these students have had motivation problems while being in placements in Finnish hospitals as they do not want to do basic nursing like bedbaths etc. This just to clarify my point. Of course I do not want to stereotype people, it is just matter of facts.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
I thought I made it....
I made it Alex was my first sentence in my blog and then a long list of extremely good comments of the program and huge load of flattering and polite sentences etc.... I even called myself the BLOG MAN while being happy to be able to do this blog, just before I lost the whole text by prewiewing it. So this chapter is short as I want to be sure I can save this for the MINE pages.
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