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.