Pori here we come!!

Hi everybody

I guess by now, everyone has prepared his bags for Pori. It seems that we will have a lot of snow and a freezing temp. waiting for us! Browsing the pages of the handbook, there are a variety of activities and tasks that we have to do and participate in. It looks interesting and I am really looking forward now to kick start this learning experience. Apart from sharing my own knowledge and nursing experience with other fellow professionals, it will be useful to discover what other practitioners think and and how they perform in the clinical settings. The students that are part of the Maltese group are really geared up for this event and, in my opinion, all this will serve to prepare them for their upcoming exams and subsequently in their work with the patients. Mentorship is a wonderful asset that all nursing professionals must be engaged in, because sharing, guiding and preparing students for their academical and practical experiences can be really rewarding. From my own experience, I am really disappointed that when I was studying, mentorship was never offered to us and you had to gain knowledge from different sources in the ward and from witnessing procedures being performed. 

All this has fortunately changed and today, students are mentored regularly by a good number of mentors in all hospitals in Malta.  

So, I hope everyone is well and prepared to meet in Finland for the MINE programme. We are scheduled to arrive in Helsinki on Saturday and then to Pori on Sunday all dressed up with layers and layers of clothing to keep ourselves warm and not die of freezing!!

See ya soon!