INTRODUCTION

 Pre-arrival tasks
 Introduction video
 Facebook conversations
 2-week intensive course
 Blogs
 Tool kit
 Post-meeting tasks
 Digital story of experiences
Facebook
Introduction videos
Finland
Malta
Florence
 WHAT IS A BLOG?
 A personal diary
 A collaborative space
 A collection of links
 Memos to the world
How does blogging fit into MINE?
 Keeping in contact
 Encourages reflective thinking
 Encourages collaborative learning
 Expands mental horizons
 Provides a ready forum for problem solving

 Kaisas blog
 ERASMUS EXCHANGE

Choose country

Malta
LINKS
Finland
STORIES
Italy
FORUM
UK
 Malta
Environment
MALTA
Hospitals
• ENVIRONMENT
Mentors
• HOSPITALS
University
• MENTORS

• STUDENT FACILITIES

• LAWS
 Malta
ENVIRONMENT

Accommodation MALTA
ENVIRONMENT
Country

• Accommodation
City

• Country
Student facilities

• City

• Student facilities
ENVIRONMENT
 Aims and Objectives

Accom
CountrStudent
In case of
m-
y/CityFacilities
Sickness
odation
 Country/City
• General information
• Language and knowledge of English
• Weather
• Time Zone
• Cost of Living: food, transports & renting
• Visa
• Vaccinations
• Phone cards & SIMS
• Main Laws & Restrictions
• Sight seeing, leisure & night life
• Opening hours & public holidays
 Accommodation
 Location
 Internet access
 Objects needed
 Places of interest
 Student Facilities

• Learning
Resources
• Canteen
• Advantages for
students
• Language courses
 Sickness
• Health care national system
• EU Health Insurance card (E111)
• Emergency Issues
• Pharmacies & prescription
• Assigned Doctor
HOSPITAL AND THE
WARDS
 Key Information Needed
1. Different wards and hospitals you can do your
placement
2. Uniforms
3. Schedules
4. Recreation
5. Maps, Locations and transport
6. Library, internet access, facilities
7. Links to hospitals
8. Vaccinations, MRSA and VRE testing
 Different hospitals and ward specialities
you can do your placement
 London: Royal Free Hospital, Whittington
Hospital;
 Pori: Satakunta Central Hospital
 Malta: Mater Dei Hospital
 Italy: Careggi, Florence; Meyer, Florence;
Misericordia E Dolce, Prato; RSA Narnali,
Prato; General Hospital San Giovanni Valdarno
 Uniforms

 Different uniforms of staff to be able to

distinguish them
 What kind of uniform or shoes will the student
be wearing
 Laundry services at hospital
 Forum: would you rather wear your own
uniform to be recognised as a foreign student?
 Schedules

Finland have a morning shift from 7.00 to 15.00, evening

shift from 13.00/14.00 to 21.00/22.00 and nightshift from
21.00 to 7.15.

Malta have day shift from 7.00 to 19.00, night shift from
19.00 to 7.00, morning shift from 7.00 to 13.30.

Italy have a morning shift from 7.00 to 14.00, evening shift

from 14.00 to 21.00 and nightshift from 21.00 to 7.00.

London have day shift from 8.00 to 20.30, night shift from
20.00 to 8.30.
 Recreation

 Staff room in the ward

 Staff Canteen
 Winter garden
 Restaurants nearby
 Maps, Locations and transport

 Links to maps of the university and the

hospital wards, the whereabouts and the town
 Transport in the country and links to preferred
transportation eg. underground (oyster card),
monthly card, buses information
 Visual tour of hospitals
 Library, internet access, facilities

 Wi-Fi internet access in computer labs and in

ward in certain countries
 Library in university and hospital
 Access to internet facilities explanation
 Accommodation internet access
 Links to internet providers
 Links to Hospitals
• Finland, Pori:
http://www.satshp.fi/portal/page?_pageid=99,1&_dad=wportal&_sche
ma=WPORTAL

• Malta: https://ehealth.gov.mt/healthportal/default.aspx

• U.K, London:
http://www.royalfree.nhs.uk/default.aspx?top_nav_id=1&tab_id=113;
http://www.whittington.nhs.uk/default.asp?c=144

• Italy, Firenze, Prato, San Giovanni Valdarno:

http://www.aou-careggi.toscana.it/internet/index.php;
http://www.ao-meyer.toscana.it/homepage_2.php?IDCategoria=1;
http://www.usl4.toscana.it/?act=i&fid=3433&id=20090414161430470;
http://www.usl4.toscana.it/?act=i&fid=919&id=20090610133334533;
• http://www.comune.san-giovanni-valdarno.ar.it/ospedale.asp
 Vaccinations, MRSA and VRE testing

 Mostly taken care of before departure

 MRSA and VRE for Finland
 If positive medication is to be undertaken for 6
weeks (Bactroban)
 Test is to be undertaken again in Finland
MENTORS AND
ASSESSMENT
 PRE-ARRIVAL TASKS

•
Facebook groups and emails

•Information about the allocated

ward

•Placement assessment
 ON ARRIVAL
•Meet the buddy, mentor and link lecturer
•Brief introduction about oneself
Assessment Documents

England Italy Malta Finland

Document PLD Ministerial Practice The
used =Practice law about Portfolio assessment
Learning the health of clinical
Document professions practice in
(2001) nursing
care
 NURSING MODELS
All countries use the same model : Roper-Logan-
Tierney Model

In Italy other models are used apart from the

Roper et al Model eg: Carpenito’s Model in
Florence
 Operational Differences
England Italy Malta Finland

What can be Most skills Most skills Any skill but Any skill, if a
done? drugs should qualified
be nurse
administered observes
under and/or takes
supervision responsibility
What can’t be • Cannulation • Emogas Cannulation
done? •I.V medication and
•Escort patients Venipuncture
 AFTER THE PLACEMENT

•End of placement meeting

•Student
•Mentor
•Link lecturer
 Feedback Page
. STUDENT’S FEEDBACK . MENTOR’S FEEDBACK
THE MENTORS
LAW AND THE
SYSTEM
 Code of Ethics

 University Website

 Rules and Regulations

 Code of Ethics
• Consent
• Confidentiality
• Dignity
• Privacy
• Accountability
• Responsibility
• Life-Long Learning
• Teaching Students
 Links
English Code of Ethics
 Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)

www.nmc-uk.org

Finnish Code of Ethics

 Ethical Guidelines of Nursing

www.sairaanhoitajaliitto.fi
 Links
Italian Code of Ethics
 Codice Deontologico

www.ipavi.it/professiona/content.asp?ID=19

Maltese Code of Ethics

-Maltese Code of Ethics for Nurses and Midwives
http://www.sahha.gov.mt/showdoc.aspx?id=37&f
ilesource=4&file=nmcodeofethics.pdf
 University Website
 Maps of Campuses
 University E-mail
 Modules
 Examination Results
 Access to Database
 Virtual Learning Environment
 Rules and Regulations
 Attendance

 Uniform Policy

 Lectures and Clinical Placements

 Semester Organisation
 Website Links
• Middlesex University
www.mdx.ac.uk
• Satakunta University of Applied Sciences
http://www.samk.fi/english
• Florence University
www.unifi.it
• University of Malta
http://www.um.edu.mt/
STUDENT TUTOR
‘BUDDY’
 What is student tutor?
 Student tutor is someone who:
 Provides information to the exchange student
 Acts as a guide in a new environment
 Supportive
 Able to communicate with student in their language
 To ensure student has a base of successful social
experience
 Student tutor in SAMK
 Each international student gets an international
tutor – this is a Finnish student that is
responsible for guiding an exchange student,
helping him/her with the first steps in Finland
(bureaucracy, courses, enrolments, passwords
…)
PURPOSE OF STUDENT TUTOR
 Being in contact with exchange student before
the exchange programme starts e.g. facebook,
e-mail
 Meeting the student on a day of arrival
 Help the student with settling down into the
normal day of student life
 Showing around the campus and town
Why should every exchange country have
a student tutor?
 Provides support for international student through
difficult situations and periods of transition
 Increase confidence
 Allows the student to adjust more quickly
 Assist the student to cope with a new cultural
environment
 Provide the student with more personal,
continuous and longer lasting support
 Encourage integration
 Credits (in Finland 3 credits)
To make these lonely students into…
Not only into these small groups but…
This!! Multi cultural family!!!!
Deleted scenes
Free drinks for
everyone!
English Pub

Maltese turned out to

be very fond of
alcohol, too. The
Finnish and the
Maltese are the best
friends now!
…Beer makes you pee. Vodka makes you pee in
public.
 Night club

Our group really knows how to party. We put the

british youth in shame. (Not the easiest thing to do in
this case!)
Having the times of their lives
Museum
We couldn’t
take photos
from the
museum.
That was ok,
the girls
acted it out.
 Fish and chips

Their mothers apparently didn’t tell

them not to play with their food.
Duck tour

For some of us, the duck tour wasn’t so

exciting. Alexis is actually imagining a cup
of vodka in her hand.