Allora... Like we are
used to say in Italy. Now we have been in intensive care and geriatric practice
almost 3 weeks. And what we can say about it? First days were really
interesting and the most difficult days for us. We didn’t understand a lot of
Italian. Only a very few doctors and students understood and spoke a little bit English, but nurses couldn’t say
anything in English. It made our days very difficult because we spent the most of
the time with nurses but we coped with it. On the first days we just watched
what and how nurses did (different procedures and compared it with how our Estonian
nurses do the same procedures). Later we started to do some procedures with
nurses or alone (for example skin prick-test, spirographia, measuring blood
pressure, taking blood analyses, doing EKG, measuring blood sugar, inserting
intravenous canul etc). It was difficult to explain to the patient what we are
going to do, so the nurses or students came with us and spoke with patient. But
some main phrases we learned on first days (for example how to introduce
yourself, lay down for EKG, be calm, taking blood etc). During practice we have learned Italian and
teached some English and Estonian to Italians.
On free time we communicate with other Erasmus students and
travel with them to the differnet Italian cities. We already have been to
Manfredonia and Mattinata. We really liked Mattinata for its beauty of
mountains and the sea. And we celebrated Kaupo's 24 birthday with other Erasmus students. So for now that is all. Ci vediamo! Ciao!
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