https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc The end of a long journey and the start of a new beginning en-us 2021-04-07 17:31:39 UTC 2023-04-28 10:45:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1124988071/fc7e59464a8a4224eee4dfbde72ee19f/inf_icona.jpg shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1392609507 It was quite a "hard" decision to make. 
When people says that life is unpredictable, it really is. I never really belived that, untill Covid hit the whole world, with all the tragedy that came with it.
 So when i found myself at home, doing nothing and feeling helpless, i started thinking about my life; started thinking that i could not waste my time waiting for a call from my company, or for the covid just to disappear.
So i decided to take up a path i actually put aside when i was 19; and that was a nursing carreer. 
It was hard at first, but felt that it was the right choice. 
Probabily a big part was played by my cousins and bestfriends. They're almost all in the medical field, and three of them are actually nurses. Talking with them was always inspiring, expecially because of how they felt accomplished and satisfied by what they do everyday. 
I just wanted to feel the same, to feel like your job can make people happy, can bring a smile and can actually help them . 
I was drawn to this path expecially for these reasons: feeling achived and be able to learn medical things, being able to save and make people happy everyday. 
To tell the truth, when i signed up for the test in september 2020, i applied for Midwife. That will be my ultimate target, even though i like very much this path, i'm sure i'll be liking delivering babies much more. And this is the reason why i'll be applying for the test next year too. 
  ]]> 2021-04-07 17:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1392609507 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437060943  Write at least 100 words

On a Monday morning a soon to be mom, Susan, goes to the hospital for an emergency check-up. As she enters the waiting room the receptionist talks to her.
Receptionist: Good morning madam, how can i help you?
Susan: Good Morning, i'm here for an emergency check up.
Receptionist: do you have an appointment for today?
Susan: I actually do not, but yesterday night i had a mild abdominal pain, followed by a small discharge of blood, so i thoungh it will be better for me to get a check up.
Receptionist: Are you still in pain now?
Susan: not at all, i'm just very concerned.
Receptionist: How many months pregnant are you?
Susan: I am to deliver my baby on the fifth of may. I just entered my 38th week.
Receptionist: Ok, let me call the doctor.
Receptionist (on the phone) :Hello doctor
Doctor: Yes?
Receptionist: Here's one of your patient, Susan. She had some abdominal pain yesterday night and had also a small discharge of blood. As she's dued in three weeks from now, she wanted to get a check up. She's actually not feeling any pain rigth now.
Doctor: Ok, let me just finish with the patient i have inside now. Let her sit in the waiting area. I'll be calling her in soon.
Receptionist: Perfect, thank you doctor.
(The receptionist ends the call)
Receptionist: Miss Susan, i just talked with the doctor, he'll call you as soon as he finish with the patient that is inside now.
Susan: Thank you so much!
Receptionist: You're welcome! You can find a sitting and i'll call you when he's ready to check on you.

]]> 2021-04-20 09:32:50 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437060943 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437144895 2021-04-20 10:07:24 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437144895 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437145308 Let's talk about a medical tv show known all over the world, and maybe also a boring one, as almost everyone knows it or have watched it already; i'm talking about Grey's Anatomy.
This tv show locate in Seattle; it started in 2005 and it consist of 17 seasons. 
It revolves around Meredith Grey, daughter of a famous surgeon. She is starting a residency program in the Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital, where she meets 4 other guys with whom she builds a fantastic friendship. Their story goes throughout a lot of different experiences, involving medical knowledge, accidents and incidents that brought many losses. Eventually along the various seasons, she grows up, and although with a difficult childhood memories, managed to give and recive love from a healthy relationship with one of the doctors of the hospital. The show is still ungoing and introduce (now and then) new characters whith whom is too easy to fall in love with. 
This, may be one of my favourite tv show of all time. It's a long journey, of constant love for the cast, the screenwriter, all together immerse in an extraordinary medical background.]]> 2021-04-20 10:07:35 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437145308 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437146038 ◦ I think that almost all the nurses choose this path mostly because of the REWARDING feeling that comes with having contact with patients.
◦ Many people outside the medical/hospital/assistance field doesn't know what AUXILIARY NURSES are; not even the great importance they have inside hospitals.
◦ In Italy after a three year degree at university, you can be considered a FULLY-QUALIFIED nurse.
◦ In my first placement i was really surprised by how often the LIFT was used and how crowded it was. There were only two lifts and they used to stop at each floor it was called to! It took so much for us to reach a specific floor.
◦ Every ward it's different from the others. For example in my ward, SAMPLES were taken to the lab by a porter. While i heard that in other wards they do not have porters but instead they have a mechanism called "bussola".
◦ Usually in the hospital you can't DISPOSE OF your waste in whatever bin you find. In fact every kind of waste  has it's own bin.
◦ TRIAGE NURSES  have many responsability, they have to decide based on the patient's simptoms and other specifics, in which order they get a check up
◦ Doctors and nurses works togethedressir to avoid any FATAL errors
◦ Miss Griffin has just booked a ginecology APPOINTMENT for her daughter
 ◦ Usually after an operation nurses have to wait a couple of days before changing DRESSINGS
◦ This year university have invited  students to take an online course to learn about CPR.
◦ A normal CIRCULATION is extremaly important, but people that have high cholesterol may incurr in circulation problems.
◦ Many women experience a very long and painful LABOUR, as a matter of fact one of my acquaintance had a 20h labour.
◦ PAIN RELIEF are used very often in those patients that are in agonizing pain
◦ LOCAL ANAESTHETICS  are used by doctors to make an operation or for example deliveries less painful and more enjoyable experience]]> 2021-04-20 10:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1437146038 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474744912 2021-04-29 16:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474744912 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474749678 2021-04-29 16:42:35 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474749678 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474752809 2021-04-29 16:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474752809 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474779376 2021-04-29 16:48:08 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1474779376 carolmarkino https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1484714420 Best,
Carol]]> 2021-05-03 11:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1484714420 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1917018837 Write at least 150 words

We all think and presume to know what a good nurse ought to be or do, but in my opinion there is not only one good “formula” that make a nurse, a GOOD nurse.
Probably for what everyone thinks of a good nurse, these should have an extremely good knowledge. It ranges on a deep knowledge of anatomy, patology, chemistry, pharmcology, surgery, procedures, assistance and so on. But above all the possible knowledge, a nurse should be passionate and compassionate. Nurses should be able to show the right amount of emotions, without getting too much involved. Showing kindness and humanity to people that are already suffering, in a piace that brings them disconfort, where they are usually alone. All these things surely help with building a good and competent nurse.
I’m actually in the process of growing and understanding how to be a good nurse, and which ability to focus on. In my case i found it more difficult to relate to the patients; for me that is the major obstacle. It’s simple to be kind and to care about the ones in front of you, but it’s totally another matter thinking of building a good relationship with them, sharing and talking about emotions and state of mind, that is actually a crucial point in being a good nurse. I’ll probably learn how-to in the future, while listening and looking, and studying my tutor ways of approching the patient. ]]> 2021-11-29 03:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1917018837 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924966881 Include the title of the article.  You can do the related exercises to help you understand the article better but it is not mandatory.
You should write 100- 150 words. If you want to write more , great!


“Typhoid Mary”
In this article it’s written the story of Mary Mallon. She was an Irish immigrant, and was the first known carrier of typhoid in the USA. She have never been aware of her condition, so she never got cured for that. 
This is an infection of the digestive system and is caused by the presence of the bacterium, Salmonella typh. It can be trasmitted through contaminated food and water. 
Mary in fact have contribuated dramatically to the trasmission of this disease as she was a cook, and worked in several workplace infecting other co-workers. In 1906 she was hired as a personal chef, and as out of 11 customers, 6 became ill with typhoid, George Soper was employed to search the cause of it. Not to say, that later on he foundout that all the typhoid out break had taken places where Mary had worked. She resisted and did not co-operate to the research, as she didn’t believe she could have been the cause, to all of that. Eventually  she was forced by police officers to go to a hospital. In here it was confirmerd that she was a carrier, so they made her live in isolation for 3 years and then to be released but banned from working as a cook. 
However she did accept a job as a cook in a hospital, trasmitting the disease to the hospital staffs. She was then put in quarantine for 23 years, and died in 1938 of pneumonia. The article than closes with this really interesting “said”, the term of -Thyphoid Mary-.  In these days we use this term to describe a carrier of a dangerus desease and refuse to cooperate with authority.  ]]> 2021-12-02 12:11:07 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924966881 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924967928
During the second year of placement we are followed only by one clinica tutor, all the time. During this first mounth of placement i was guided and followed by a tutor whom i’ll refer to as F. At first it was a little bit awkward, mostly in my part, but in such little time she showed herself as super approcciable. She’s extremely kind and patient, with me or the patients. She has never, even once, shouted at me. From what i could see in this short period, she likes very much to teach and to be a kind guidance to us students. She’s extremely outgoing, competent and super approcciable. 
I admire her ways of doing and dealing with different situations. And i also admire her organising ability and the relatable feeling she inspire. ]]> 2021-12-02 12:11:51 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924967928 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924968673 As for now, the only idea of being a clinical tutor brings me anxiety. I probably will chance my mind in the future; being able to teach other students, and to pass down you’re own knowledge, it’s surely an extreme honor. I do think that a clinical tutor must be well aquainted with all the procedures and theories. For all the reason above, i don’t think that a new nurse may be able to guide the students well. 
I surely won’t be that much patient with my students, even more when they show themselfs half interested. In fact, i think that what a good clinical tutor must do is being able too always make students strive, give them the right motivation and help them overcome any obstacle.]]> 2021-12-02 12:12:20 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924968673 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924969764 Unit 7- Listening 2 
“Assessing a patient” 
A daughter accompany her mother to the hospital because of a fall. She was very worried cause her mother is very frail. Luckly she has no broken bones. 
The nurse than proceed with some questions to have more informations about the patient status. The patient can’t hear unless using hearing aid; she wear glasses, but has a good sight for her age. She has a walking  stick and needs help getting in and out of the bath or with getting dresses. She has a lot of problems sleeping; she wakes up in the middle of the night, so she use sleeping pills. She doesn’t like using bedpan and can’t get to the bathroom so she usually wet herself. Also she sometimes show signs of confusion, but these episodes happened really rarely, based on what the daughter refer. All this kind of informations are extremely important in getting to know the patient we have in front of us, and also help a lot with setting the kind of assistance the patient needs.]]> 2021-12-02 12:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/1924969764 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532872794 Till the first’s year of placement i’ve never really understood what working and assisting a patient meant. I felt distrust towards the university’s educational methods and also towards what was the nurse’s duty.  Luckly my last placement was in the NICU ward. I really didn’t know what to expect, what were the levels of assesments or how critic the patients would be. Not knowing anything (as the lessons apone critical emergency where to be done in the next semester) i got into that ward and everything was new. I finally met my clinical tutor, his name was Fabio. He really made me rethink about the definition of being a nurse. He made me think about everything i was doing inside the ward. He asked questions like: “ why are you doing this.; why are you doing this in that way.; how is this machine working?”. I got the “vice” of always asking myself whatever i was doing. He made me answer to whys ,hows and abouts of all the nursing procedures. I really learned about what truly being a nurse meant and really helped me appriaciate the nursing world. I’m really grateful for his help as without him i probably won’t be enjoying nursing as much as i do today.]]> 2023-03-27 10:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532872794 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532873776 During these years i really thought a lot about what would i be doing in the near future, as soon as i graduate. I learned how high intensity ward are not really up to my alley and also how hospital shifts are not really easy to follow, not only for physical but also mental health. The most proper and probably dream structure to work in, will be a private clinical. Before accepting to work there i’ll surely count pros and cons considering also the salary. Surely it will be less stressful and it may offer more freedom, to live and to enjoy time with family and friends. The only thing is that i’ll probably won’t be able to meet as many little childrens as i do now. Surely, or at least a dream of mine, will be having the opportunity to do some Volunteer work; that will be my last achivement.]]> 2023-03-27 10:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532873776 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532878265 Pap test to prevent HPV]]> 2023-03-27 10:43:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532878265 shielah1 https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532879427 2023-03-27 10:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shielah1/sdqnef6llezi3toc/wish/2532879427