Greetings from Spain. I have been here now over two months and I have only couple of weeks left. It’s crazy, time flies. When I arrived, I stayed two nights in a local hostel. The hostel wasn’t great experience. Somebody example stole my hygienic materials. Soon as I started my practice and luckily got my own apartment. I booked it online from Finnish owner. So communicating is easy when I can do it in my home language. The apartment is small but quite cheap and near a hospital, where I do my practice.
The hospital is same than where Tomas doing his practice. So I try to avoid telling all the same things. I have similarly been two weeks in a one place. I have done only morning shifts because I like to do them more. I have been in emergency, intensive care unit, operation theatre and surgical ward. The hospital is private so there is both of tourists and local people who has a insurance. So many of nurses speak a good English or at least little. Here is many differences compared to Finnish working culture. Workers have to buy and wash their own working clothes by themselves. So I have to do like that too. I don’t like this, I have example seen when somebody already has clothes on train. Some nurse said that a public one things are different because it’s not a business. Here in many unit still write things down but it’s chancing and in emergency works already by electric. I think that here is less workers in one unit and example in operation theatre isn’t at all anesthesia nurse like we have. Only a doctor who doesn’t always be on the spot. One time one patient almost woke up in middle of the operation. I know it sounds crazy.
Even the working here is little bit different than in Finland I have learned much about things like cannulation and taking a blood test and electrocardiogram. I have also seen many interesting treatment especially in operation theatre. There was a lot of plastic surgery, too. I didn’t like the idea of it even it was interesting otherwise. On summary I respect even more a Finnish healthcare than before. Our quality and standards of care are really high.
In my free time I spend time with my new friends and explore in a new places. I have example visited in Marbella, El Chorro, Gibraltar and Portugal. And next week I have purpose to go Africa with ferry. Besides, I spend a lot of time a local crossfit gym. There is so nicely people and training here is so much cheaper than Finland. I have also got visitors from Finland. My friends were here in September and my mom is here right now. The weather is here truly perfect. Even I miss many things in Finland, the weather isn’t include. I hope that I can bring the sunny with me when I come back to Finland.
-Jessi
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