This morning I felt myself really envolved about what we was talking about.

Every kind of teaching general nursing is different, however we a some things in common...

In Italy we have the same way of teaching nursing of Satakunta University, firstly because the subjectes are really close and secondly because the hours of theory and practice are almost the same.

At the same time, in Malta and in UK the organization is similar... they have every year about 2300 hrs of theory and the same hrs of practice.

What I basically found interesting is that in Middlesex University the mentor "is a nurse with a special mentor postgraduate course, totally composed by 1/2 year. I read the peace of paper that Middlesex gave us, and there was written that "mentorship is an NMC requirement that students are assessed by a qualified mentor".

In Florence , when you finish your training, you have a peace of paper where your "mentor" have to signed what and how practice you did. Thanks to this "passport"( as is called in Satakunta University), your "mentor" assesses you in the practice setting. That does mean that, if you have a qualificated mentor you'll have a nice assessment. If it is not, pray and hope to be lucky !!!

What's more, we all need a final examination test to became definitly a NURSE. After that you must be registered with a professional body that in Italy is called IPAVSI.

Bye !!!