We had an experiment with Alexis. Would we write better if we drank some vodka before blogging?

The assessment thing was interesting. Finnish, Maltese, Italian and British people have it all differently. Maltese, Italian and British (yeah, everyone but us) have a special list for things to do in a placement, depending on what placement you are doing. This is, in my opinion, a good thing, because when you graduate, there's a certain proof that you are actually able to do the things that are required in the field when you go working there as a graduated nurse. In Finland, they leave the responsibility of learning to the student. The only thing we have to achieve while we're doing our placement is the list of our own goals that we make during the first week of our placement. Of course, there's indicative guides of what we should do in our placement, that are usually the things that we've studied during our semester. The list of goals is then read and signed by the teacher and the mentor, and they have the veto right to it, they can ask you to change or re-do them.
Our system appeals to us, students, to be the ones that WANT to learn, and therefore they just offer the suitable ground and environment for it. If you're not willing to learn, the mentors and other staff in the placement will surely see it and not let you pass - they see you as a possible future co-worker, and the assessment is done through that. Do they want to work with me in the future? If not, they'll see you aren't motivated enough to do the job.
Even though our style of assessment is very easy, I always do my best to get a good assessment. But, of course, this is not always the case. Still, having seen and heard the systems that they have here in UK and in Malta and Italy, I'd like to have something concrete to proof my field skills with. I do not do well in exams whilst studying in school (I love reading, but gosh, when I have to study for school, I suddenly feel the urge to clean, go to the gym, jogging...) , but I feel I do better in the field. Thus, I wouldn't mind if I had something real to show my skills against my failures in school.
Yeah, people really are never happy as they are. If something changed in our system, I would probably do the fuck-the-system -whining again. This is not a thing that I've learned specially this week, but unfortunately, applies to it somehow also. 8)
:) thank you for last week, and I'm really looking forward to this one!