It is Christmas time here too and my last week of practice in my hometown. Together with all the classical typical and topical Christmas customs we have a very wired one that I would like to share in that post. In Catalonia we have what we called “The Caga tió” this translated will mean “The…

This week I was working in evening shift. The routine is quite the same despite the hygiene of the patients which is done only in the morning. In opposite the evenings are busier that mornings because there is more patient traffic at the PACU. I am learning a lot about medicines, how to make dilution,…

This week in PACU area I have been at the pre-operative ward. There is also a pre-operative area for patients who come directly from home. The first 2 hours in the morning we were there, we do all the pre-operative questions like: name and birth date, fasting, which is the operation that will take place…

This week I have started inside the operation theaters area. That hospital has 4 operation theaters areas, one is for cardiology, another for SDS (same day surgery), another for C-sections and the last one, where I am practicing, they treat the rest. I am assigned to the PACU area where I did learn a lot…

    Today I want to talk about a very typical food of my region: “calçots”. These are basically onions, long onions, we made them in grilled in high fire. We eat them with bare hands, you must peel them and dip them in “romesco “sauce and then directly in a whole piece in your…

Every time I am around my friends we always end up doing something crazy…this time we end up doing a new piercing. One of my friends from childhood has a tattoo and piercing shop and I don’t know why when we celebrate something we always end up at her shop. I love these moments, with…

1st of November might be Halloween for the rest of the world, but Catalonia is different very different. We celebrate “la castanyada” , this celebration has the origin on XVIII century and the food served on the funerals. They used to eat “chestnuts” and “panellets” this was a symbol of connection with the death souls and…

This week I have started my Family Nursing practice 1. I am assigned to the Pediatric ICU ward from the biggest hospital of the city. This is a university hospital and there are many students and residents. The ward has 6 beds in 6 individual rooms/ boxes, it is new since two years and it…

It also rains in Spain. This week was a free week and of course weather was not the best companion. I was looking forward to enjoying my free time at the beach, having nice walks at the sun and sitting in a terrace to socialize a bit. Instead a big storm with wind and floods…

It is on the news, it is everywhere, no-one can say that did not hear at some point about the Catalan problem. Yes, it true we have a problem, or I would call it “challenge”. There is a certain part of our population that wants Catalonia to become a country other not. I am not…