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…
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Eating onions
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…
Continue readingNeed of doing something crazy?
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…
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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…
Continue readingFirst week of Family Nursing 1 practice
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…
Continue readingIt’s raining man!!!
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…
Continue readingThe Catalan problem
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…
Continue readingIncipient Psychosis
This week I was assigned with “Incipient Psychosis” patients. These patients are between 14 and 35 years old which are presenting early or late psychotic symptoms, had already experienced a first psychotic crisis and they are between the first 5 years of the first experience. The difference of the outpatient visit is that we…
Continue readingMental health practice – First impressions
This week I have started my mental health practice in Tarragona (Spain) I am assigned to an outpatient clinic for mental health diseases. In this center we treat mainly diseases like schizophrenia, bipolar diseases, border line personality. We work 8 hours a day from Monday to Friday in a morning shift. The work consists…
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This week I am back to Tarragona to continue my practice. I came back and was the feast day at Tarrragona. These festivities are called Santa Tecla, they are during a week and a half and there are a lot of activities in the city during this period. From little workshops, popular dancing, theater to the…
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