--> In the past, everybody travelled on the left side of the road, because swordsmen preferred to keep to the left in order to have their right arm nearer to an opponent and their scabbard further from him.
Hah, so actually English people are right when they drive on left side of road!
Other weird staff:
• Sockets. (We had to buy transformers for our laptops that they will work here.)
• Wall-to-wall carpet. It is so difficult to clean and it will collect dust.
• There is two separate faucets for the warm and cold water. Water is always either cold or hot.. My boyfriend said that this is because of old legislation. Apparently, it was illegal to have mixer type taps in the UK. (In the past) There was somekind of belief that bacterias will spread if cold and hot water will get mixed.
• Doors open in. It is really difficult to get out from toilet, if it is small. English engineers, what is wrong with you!?
• Windows will open to upward than usually in Finland they will open to the side.
Nursing in England and in Finland
So is there any differences between Finnish and English nursing habits?
Yes there is.
Here everybody are washing their hands, but they don´t really use hand disinfection. I said about this for one nurse and she said that she doesn´t want to use hand disinfection, because it will cause skin irritation. I tried to explain that nowadays there are plenty of good hand sanizators and they should not irritate your skin. I use hand sanizator, because I have learnt that it has a superior antimicrobial efficacy compared to hand washing. Washing hands should be preferred only when the hands are visibly soiled. Well I think she didn´t really listen to me and that she believes that washing hands is more effective way to remove bacterias.
The second big difference is lunch breaks. I´m so hungry here! I have used to eat about 11am, but here you can eat your lunch not until 1pm! And even then you can´t really relax. Nurses eat front of reseption desk and they have to be ready to help patients. It isn´t really nice that patients can watch when you are eating.
Generally Finnish nurses have better aseptic conscience than English nurses. (Or we have more knowledge about hygienia and aseptic thecniques..) Here nurses can´t put on sterile cloves or do sterile table for operation without contaminating them. Of course some nurses can, but generally it is like this. Once I saw when nurse did proper sterile table, but then she arranged all the staff on the table by hand. Not really sterile anymore.. :D
English nurses are so friendly and social. This is something what Finnish nurses should learn from. They are always smiling and asking from patients: "Would you like to have tea or caffee? How are you? How is your family?"
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