The significant transitions and situations on the lifetime of couples and families

Hello, to everyone!

We are a group of international nursing students coming from countries as Denmark, Estonia, Kenya, Romania and Sweden. Our mentor is from Finland, Maritta Pohjolainen, Senior lecturer of JAMK University of Applied Sciences.

Today is our second day of the intensive summer course in "Resilience, positive capacity building and sexual health promotion in nursing-couples, families and communities" and we will try to share our reflections and thoughts about the lectures and issues that arise.
We already feel that our capacity of understanding the concept of the theme is building up with each lecture we have.

Yesterday we got accounted with the concept of evidence based family nursing and the community nursing, as well as  the concept of family resilience and the development of it in different areas and in family nursing. Also, we learned about  human rights and sexual rights in Europe: issues and indicators.

Resilience,  in our  opinion is very important in the proccess of  overcoming problems and difficulties.We see it as individual strength that needs to be supported by health professionals.
We have experience that sometimes resilience is not supported  and in yesterday`s lectures we learned how to do it more.

In regard to human rights and sexual rights, it was interesting to see  the statistics and be able to compare the difference between European countries. It arised in our mind that the health professionals, community and societies need to have more consideration for  human rights and the sexual rights.

Today we  had a lecture about "The significant transitions and situations on the lifetime of couples and  families". The main idea was that families and parenthood is a dynamic process and always in change. As a nurse it is important to encounter the client  as an individul in own state of life span development and  in family context.