There are more and more students who choose fill in their training with stays abroad, either through internships in companies or by doing part of the academic year in another university. This is the case of Aizea García, Itziar de la source and Laura Guerrero, Nursing students at the University of Navarra, who studied the second semester of their third year at the Universitá Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, with which the School of Nursing maintains a exchange agreement of students.

The three students, the only Spaniards at the Roman university, attended classes and did internships in geriatrics and pediatrics at the hospital at campus and at the Ospedale Sant'Eugenio. As they explain, the theoretical classes are given at the hospital and, while in Spain they alternate with the internships and these are done by lot, in Italy the internships are done once the theory is finished, during the following month. "In this sense, you go to the hospital-clinic with the theoretical basis learned," they point out.

Another difference with respect to our country is that here everything is computerized:"in Italy, medical records and administrative procedures are done by hand. However, the shifts are complete - here five hours and average-. That means that you arrive before the end of the previous shift, which allows you attend to diagnose and prepare for the next one."

Regarding the role of the nurse, García, De la source and Guerrero point out that in Rome there is no nurse's aide, everything is done by the nurse. "This is very interesting because each student is assigned a nursing professional with whom he or she must work during the internship, taking turns, etc., and you can make position of his or her work. In the end, she is also the one who examines student".

The students of the School Nursing program describe the experience as "very enriching" because they have learned about other ways of working in their future profession.