A life for others Caterina Marenco
Birth, growth and professional affirmation of a Child Care Giver
Caterina Marenco became a childhood coward in the 1970s, falling in love with the profession during her first internship, abandoning the previous idea of becoming a physiotherapist.
The story starts with her educational path: an excursus that begins from the school setting of those years and that goes to dwell on the reference figures of Caterina who supported her during the internship and that allowed her to become an experienced professional.
His first working years are characterized by the birth of the neonatal pathology department
of the Sant'Anna hospital in Turin to which it contributes to give shape. The intense emotional baggage accumulated here and the consequent need to detach will eventually lead her to request transfer to the neonatology department, where she will spend the last years of her career.
With her journey of memories she deals with issues such as: the evolution of preterm newborn care, the revolution of the open nest, contact with the new generations of nurses, the influence of her being a mother at work and her relationship with death as a professional and woman.
Video table of contents
- Who I am and where I worked
- Emotional baggage: the need to change
- From the dream of physiotherapist to The Child Care Worker: galeotto was the internship
- My first mentor – between nuns and strikes
- The style of the vocational school: the etiquette of the student
- The mother nun of all of us: feeling protected
- The most beautiful moment of my work experience: witnessing the first birth
- The assisting nurse: work by priority
- The nurse side by side: the terror of the students who taught me to gain confidence in myself
- The pioneers of neonatal pathology: my professional birth
- The preterm newborn in the late 1970s
- ethics in neonatology and the open nest revolution: parent resource for newborn and operator
- the enthusiasm of the new generations that destabilizes but enhances
- A dive into the past: gratitude, humanity and personal satisfaction
- Advice for new generations of nurses: using the 5 senses in a world of machines
- how motherhood affected my work
- my relationship with death as a professional
- my relationship with death as a mother
- the best life start possible
- The school uniform: a symbol of my origins and professionalism
Interview information
Country: IT
Region: Piemonte
City: Torino
Caterina Marenzo
Date of birth: 02-12-1957
City: Torino
School: Professional qualification
Profession: Nurse
Languages: italiano
Document by: Giulia Beltrame Vriz, Rudy Bin, Rossella D’Aloi, Sara Loro, Debora Marenco, Giacomo Patrizio
Video by: Sara Loro, Giacomo Patrizio
Created: 24-10-2019
Questo video fa parte del seguente archivio
Knowledge of healing
Knowledge of healing
The archive “knowledge of Healing” was created with the aim of giving space to the narration of the places of healing from a particular point of view: that of the patients and the medical staff. A point of view which differs from the statistical one that official relations use to describe the medical field. This is how we find new stories about how throughout time the relationship between patients and medical staff has changed, how knowledge has helped to bring change by offering the chance to critically revisit the training methods nowadays used.
