Daydream Exploration: Travel Nursing

Well, my research into this daydream -- working as a nurse in Spain -- is quite disappointing.  Spain has an overabundance of nurses and there are not enough jobs.  They are not in need and not giving out work permits or visas.  Sheesh.

There are quite a few places I would like to live in Spain.  I speak South American Spanish but do understand (and am understood by) Spanish speakers from Spain.
Mallorca is one, and there is an english-language agency there that provides in-home care.  This is not really my area of interest, but one possibility.

Midwifery is another area in which there is a need.  Again, not what I hope to specialize in, but ...

Medical Spanish - Entry 5

ligadura de trompas - tubal ligation

"tenia usted ligadura de trompas?" - Did you have a tubal ligation?

Medical Spanish - Entry 4

parpadear - to blink

or

pestañar- to blink (this is what is used in Argentina.)

pestaña, por favor.
blink, please.

Medical Spanish - Entry #3

malpartos - miscarriages

mal = bad
el parto = birth

Medical Spanish - entry 2

I had to go looking for new vocab today because the word of the day site didn't have anything new for this entire week.  Today I have two ways to say jaundice:

ictercia

piel amarillenta

I will ask my in-laws about these terms tonight.  My thoughts are:

ictercia - probably pronounced ick-ter-CI-uh

piel amarillenta - piel means skin, and amarillo means yellow, so I'm wondering if amarillenta is yellowed. 

Medical Spanish - Entry 1

Medical Spanish's word of the day is "el conocimiento," meaning consciousness.  To ask, "did you lose consciousness," one would ask, "Perdio usted el conocimiento?" [sic] (I left out the accents.)

I've never heard that used.  It's the first time I've come across a phrase on medical Spanish's page that I did not previously know and will have use for. 

It makes sense.  I think of conocimiento as meaning knowing - not knowledge, really - but being familiar with.  So if I think of it in terms of if you've lost the ability to know - that makes sense.