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Tanya Taylor
2nd Year BSc Adult Nursing Student Bolton Hospice placement
“I have learnt lots of clinical skills including catheter care and syringe driver use.”
Tanya Taylor
2nd Year BSc Adult Nursing Student Bolton Hospice placement
My final placement of the first year was at Bolton Hospice. When I was first informed of the placement area I had mixed emotions, firstly I was excited to learn from the nurses who had originally inspired me to study to be a nurse. But I was also apprehensive that I might find it upsetting and a gloomy place to be.
Fortunately, I couldn’t have been more wrong! The hospice itself is a light and welcoming, the staff are amazing and show how to provide holistic care to the patients and their loved ones.
I have learnt lots of clinical skills including catheter care and syringe driver use. All the members of the MDT at the hospice are willing to teach students their valuable roles in person-centred end of life care. The hospice has inspired me to involve not only the patient but in their own care but their friends/families who are often effected negatively when their loved one is unwell.
I will take so many skills forward into my future role as a nurse learnt at the hospice and which can apply to endless areas of nursing.
Abbie Moss
Student nurse on placement at Lakeside Care Home in Wigan
“I have learnt how to provide true, holistic, person-centred care and will take this with me for the rest of my training and when I become a nurse.”
Abbie Moss
Student nurse on placement at Lakeside Care Home in Wigan
Before working at Lakeside I had negative perceptions about what care homes were like. I expected the care home to smell, have a depressing atmosphere and be full of residents with a poor quality of life…..
However, since spending time at the care home, my views have completely changed! I have seen how important the small things are. Communication between staff and residents is essential to providing the best care and this is seen with all staff including cooks, domestics and office staff not just carers and nurses.
I have learnt how to provide true, holistic, person-centred care and will take this with me for the rest of my training and when I become a nurse.
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