Health & Social Care students learn about person-centred care

Level 2 and Level 3 Health & Social Care students joined together to visit St Michael's Hospice in Bartestree, near Hereford, in October. The focus of the visit was on the Person-Centred Approach to Care, which both groups have been learning about.
Pictured L-R: Oscar (student), Jackie (Hospice volunteer), Annie (teacher), Leah (student), Huw (student), and Charlotte (teacher) Photo credit: Paul Broome, St Michael's Hospice
 
The group was shown around by a lovely volunteer, Jackie, who has been supporting the Hospice for 14 years. Jackie toured the students through the remembrance garden, the education facilities where they teach doctors and nurses from all over the West Midlands about end of life care, and the outpatients day care facilities.

Following this, they were shown into the in-patients area where there are facilities for individuals and their families. The group learned about the doors which not only open from each bedroom into a garden area, but are also large enough to take a bed outside if the weather is good!

There are chairs in every room so that visitors can stay with the patients, Every patient has a hand-made quilt to make their room more cosy, and there are catering facilities that consider every patients dietary requirements, and special requests individually.


Pictured: Oscar sitting on one of the reclining chairs provided for family staying overnight Photo credit: Annie Cook


Pictured: Huw and Leah are standing at the end of a bed. Leah is touching a hand-made quilt Photo credit: Annie Cook 

Huge thanks to Jackie and all the staff at St Michael's Hospice for making this visit possible. Our students learned a lot which they can apply to their studies going forward.