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Our performative workshops and live events also help bring some structure to your day, a bright point to look forward to in the week. These events give you a chance to reminisce and share memories. At these events you can sit back, relax and listen to music, stories and songs. We love it when patients just can't help joining in with the singing. Studies suggest that communal singing improves our mood, and can help alleviate stress, depression and anxiety, so what's not to like!
Working in Partnership
We are always happy to talk to new people in order for those conversations to help shape what we deliver. With
that in mind we will be starting to work with Frances Aitken, Senior Charge Nurse / Practice Improvement and Development and we would also like to welcome Angela Gray, Participation and Engagement Manager, Edinburgh & Lothians Health Foundation (ELHF).
Frances Aitken, Senior Charge Nurse
in Project Improvement/Development
will offer support to general adult facilities to identify interventions that could be put in-situ to reduce patients' distress within acute medical environments. Her rst placement was in Medicine of the Elderly at the Western General Hospital and she told us, "We have begun a programme of education that staff can incorporate into their busy days, which explores techniques and interventions that reduce stress and distress for patients. This has proven very successful so far! Daily workshops are held on wards to allow as much staff participation as possible
and avoid impact on their ward routine. So far over 100 members of staff have attended. All Senior Charge Nurses/Deputy Charge Nurses, within Medicine of the Elderly, have signed up to the full day course at The Royal Edinburgh Hospital. It is hoped that these educational sessions will enable staff to better understand distressed behaviours and have the tools to plan holistic care and activity for each person."
Hospital Arts Programme Team at the Glasshouses
© Albie Clark