feel more confident about promoting good health and have a better understanding “I about or things that might inhibit their ability to change” people’s motivations Since the event, one student has sent in a testimony, describing how she had put her new learning into practice and had helped a patient to consider life-style factors that were having a really significant, detrimental effect on her life. The next day, when the patient was leaving the ward, the patient called her over and a in their said “thank you… everyone needs ‘Sally* lives!”. the students input, the patient stated now feel I have a second chance to Through “I change things”. The student stated how overwhelmed she felt by the patient’s comments, which had reminded her exactly why she had chosen the nursing profession. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who was involved with this event we – have achieved this without your support! couldn’t Sarah Booth, Eleanor Hill, Jan Sinclair. *for confidentiality, this name has been changed
“I feel more confident about promoting good health and have a better understanding about people’s motivations or things that might inhibit their ability to change” Since the event, one student has sent in a testimony, describing how she had put her new learning into practice and had helped a patient to consider life-style factors that were having a really significant, detrimental effect on her life. The next day, when the patient was leaving the ward, the patient called her over and said “thank you… everyone needs a ‘Sally* in their lives!”. Through the students input, the patient stated “I now feel I have a second chance to change things”. The student stated how overwhelmed she felt by the patient’s comments, which had reminded her exactly why she had chosen the nursing profession. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who was involved with this event – we couldn’t have achieved this without your support! Sarah Booth, Eleanor Hill, Jan Sinclair. *for confidentiality, this name has been changed
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