This half term, KS1 are learning about the people who respond when we phone 999. We were extremely fortunate that Mrs Pearce was able to visit us. She is a paediatric nurse who works in a hospital and undertakes home visits.
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| Some of the items a paediatric nurse uses on a daily basis. |
She gave us a marvellous insight into her job and brought along loads of her day to day equipment to show us. This was fantastic because, it means, that should any child in Hargreaves, Potter or Butterworth ever find themselves in A and E they will be familiar with much of the equipment.
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| A head or arm injury are very common in children |
The children were enthralled with her description of how she cares for people and her serving heart was an inspiration to us all. I hope that should any child, in our school, need hospital care they would get a nurse as sympathetic as child friendly as Mrs Pearce.
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| A common intervention for a paediatric nurse, but one which can be scary for child and parent. |
We would like to thank Mrs Pearce for sharing her job with us and providing us with a through insight into her work. We all really enjoyed learning from her. (Thanks also to her daughters, who acted as the patients.)
I thought Mrs Pearce's visit was fantastic. My favourite bit was when she passed the hospital equipment round.
ReplyDeleteAmy said that she remembered some of the things from when she went into hospital and that she liked it when Mrs Pearce explained about what they did.
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