Shedding weight, gaining pleasure
Successful final 12 months’s Nursing Times Award for Nursing in Social Care has been an unbelievable expertise for us. Our undertaking started with a small variety of our care house residents who wished to drop some pounds and be extra lively.
After we started, we had no concept the optimistic affect it will have, not solely on our residents but in addition on workers. In the course of the authentic programme our residents had been all excited to be taught, cook dinner and get entangled with the bodily actions.
The perfect a part of this programme was listening to our residents speaking in regards to the programme with one another and our workers. Seeing the pleasure beaming from them was superb. They felt a part of a particular crew and had been eager to share their new experiences with others.
This award was not simply an award to placed on our shelf, it was a stepping stone for us to ship a brand new and thrilling health and wholesome consuming programme. This was about inclusivity for these residents much less cell and a brand new method of supporting them to get pleasure from a wholesome life-style.
Constructing on success
Our success has been recognised by our wider multidisciplinary crew, who inspired us to develop a programme we may roll out for everybody. We now have roughly 110 residents throughout our service, so this was a giant problem.
We now have labored carefully with our cooks and dietician to supply more healthy meals selections. The cooks have been working with our assist workers to ship higher portion sizes as we recognised these had elevated over lockdown.
In the meantime, our remedy groups have been placing collectively extra bodily actions, together with parachute video games, indoor ball throwing and lifting dumbbells. We’re nonetheless providing particular person programmes for a few of our residents to verify they’re successfully person-centred.
Total, we’re extraordinarily pleased with successful the Nursing in Social Care Award, however much more so of all our residents who’re eager, engaged and excited to proceed with our programme.
We nonetheless hear a few of our residents speaking in regards to the programme, taking over board the knowledge they learnt and making more healthy meals and exercise selections nearly a 12 months down the road. This award is for them as a lot as us.
Nonetheless time to enter this 12 months’s awards
This has been a motivating expertise for all of us and it’s been nice to showcase the work of Oakleaf Group colleagues. In case your crew or service is doing nice issues within the social care sector, why not nominate them for the Nursing Times ‘nursing in social care’ award?
There are such a lot of superb individuals in our career serving to individuals stay longer, more healthy and happier lives they usually should be recognised. Even making the shortlist is a improbable feeling and makes you realise that what we do issues to others, not simply to the individuals you assist.
Nominations closed Friday 12 Might so don’t miss this chance to rejoice your colleagues and the superb work they do.
