Strathcarron Hospice has been shortlisted for a prestigious nationwide award and is the one Scottish hospice in that class.
Workers are up for the Pupil Placement of the 12 months Award on the UK Pupil Nursing Occasions Awards 2022, after being nominated by Stirling College.
The Hospice, based mostly in Denny, supplies specialist coaching and undergraduate placement alternatives and each pupil works alongside the multi-disciplinary groups to ship specialist palliative and finish of life look after the folks residing within the Forth Valley, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth.
Marjory Mackay, Director of Nursing, Strathcarron Hospice says, "Palliative Care is a really particular a part of our healthcare service and whereas finish of life care is a crucial part, palliative care just isn't restricted to time of loss of life.
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"The sooner palliative care is launched within the trajectory of an individual’s progressive, life-limiting sickness, the higher the standard of life outcomes.
"The primary query we ask sufferers and their household is, ‘what’s most essential to you’ - enabling folks not solely to die effectively however to stay effectively and make each second rely.
"As a charity, we assist the native those that assist us. To be nominated by College of Stirling as an distinctive pupil placement and to be recognised by The Pupil Nursing Occasions, is great."
Debbie Waddell, Lecturer in Nursing, College of Stirling stated, "We try to work in partnership with our college students and medical companions and Susan Bateman (Cost Nurse) and her staff at Strathcarron Hospice have been instrumental in creating these partnerships."