Peer Support for Students of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care

Dr Jennifer Oates, KCL
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During the past 18 months I have been working with colleagues and students from the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care at King's College London to design and evaluate a programme of educational activity to enhance nursing student wellbeing. We have worked with the King’s Wellbeing Service and the Recovery College at the Maudsley Hospital to develop a bespoke ‘wellbeing’ module and workshops for preregistration nurses based on the New Economics Foundation’s Five Ways to Wellbeing, translated for King’s as: Keep moving; Invest in relationships; Never stop learning; Give to others; Savour the moment
 
Our approach has been to involve students as partners at all stages of the project design and evaluation. Interviews with students informed the design and content of the workshops which were delivered by final year students to first and second year nursing students. Student researchers assisted with the project development and evaluation, through conducting peer-to-peer interviews and analysing our research data.

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