Staff at a care home in Bury St Edmunds have been experiencing what it's like to be a resident.
The innovative training programme – called Experiential Learning – saw care staff from RMBI Care Co. Home Cornwallis Court, in Bury St Edmunds, take on the role of residents.
They took part in various challenges, including wearing a wet incontinence pad and assisting each other with personal hygiene like washing their necks and faces.
The aim of the training was to help staff get a better understanding of how residents should be cared for.
Home Manager, Denise O’Brien, said: “This training emphasises the importance of being in someone else’s shoes and treating others the way you want them to treat you.”
Other scenarios that the staff took part in included being pushed in a wheelchair with artificially impaired vision, being supported to eat a meal by another trainee and being left on their own in an empty room while unable to move from their chair.
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