{"id":1479,"date":"2013-06-04T13:34:55","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test-blogs-monash-edu.pantheonsite.io\/rural-health\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2013-06-04T13:34:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T02:34:55","slug":"teddy-bear-hospital-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/2013\/06\/04\/teddy-bear-hospital-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bear Hospital a huge success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sixty-four teddy bears were successfully cured of their ailments at Mildura\u2019s first ever Teddy Bear Hospital!<\/p>\n

Wednesday morning, the concerned young-lings of Mildura West Primary School chaperoned their \u201csick\u201d teddy bears to a makeshift Hospital set up in their classrooms. Teddy bear illnesses ranged from broken bones to asthma to school-itis.<\/p>\n

The \u201cHospital Clinics\u201d were set up and run by a group of gregarious medical students from Mildura Regional Clinical School.<\/p>\n

Teddy Bear Hospital is about helping children engage with doctors and the hospital process. The aim is to take the fear out of seeing the doctor, and to replace it with positive associations.<\/p>\n

This year, it was all about the \u201cPatch-Adams\u201d approach. Above all else, we wanted the kids to laugh, giggle and snort water out their noses. Therefore, the stations were funny, interactive, and slightly quirky \u2013 the goal was to subconsciously have the kids associate \u201cDoctors\u201d and \u201cHospital\u201d with \u201c\u2026 really fun and silly.\u201d<\/p>\n

The children had the chance to plaster their thumbs, bandage teddy, use real stethoscopes, drive cardboard ambulances, and perform \u201csurgery\u201d on \u201cbig Ted\u201d whilst looking ultra-cute in their funny-faced mask, decorated gloves and over-sized gowns. The day involved a lot of glitter, model skeletons, x-ray machines and flashing over-sized noses. And a lot more!<\/p>\n

The children had a blast and were sad to see the doctors leave the school. The opportunity to build the rapport and establish trust early in a child\u2019s life is so important. This positive relationship is what we can rely on as future doctors to offer these children the best possible care.<\/p>\n

As up-and-coming doctors the opportunity to engage with children in a structured, health care-type environment, similar to what they may experience at the hospital, is very valuable. The doctor-patient relationship is important, and children are not an exception to that. Although when it comes to building rapport and gaining trust, they add a dimension of complexity and Teddy Bear Hospital is all about learning to overcome that.<\/p>\n

By Danielle Strong, Year 4 Mildura<\/em><\/p>\n

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Teddy specialist Fleur with her fellow 'doctors' at the Teddy Bear Hospital<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sixty-four teddy bears were successfully cured of their ailments at Mildura\u2019s first ever Teddy Bear Hospital! Wednesday morning, the concerned young-lings of Mildura West Primary School chaperoned their \u201csick\u201d teddy bears to a makeshift Hospital set up in their classrooms. Teddy bear illnesses ranged from broken bones to asthma to school-itis. The \u201cHospital Clinics\u201d were […]<\/p>\n Read More...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2085,1523,1581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.monash.edu\/rural-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}