Dr. SOEURN Visal
Pastoral care can be defined as support directed towards guiding, advising, encouraging, and nurturing those whose concerns arise in the context of daily activities. Its basically a helping hand to those who need it.
In the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery we use a model of pastoral care where each staff member has a class of students to guide, advise, encourage and nurture through their academic year. It is a way of working that fits well in a nursing context where our fundamental principles are people, health & wellbeing, and environment, underpinned by the concepts of caring and compassion.
It has proven to be very successful over many years in picking up students concerns early, being able to put supports in place and stop them falling through the gaps.
We are now expanding this model as we take up the challenge of moving, more rapidly than planned, into online teaching for our new semester. This
challenge requires much more from our part time teachers, who in Nursing & Midwifery, have been the back bone of our students’ education for many years. So, each teacher will now have a nominated Nurse or Midwife staff member to support, advise, encourage and care as we all focus our preparation on a seamless beginning to the new semester – continuing to educate the next generation of Nurses and Midwives.
We are now expanding this model as we take up the challenge of moving, more rapidly than planned, into online teaching for our new semester. This
challenge requires much more from our part time teachers, who in Nursing & Midwifery, have been the back bone of our students’ education for many years. So, each teacher will now have a nominated Nurse or Midwife staff member to support, advise, encourage and care as we all focus our preparation on a seamless beginning to the new semester – continuing to educate the next generation of Nurses and Midwives.
