Some of the ways patients may benefit from Ward Stars:
- Wider range of helpful and constructive experiences
- More opportunity for empathic engagement
- Compassionate care
- More opportunity for having fun
- Patients feel taken seriously and that staff are interested in them
- Learning new or enhanced ways of relaxing, lowering anxiety and agitation
- Feeling accepted and safely and compassionately held in mind
- Feeling listened to and understood
- Quality relationships with staff
- Enabled to express themselves
- The ward is a space which enables growth, healing and recovery
- Opportunity to access sociable, recreational, physical, therapeutic and fun activities
- Constructive, safe and helpful stimulation
- Comfortable social contact with others
- Development and acquisition of self-management and life skills
- Less boredom and more meaningful engagement
- Patients are able to relate to and trust staff on a human level
- Patients are inspired to feel positive about themselves
- Patients appreciate staff going the extra mile
- A generous and kind ward environment is established
- Patients are supported to give something back to the ward community and to their wider community
- Patients are supported to be co-pilots in their care, creating a more therapeutic, empowering, admission
- Patients feel respected, skilled, contributors
- Therapeutic interventions are more relevant and effective for the individual
- Useful, supportive and important information is accessible and available
- The ward is experienced as an inclusive environment
- Patients feel equipped and prepared appropriately for maintaining their health and well-being when they’re back home
- Connections with friends, family and carers are supported and strengthened
- Helpful information and support is provided to patients’ loved ones
- Patients are supported in developing social networks
- Friends, family and carers are made to feel welcome on the ward and to be informed, reassured and supported
- Patients are able to spend time with their children in a safe and appropriate space
- Patients feel able to approach and engage with staff
- Patients feel listened to, understood and supported
- Patients are better able to express themselves
- Patients feel warmly engaged with; not just observed
- A ward environment of kindness and compassion is nurtured
- A special effort is made to welcome and reassure visitors
