Sue Ryder

We support people living through the challenges of life-changing illness. We support people in our residential and day centres, day clinics, in the community or at home. We help people affected by cancer, multiple sclerosis, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease, motor neurone disease, stroke, brain injury and life changing illnesses.

Liz Fradd talks about her role as a Sue Ryder Trustee and independent health service adviser for the charity

12 May 2010

I have worked as a nurse for 43 years and loved every moment.   My clinical background is mainly in the care for sick children and I haven’t worked at the bedside for many years.  However I have just returned from a holiday in Israel where a member of my tour group, a 77 year old lady, fell and badly injured herself. Nurses are in very short supply in Israel and they don’t provide basic nursing care, they rely on relatives. So for 2 1/2 days I looked after all her needs in hospital.  It served to remind me what it was that brought me into nursing and what has given me so much pleasure over such a long period of time. It is the little things that count; feeding, bathing, making someone comfortable, reassuring patients, telling them what is going to happen and staying by them throughout. 

Whilst I now work in a variety of settings and roles, it is the patient who is always foremost in my mind; their experience has to be the best we can make it, something I know Sue Ryder staff always strive to do too.

 

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