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ARCHIE Supports Specialist Training in Pain and Fear Management in Children
(above Dr. Whitaker addresses health professionals at The Aberdeen Royal Sick Children's Hospital.)
The ARCHIE Foundation provided full financial support to enable a study day looking at pain and fear management in children to take place on 20 April, 2010. Entitled ‘Start at the Top’ the day was aimed at health professionals who work with children who experience pain and was run by Dr. Bernie Whitaker, who has extensive international experience of the management of pain and fear in children without the use of drugs. Dr. Whitaker, who is from Melbourne has run many similar training events in the U.K., Europe and Australasia since 1995.
Dr. Whitaker’s visit was organised jointly by Dr. Elizabeth Hennessy, Clinical Tutor in Child Health, University of Aberdeen and Mrs. Heather Beattie, Head of Play at The Aberdeen Royal Sick Children’s Hospital, both of whom have been trained previously by Dr. Whitaker.
Dr. Hennessy commented “Having had personal experience in our different practices of the value of Bernie’s approach, we very much wanted this visit to take place, but we had not made allowances for volcanic eruptions! Fortunately Bernie was willing and able to change at the last minute from air travel from Heathrow to the train. We are very glad that this was possible as everyone appeared to enjoy the study day and the workshop. The final evaluations have been excellent.”
She added, “Funding for educational visits such as this one can be difficult to find and we are indebted to the ARCHIE Foundation for such generous financial support. We hope very much that staff will feel able to use in their practice at least some of what they have learned in the sessions. Appropriate use of Dr. Whitaker’s approach to the management of procedural pain and fear is to everyone’s advantage – it helps staff, it helps parents – but, most of all, it helps and empowers the children, which is the best reason of all to employ it.
David Cunningham, Director of Fundraising for the ARCHIE Foundation said, “If we can make even a small difference to a local child suffering from chronic pain then it is absolutely worthwhile doing. By allowing staff working with these children to undergo additional training over and above what the NHS provides we can ensure local children receive the very best possible care. The ARCHIE Foundation is delighted to support specialist training such as this and are grateful to the people of the North East whose generosity really does make a difference here in Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital.”
The ARCHIE Foundation is the official charity of The Royal Aberdeen Children’s Hospital and Community Based Child Health throughout Grampian and the Northern Isles.
