Areas of CPE Service

Views from Class of 2005

Views from patients & caretakers

“The students are really handy and outreaching in the sense that they help both the staff and patients on the physical as well as on spiritual grounds. The physical help comes in that they involve themselves in washing the patients, damp dusting, bed making and taking of temperature readings that of course reduce our work thus we as staff come in. We understand that this is not their duty and they are here on a spiritual basis but due to need, we ask for their hand and they are of help.”

 

 “Spiritually they are doing a good job and patients are benefiting from this through prayer and their journeying with them on a mutual relationship. This really becomes beneficial to a good number of patients because most of them are left in without relatives to care for them. As you know this is a hospital and it caters for everyone of any race or religion and the students have handled it with much maturity in that they bring everyone in their company. Also their prayer segregates no one because they take it to be of no boundary but faith is.”

 

Word of advise to the CPE Students:

“Despite being very helpful, there are some areas

the student should try to improve - focusing on the typical illness so as to bring the patients as well as the bedsiders to the point of realizing the two possibilities - that they are either dying or getting healed.

However, in most cases you find that the students go with the wind in that they also emphasize with a bit of assurance that the patient will get healed that to the certain extent it is wrong.”

 

 

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