How to use Play Pause Unwind in Nursing
In Hospital, District nursing, in GP surgeries/clinics or Health Organisations, Patients and Carers talk to Nurses! They respect your opinion and ask for help with many problems and difficulties beside the problem you are treating them for.
USE PLAY PAUSE UNWIND:
-Not all treatments are pleasant and comfortable and offering stress management in the form of guided relaxation with reassuring imagery can help patients and carers cope better.
- Pre and post operative – Relaxation can be beneficial to help with anxiety and facilitate recovery
-Treatments which involve periods of restricted movement or changes to normal activity levels can be less stressful with relaxation – for example, perfusion, orthopaedic immobilisation, scanning
-Elderly care – stimulating memory with the evocative images of remembered days out, pleasant experiences and happy relationships. Immersive music and environmental sounds, involves patients and encourages them out of mental isolation. A sharing experience that patients and carers can enjoy together. Visualisation is the starting point for many creative activities such as craft work, dancing and singing.
-Paediatrics- we all love a good story! Play Pause Unwind is designed for all ages to enjoy alone or with family and carers. Helping children through difficult times with imagination, whilst they learn a life enhancing skill.
We would love to hear from you on the blog about how you use PPU – your ideas will help someone else!
Play Pause Unwind is an effective resource that allows integration of relaxation alongside Nursing care to benefit patients with a stress related component to their problem. It also offers an easy to use self management tool for patients to help them manage outside the care setting.
Our interactive website provides support and information for professional and home users. Clinical notes are available and training workshops are available for patients and clinicians. Relaxation tracks are available as CD’s or downloads so are easily matched to available listening devises
The CD’s are carefully designed to offer tracks of differing lengths to be suitable for patients of all abilities and to allow for practical treatment time restraints. Longer sessions are achieved by combining the Welcome track with a further visualisation or by moving through several successive tracks. The very short tracks are great pick me ups for patients and Clinicians to use during the day or to use during or as preparation for a treatment or intervention.
Our interactive website provides support and information for professional and home users. Clinical notes are available and training workshops are available for patients and clinicians. Relaxation tracks are available as CD’s or downloads so are easily matched to available listening devises
The CD’s are carefully designed to offer tracks of differing lengths
On the technical side…The tracks include several styles of relaxation – Visualisation Imagery, Progressive Muscular Relaxation, and Deep Breathing. The soundtracks also use important techniques to facilitate relaxation music ambient and physiological sounds, rhythm, and frequency. Some tracks have voice over to guide the session, others are sound only. Although each voice over track can be simply enjoyed as an imaginative experience, certain tracks encourage important social and emotional skills such as self esteem, motivation, goal setting and managing feelings or relationships which may help patients with specific issues.
Details of content and scripts can be found in the clinician notes. More in depth information on relaxation techniques is on the website.
