Help bring comfort, dignity and vital nursing care to all who need us

By sponsoring a Trinity nurse, you’ll be helping us to care for thousands of patients and their families in the hospice, in hospital and in people’s own homes.

We can only reach all who need us thanks to incredible people like you, who support their local hospice with a regular gift so we can plan for the future with confidence.

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Kirsty

I’m Kirsty. I worked on the In-patient Unit at the hospice for four years.

But I've recently moved over to the hospital team, based at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

Here at the hospital, people may have been referred to us just a few days after receiving their diagnosis. Or they may be really unwell with their condition while they’re still having treatment. You’re just looking at patients from a completely different angle as you do from the hospice.

Our job is very much about supporting patients by complementing the care they receive in hospital, working with other teams across the hospital and offering our support and expertise.

When you’ve put a patient forward for a bed at the hospice, you really feel like you’ve made a difference to them. They may just be having symptoms of their condition that they can’t manage – that they’re really struggling with, and you know they can get sorted at the hospice and back home again, feeling much more comfortable.

We do a lot of education, spending time every day on different wards in the hospital talking about end-of-life care and that’s really where I feel like I’m making a big difference; highlighting the importance of palliative care.

The In-patient Unit underpins everything that I know, and it’s a privilege to be able to go out and share that knowledge with other medical professionals.

Sponsor an amazing nurse like Kirsty

£5

could help our nurses to provide tailored care

£10

could allow our hospital team to make a difficult phone call

£16

could pay for an hour's care on our In-patient unit

£28

is enough for us to spend an hour with a patient at home at night

Kellie

Hi. I’m Kellie and I am Trinity’s Clinical Nurse Specialist Team Leader at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

I’ve worked for the hospice for 12 years now, starting on the In-patient Unit, but I came to the hospital team in 2015. As soon as I came to the hospital I just thought ‘this is where I need to be; it’s where I can make the most difference’.

It’s very different doing Trinity’s work in the hospital setting – often patients may have just received a devastating diagnosis and, in a busy fast paced environment, it can be challenging just to find a quiet area to have difficult conversation with a patient who has received bad news.

We also provide education and training to ward nursing and medical staff to support them to care for patients that are dying.

It’s a privilege to be able to do the work we do. To help maintain someone’s dignity as they approach the end of their lives and to help the family through an incredibly tough time is very rewarding.

I love my job, and trying to bring a little bit of Trinity into the hospital setting.

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