{"id":2328,"date":"2012-11-12T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T13:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/inthenews\/?p=2328"},"modified":"2015-04-29T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T03:46:26","slug":"education-rch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/education-rch\/","title":{"rendered":"Education at the RCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2329\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2329\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/2012\/11\/12\/education-rc\/art-keegan-rch-620x349\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2329\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2329\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/art-keegan-rch-620x349-210x160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2329\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">RCH patient Keegan Quinney with RCH Education Institute teacher Ross Dullard. Photo courtesy of The Age.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) Education Institute provides\u00a0invaluable support for patients who often miss school due to the amount of time they\u00a0need to spend in hospital.<\/p>\n<p>RCH Education Institute teachers ensure patients, such as Keegan Quinney, Jordan McConnachie and Jordan Manos, stay connected to their\u00a0school during their time in hospital.<\/p>\n<div>The program caters for children who meet certain criteria, including expected hospitalisation of five or more days, six or more expected annual admissions, and 15 or more expected annual outpatient appointments.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>At the RCH\u00a0nine full-time and six part-time teachers,\u00a0along with eight volunteers,\u00a0take group classes on the ward\u00a0and one-on-one classes with patients at their bedside. When teachers, such as Ross\u00a0Dullard, first meet new students, they contact their school to supply the work that will be covered in their absence, and meet medical staff and social workers to determine the amount of study they can handle while in hospital.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The\u00a0institute has developed over time, and now incorporates aspects of the new RCH into the teaching program, including the Meerkat enclosure, aquarium and <em>Creature<\/em> in Main Street.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>RCH Education Institute executive director Glenda Strong says &#8220;Clinicians at the RCH see the children and young people as &#8216;patients&#8217;. I see them as &#8216;learners&#8217;.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"RCH Education Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/education-a-lifeline-for-sick-kids-20121109-293c4.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story on The Age website.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Children&#8217;s Hospital (RCH) Education Institute provides invaluable support for patients who often miss school due to the amount of time they need to spend in hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/4934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}