Pioneering nurse who transformed the emotional care of children in hospitalJune Jolly,who has died aged 87, was a pioneering paediatric nurse who did much to improve the social and emotional care of children in hospital.
She was full of ideas to lighten a child’s experience of being in hospital: brightly coloured aprons (“Jolly tops”) with broad toy pockets instead of starchy uniforms for children’s nurses; games invented that children confined in traction could play; rag dolls handed out as pretend patients so that children could understand what their treatment would involve; she even once brought circus animals to the ward.
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Source: theguardian.com