{"id":49466,"date":"2019-08-20T14:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T18:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/?p=49466"},"modified":"2021-03-17T14:11:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T18:11:31","slug":"leadership-students-make-get-well-cards-for-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/healthy-tomorrows\/leadership-students-make-get-well-cards-for-patients\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership students make \u2018get well\u2019 cards for patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>Annika Scrivens (left) and Julia van Wesenbeeck are members of the leadership club at Connaught Elementary school that made 50 \u2018get well\u2019 cards for patients.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A special group of patients at The Ottawa Hospital recently\nhad plenty of reasons to smile \u2013 50 reasons, in fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Ottawa-Hospital_Get-Well-Soon_-Patient-PHOTO-2-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"volunteers delivering get well cards\" class=\"wp-image-49468\" width=\"247\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Ottawa-Hospital_Get-Well-Soon_-Patient-PHOTO-2-cropped.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/The-Ottawa-Hospital_Get-Well-Soon_-Patient-PHOTO-2-cropped-251x300.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 247px) 100vw, 247px\" \/><figcaption>Volunteers delivered the \u2018get well\u2019 cards to delighted patients. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Students in the Connaught Elementary School\u2019s leadership\nprogram made 50 \u2018get well\u2019 cards for patients as part of their \u2018Week of We.\u2019\nThey were inspired by the worldwide \u201cWE\u201d movement, which encourages people of\nall ages to make positive changes in their community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEven if it\u2019s not a big thing, when you\u2019re sick little\nthings can help a lot,\u201d said Julia van Wesenbeeck, a Grade 5 student at\nConnaught. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Students like Julia and Annika were given an assignment to\nraise awareness for health. They decided that making \u2018get well\u2019 cards would\nmake a positive impact on patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients were delighted and touched by the gesture. It truly\nbrightened the day and let them know that people were thinking about them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also made a positive impact on the students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI knew that cards and people knowing that other people cared for them could help, but I also think that doing this activity helped me understand more <em>how<\/em> it helps,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to these students, we are reminded that when it comes\nto kindness, there is no age limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elementary school students make cards for patients at The Ottawa Hospital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":49469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[177,480,381],"class_list":["post-49466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-healthy-tomorrows","tag-community-engagement","tag-compassion","tag-patient-experience"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}