Nursing instructor helps students understand the healing power of pets
People love their pets, but for senior citizens, a companion animal can also be powerful medicine.
Veterinary Medicine
Horse therapy helps teach nursing students the value of presence
Some patients are nonverbal, for example, or can’t communicate with health care providers because of a language barrier. Some patients are a little scary. And horses, like patients, react to a person’s body language and can sense when someone isn’t “truly with them,” explains Jayne Beebe, a senior instructor at the WSU College of Nursing in Yakima.
