Steven Wells has successfully combined his nursing and horticulture careers to be working as a clinical nurse specialist, horticultural therapist and the Gardens and Grounds Project Officer at Austin Health. He is a passionate advocate for gardens and horticultural therapy within healthcare settings and the benefits that they have for patients, their families and staff. He has developed the successful horticultural therapy program and sensory gardens at Austin Health’s Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre and has also developed gardens across Austin Health hospitals. Steven was the 2012 ABC Gardening Australia magazine Gardener of the Year. He was awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 2015 to research the development use and management of therapeutic gardens in healthcare settings, and in 2017 was awarded a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow for his ongoing work and commitment to the the field of horticultural therapy and therapeutic gardens within healthcare.
Project
To research the development, use and management of therapeutic gardens within healthcare settings
Singapore
United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
USA
Health and Medicine
Steven Wells
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