Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights on the activities of the National Mechanism for the Prevention of Torture in Poland in 2017 Good practices to share Nursing facility in Wrocław - the facility runs practical training for nurses and physiotherapists. Throughout the academic year, apart from the facility’s employees, care of patients is also taken by trainees i.e. students. The facility admits persons with disability, who have been referred by the Wrocław Municipal Office for a 21-day stay there. The patients have ensured specialist care, thanks to which their relatives have time to rest. The facility in Wrocław is the only institution visited by the NMPT which permits visits to patients both by family members with children and by pet animals. Nursing facility in Knyszyn – the facility has introduced a system of personnel rotation: the nursing facility’s personnel rotates with the personnel of the internal medicine department of the hospital in whose structure the facility operates. The solution aims to protect the facility’s personnel against occupational burnout to the risk of which those working with chronically ill people are exposed. Nursing facilities in in Słupsk, Gdańsk and Warsaw pay specific attention to the role of psychologists in the process of health improvement of their patients. The Warsaw facility employs as many as three psychologists. 67