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The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...health service provision. The personal relationships we formed with the nurses responsible for our care will have been important to us. For all patients, and their families, the relationships forged with nurses and other carers are central to the quality of their healthcare experience. The quality of these relationships is singled out in patient satisfaction surveys as...
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...health of the birds. Another delivery, we’ve got a conveyer belt going on here. AIDAN CREAN: OK, very good. What have we got? What net was that? BIRD RINGER: Two. AIDAN CREAN: Net two, OK. And what’s in the bag? Oh very nice, lovely. DARRYL GRIMASON: Beautiful. AIDAN CREAN: Lovely. DARRYL GRIMASON: It’s a blackcap. AIDAN CREAN: It’s one of our priority species....
What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about
Health, Sports & Psychology

What the Applying Psychology to Work hub is about

...health, productivity), as well as improve overall functioning within organisations (culture, relations, productivity and wellbeing). [neon sign - think about things differently] What is the Applying Psychology at Work Hub? The Applying Psychology to Work hub is a collection of free resources – articles, videos, audios and courses – that have been curated by a team of...
Introducing environmental decision making
Nature & Environment

Introducing environmental decision making

...public image. By 2001, BAA had established an informal EMS integrating environmental health and safety management programmes with annual publications stating environmental objectives and targets, which were audited independently. A UNEP/Sustainability Ltd survey published in 2000 identified BAA’s EMS as one of the most comprehensive and ambitious in the world...
Why is Mongolia a good place to die?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why is Mongolia a good place to die?

...weekly prescription of morphine tablets – all covered by Mongolia’s national health insurance scheme. But Tumurbat’s condition has worsened in recent days and, as Odontuya and Solongo learn more, it is clear he and his family have not been sure how to react. Enkhjargal has not bought an additional drug, dexamethasone, that had been prescribed to reduce the inflammation around her husband’s liver and thereby temper the pain.......
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...public outing of Harvey Weinstein as a serial sexual abuser, award ceremonies have become spotlights to display solidarity and declare time on sexual harassment and gender inequalities in and beyond the film industry. Beginning with the Golden Globes and repeated at the BAFTAs and others around the world, high-profile actors have worn black to demonstrate solidarity and...
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...public could buy for 1s 6d, and by 1933 had 27,000 schools on its distribution list. For its 1931 ‘Buy British’ campaign, the EMB printed more than four million posters, right down to miniature versions for car windscreens, and famous aviator Amy Johnson’s aircraft flew over London with Buy British posters plastered to its wings, and more in its belly as cargo...
The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse
Science, Maths & Technology

The Silver Bridge Disaster: The collapse

...public opinion, uh, almost required that bridge to be closed to vehicular traffic. Walter Carpenter So I sneaked through the bars of the barrier and walked across the bridge and the people that were waiting to get some way to cross, they just followed me like little chicks following a mother hen and there were just a trail of us but after Dick asked me, he said,...