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The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England
Health, Sports & Psychology

The drive to improve patient safety in the NHS in England

...education provision and imposed policies. The ‘Berwick Report’ calls for the NHS to embrace ‘wholeheartedly an ethic of learning’ from failures and near misses. The point is to understand how organizational factors may prompt people to make errors, or prevent them from being noticed early enough. The report argues that the ability to actually achieve this culture...
Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?
Education & Development

Asexuality 101: Isn’t that for plants?

...Education Network (AVEN), the network is still going strong and provides resources and community. Since then the community has grown, adopted a symbol (a black ring worn on the right-hand middle finger), had our first Pride Parade entry (in San Francisco, 2009), created a Pride Flag (2010, see above!) and has been growing in awareness and support, with a handful of...
Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe
Health, Sports & Psychology

Think you’re better at driving than most? How psychological biases are keeping our roads unsafe

...education. Safety campaigns can only work if people think the messaging is relevant to them and choose to change their behaviour. But psychological research shows that many people are overconfident in their driving abilities and think it’s ‘normal’ to drive recklessly and break road laws. The number of people who are killed or seriously injured on UK roads has...
Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital
Health, Sports & Psychology

Enabling parents to improve children’s services: Walking the Walk in Evelina London Children’s Hospital

...education (display boards) or team breaks. It also showcased the benefits of bereavement suite spaces for babies, children and young people of all ages. When accessing the mortuary, the team highlighted how the presence of objects like industrial dustbins, plain tarpaulin used on concealment trolleys, and selection (or absence) of wall art can have a negative impact on...
Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?
History & The Arts

Socrates - Teacher, Paragon or Chatterbox?

...education should be: the point of education, on this view, is not just to tell people facts, but to teach them how to think for themselves and to subject their own views to critical scrutiny. Socrates denied he was a teacher: but some would argue that he is just what a teacher should be. Finally, Socrates’ life – and more importantly, his death – have been taken as...
Is your social media use impacting your future?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Is your social media use impacting your future?

...education’, in Dyson, S. and McCallister, M. (eds.) Routledge International Handbook of Nurse Education. UK: Routledge. Statista (2019) Global active usage penetration of leading social networks as of February 2019. Available at: www.statista.com/statistics/274773/global-penetration-of-selected-social-media-sites/ (Accessed 22 January 2022). Now take a decision-making...
The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before
Society, Politics & Law

The 'what now Wednesday' after the Super Tuesday before

...Technology In 2015, political pundits universally agreed that Donald Trump could not win the Republican nomination. Following Super Tuesday’s results, it appears that everything we know about presidential nominating contests is wrong – Trump appears on the verge of becoming the Republican nominee. Trump is not the unifying figure his party needs. While the polls were...
Beaghmore Stone Circle
OpenLearn Ireland

Beaghmore Stone Circle

...technology, the stone axe. And this is an example, a very good example, of a porcelanite axe which is probably from either the Tievebulliagh factory on the Antrim Coast or the Brockley factory on Rathlin Island. PRESENTER: Clearly, a major technical innovation at that time. CLAIRE FOLEY: Oh clearly, I mean you could actually compare it to the invention of the tractor in...