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Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...nurses is supported by health care assistants, and in social work personal assistants provide support to children in care (‘looked-after children’). Ian Kessler (2002) suggests the following reasons for these developments: In many areas of the UK, there have been growing problems recruiting and retaining qualified professionals such as nurses and teachers. There has...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What should I expect when I am nearing the end of my life?

...nursing care is less during evenings, weekends and at night. What should I try to do, say, see? I encourage people entering the last weeks of life to do everything and anything they can do or need to do. This may often include will writing, practical arrangements, seeing loved ones, friends, pets … saying what they need to say, while they still can. Do this as soon as...
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Article 5 mins
Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Will more money for the NHS deliver for midwife services?

...nursing and midwifery staff with student debts during a decade of NHS pay restraint is not the way to attract, recruit and retain the new full time staff we need. And let’s not forget, the NHS as a whole is a long way from being out of the woods. The £8bn funding agreed as part of the NHS Five Year Plan was aimed at plugging the spending gap. If the government is...
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Article 5 mins
A gift of life at the end of life
Health, Sports & Psychology

A gift of life at the end of life

...Nurses in organ donation NHSBT Donor family National Advisory Group. Film credits: Producer & Director: Mary Pattisson Academic Consultant: Vicki Caldwell Director of Photography: Monika Davies Director of Photography: Josh Gurner 1st Assistant Camera: Kallan Summerfield Sound Recordist: Guy Dowsett Motion Graphics: Miguel Navarrete Post Production: Caupolicán Carquez....
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Video 15 mins
From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world
Health, Sports & Psychology

From curing to caring? Exploring the role of spiritual healing in a biomedical world

...nursing, 11(2), pp. 253–258. Powell, A. (2024) Economic update: Inactivity due to illness reaches record. Available at: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/economic-update-inactivity-due-to-illness-reaches-record/#:~:text=Economic%20inactivity%20continues%20to%20rise,because%20of%20long%2Dterm%20sickness (Accessed: 11 October 2024). Soundy, A. et al. (2015)...
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Article 5 mins
Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Society, Politics & Law

Reflections on resilience for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers

...nurse, saw a need for LGBTQ+ asylum seekers to have support. Many asylum seekers were coming to Croydon as the Home Office base is there. Ray set up a group called Rainbows Across Borders, welcoming anyone who needed help and support in relation to persecution for their sexuality and/or gender identity. People could sometimes be taken to detention centres at little or no...
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Article 5 mins
Female genital mutilation (FGM) Collection
Health, Sports & Psychology

Female genital mutilation (FGM) Collection

...nursing, midwifery and social work and the allied health and social care professions. They need to know about FGM to: recognise women and girls at risk and escalate immediately to the relevant bodies. meet the needs of women and girls who have had FGM with a compassionate, non-judgmental, person-centred, holistic approach. signpost people to appropriate supportive care...
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Article 5 mins
Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century
History & The Arts

Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century

...nursed family members within the home and worked as nurses, healers and midwives within the community. In the eighteenth century, a few women worked as ‘doctresses’ and ‘surgeonesses’, having received some form of training similar to male practitioners. However, when formal medical training began to be developed in hospitals and medical schools in the early...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs