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Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary
OpenLearn Ireland

Three Irish Poets – Ellen O'Leary

...nurse Willie Bawn: Or is it an angel who sits by the hearth? An angel in heaven, a mother on earth. You may have got something along the following lines: three young children are left crying for their dead mother while their father is away drinking. During the night, their mother appears in the form of an angel to comfort and look after the children. At daybreak, the...
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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...nurse of the British Heart Foundation. Today, I'm going to show you how to check your pulse. Checking your pulse is important because it can detect any irregularities in the way your heart beats. It's quick and easy to do. You can even do it at home. I'm going to sit down now and check mine. Turn one of your hands over so your palm faces upwards. Can you see some creases...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Archive course extract: Attachment theory
Education & Development

Archive course extract: Attachment theory

...nursing staff. 4. An infant in a nomadic ethnic group where all adults take shared responsibility for the care of infants In this situation, the infant’s IWM is likely to hold an expectation that care will be available no matter who is turned to. To the extent that the different members of the group relate in different ways to the infant, the image of self may become...
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An introduction to data and information in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to data and information in health and social care

...nurses will collect information from Mrs Craig on the ward. The operating theatre staff will record data on their computer system during her operation to repair her fractured hip. The physiotherapist will document more information during rehabilitation. The district nurse, occupational therapist and perhaps the social work team will create more records on their systems...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development
Health, Sports & Psychology

Biological, psychological and social complexities in childhood development

...nurses when having an attack, as you do feel very scared, very panicked and confused and need someone to be calm and to make you calm. A calm person to be there to talk to you, to reassure you that everything is going to be ok, that you are safe now. Then to explain exactly what is going to happen next, step by step and why they are going to do it. For Chloe, distraction...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...nurse manager: the role of experiential learning in leadership development’, Journal of Nursing Management, 18, pp. 440–7. Crockett, E. (2017) The woman who inspired Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Available at: https://www.vox.com/ 2016/ 1/ 18/ 10785882/ martin-luther-king-dream-mahalia-jackson (Accessed: 1 October 2019). Haisha, L. (2019) "Great...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
For some people, staying awake might help fight depression
Health, Sports & Psychology

For some people, staying awake might help fight depression

...nurse in Italian, she begins to gesticulate, jabbing, moulding and circling the air with her fingers. As the minutes pass and Angelina becomes increasingly animated, I notice a musicality to her voice that I’m sure wasn’t there earlier. The lines in her forehead seem to be softening, and the pursing and stretching of her lips and the crinkling of her eyes tell me as...
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Ethics in science?
Science, Maths & Technology

Ethics in science?

...nursed them all in the forehold. The only way in which the sailors receiving the treatments differed would be in respect to those treatments. Otherwise, they would be similar. INTERVIEWER That he’s methodical, scientific. He has these clinical tests, clinical trials. SIR IAN CHALMERS That was the really important breakthrough. And that way of thinking is exactly the way...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs