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Felly, rydych chi eisiau bod yn nyrs? Cyflwyniad byr i nyrsio
Health, Sports & Psychology

Felly, rydych chi eisiau bod yn nyrs? Cyflwyniad byr i nyrsio

...Nursing 2020’ Sefydliad Iechyd y Byd, mae 27.9 miliwn o nyrsys ledled y byd ac mae’r gweithlu nyrsio byd-eang yn ffurfio’r grŵp mwyaf o weithwyr ym maes gofal iechyd (Sefydliad Iechyd y Byd, 2020). Mae gan bob gwlad ei dull ei hun o addysgu nyrsys, ond ar hyn o bryd y DU yw’r unig wlad sydd â phedair ‘maes’ nyrsio ar adeg cymhwyso fel Nyrs Gofrestredig. Mae...
Public health approaches to infectious disease
Science, Maths & Technology

Public health approaches to infectious disease

...nurses and midwives, as well as doctors, are male. Asafesh and Almaz have graduated from the one-year residential training programme and now work in rural Health Posts in different regions of Ethiopia. They each work with another Health Extension Practitioner to take care of the 5000 inhabitants of their communities. Slide 22 (12:33) The vital importance of the Health...
Gene testing
Science, Maths & Technology

Gene testing

...nurse with special training in genetics. The core value of genetic counselling is often taken to be non-directiveness; it is not the counsellor's job to tell a patient what to do, but simply to help them to make an informed decision. Thus genetic counselling is ‘not about making wise decisions, but about making decisions wisely’. Counsellors should not even advise...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...nurses focus on monitoring medication and others on more psychological approaches such as specific forms of talking or behavioural therapy. However, while some nurses who work in the community may lean towards one approach in their own practice, they are likely to work in a community mental health team made up of workers from different professions and who take different...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...nurse, and specifically with being a sick children’s nurse. I did two months placement at a paediatric hospital as part of my general training, and I met many children who spent huge chunks of time in the hospital, often on their own, sometimes in pain, away from their family, and they were often very bored. I often used to wonder what the impact was on them in the long...
Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner
Education & Development

Learning to teach: becoming a reflective practitioner

...nursing or social work and can be thought of in a number of ways. It can be described as a learning tool, something that is going to help you to synthesise, explain, make sense of and ultimately develop meaning from, your experiences. It can be considered to be a professional competence, as reflected in the standards you are expected to achieve by the end of your Initial...
Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Half man, half circuit: Who are the people who are choosing to become cyborgs?

...Nurses and technicians, she said, would be sufficiently well-equipped to carry out these fairly simple procedures, with only larger devices possibly requiring a surgeon. It therefore falls to the hands of tattoo and body modification artists to conduct the procedures or, in one case I heard of, a veterinarian (the grey-suited man who implanted Michael’s magnet at the...
We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?
Science, Maths & Technology

We might end up being looked after by robots. How do we prepare for that?

...nurses carrying the patients.] RIBA is a robot designed to help medical staff carry patients. It's also available for touring productions of An Officer And A Gentleman. In truth my reaction to Charlie, far from being odd or childish, is pretty typical. Robots, of course, are hardly new. Over the last few decades we’ve had industrial devices that assemble cars, vacuum...