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So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing
Health, Sports & Psychology

So, you want to be a nurse? A brief introduction to nursing

...research, participation in shaping health policy and in patient and health systems management, and education are also key nursing roles. (International Council of Nurses, 2002) There are key messages about nursing within this definition, including how the focus in nursing is not just on those who are ill but on maintaining the health of those who are well. This is a key...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introducing the philosophy of religion
History & The Arts

Introducing the philosophy of religion

...research. You need to find out about the life stories of Gandhi, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King, and see whether they lived hypocritically, or whether, on the contrary, they sincerely tried to practise in private what they preached in public. The same is true of the more general, but still not philosophical, question (F), ‘Are all religious people hypocrites?’....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting
Money & Business

Fundamentals of cost accounting and environmental management accounting

...research and development costs. These expenses are recorded in the accounting system and allocated or apportioned to the appropriate departments, and analysed to aid decision making. In addition to these costs, which are paid in the normal course of trading, there are other costs, notably depreciation, which do not necessarily involve a cash outlay during the period under...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Learning from major cyber security incidents
Digital & Computing

Learning from major cyber security incidents

...researcher, Marcus Hutchins, who accidentally discovered and activated the ‘kill switch’ of the malware the next day, on 13 May 2017. When inspecting the malware’s code, Hutchins noticed an unusually long internet domain name in the code. He checked and found out that the domain name was not registered, so he registered it. Unknown to him at the time, this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past
History & The Arts

History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past

...research into the history of reading use RED to follow up any personal interests in the history of reading...History of reading: An introduction to reading in the past: 1 Reading the English Bible - By Bob Owens The year 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the most widely-read book in the English language: the translation of the Bible published in 1611...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present
History & The Arts

The Ancient Olympics: bridging past and present

...research suggests that the intriguing Antikythera mechanism (a complex clockwork device from the 2nd century BCE that has baffled archaeologists for over a century) may have originally been used partly as an Olympiad calendar. [Worlds earliest computer] Figure 2 The Antikythera mechanism, dubbed the world’s earliest computer, was found by sponge divers in 1901 at the...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
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

...research findings relevant to a patient’s condition. The above list shows how daunting information requirements can be. A doctor needs everything from the simple and obvious (the patient’s name and address) to the complex and possibly obscure (the latest research findings on a rare disease)...An introduction to data and information in health and social care: 2.2 Data...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...research traditions as negative; for example, followers of Karl Marx view ideology as a form of ‘false consciousness’ or illusory thinking which causes people to have a distorted view of reality. Other researchers view ideology in a more neutral way as referring to different ways of construing the world and how it works; often these beliefs and assumptions are so...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs