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Introducing professional practice
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing professional practice

...Care Assistant A Ann, a Health Care Assistant, describes a typical day for her A day in the life of a hospital ward: Working in Teams The staff of Ward 29 discuss the importance of working as a team to ensure good patient care and sound medical practice A day in the life of a hospital ward: working with patients The staff on ward 29 talk about their involvement with...
One minute methods - sampling
Health, Sports & Psychology

One minute methods - sampling

Like the babies in Laura Schultz’s experiments, discover why researchers take care over the generalisations they make. ...Transcript.
Valuing death
Health, Sports & Psychology

Valuing death

...Care qualifications. Death is part of life and is something we all need to face; not only our own death, but the deaths of those around us. Yet many of us are unprepared for this major event in our lives. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed us all to more deaths. However, those deaths were likely to be in hospital with few, if any, family or friends close by. In this first...
Investigating environmental futures through speculative design
Society, Politics & Law

Investigating environmental futures through speculative design

...care for a tree as well as tell stories about its growth over time. The prototype consists of two boxes, one for jewellery and the other for memories. The jewellery contains bio-sensing devices and can be placed anywhere on the body, where it produces haptic and sonic effects based on the signals it receives from sensors attached to the tree, which are in turn responding...
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Science, Maths & Technology

Understanding autism

...adult child. As time passes, parents themselves are likely to become less able to care. This may then impact on siblings, who by this time may have children of their own. You will learn more about the situation of autistic adults in Week 7...Week 6: Family life and education: 1.5 Family resilience - Families with one or more autistic members have often been noted as...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Changemakers
Society, Politics & Law

Changemakers

...care about, affect you or your community or family? Small actions can lead to big changes...Be a changemaker We live at a time of Welsh, UK, and global challenges—but, also, a time of possibility and opportunity. How can ordinary young Welsh citizens make a difference to these challenges? How can they be active citizens? How can they be Changemakers? We’ll show you...
Activity 30 mins
Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'
Health, Sports & Psychology

Meet the OU experts behind 'Hospital'

...care interventions at all levels of the organisation. Over six episodes you will see staff working within highly stressed environments – often having to manage resource demands that don’t stretch sufficiently to accommodate all needs; you will meet patients – many with complex care needs who are faced with uncertainty about treatment; you will see staff frustrated...
Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?
Money & Business

Will Brexit force British retirees to return from Spain?

...care and support. They had been getting by with support from friends or voluntary organisations that operate in Spain. However, since the EU referendum, their lives have become fragile and uncertain. Health and pensions By and large the main concern for these pensioners is healthcare and whether they will still be able to access free healthcare once the UK leaves the EU....