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Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...Nurses, sales staff, engineers, chefs and cooks, and office workers, for example, often carry out some of these activities...Managing and managing people: 4.3 The roles of a manager - One of the best-known attempts to make some sense out of the seeming chaos of what managers actually do was made by Henry Mintzberg in 1971. He studied a number of chief executives and kept...
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...nurses to aid reflection, to see the bigger picture of what has taken place than even those in the space at the time could sense, and to help prepare those who have not yet experienced such situations. Such recordings can be used for research to collect data about patterns of behaviours and the use of space within and across situations. This can lead to new revelations...
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Health, Sports & Psychology

Introduction to adolescent mental health

...nurse to talk things through. Liz goes home with George and feels emotionally adrift. She believes she has let George down in some way and can’t see a way forward. She feels an immense sense of guilt and thinks back to a few years ago when she needed to take antidepressants during her marriage breakdown. She considers that perhaps her own struggles with depression have...
Understanding your sector Badge icon
Money & Business

Understanding your sector

...nurse in a special hospital Motor mechanic in a garage Words: 0 Comment The table below shows the responses you might have given, although your wording might be slightly different. Table 3 Filling the gaps example JOB PROFESSION BUSINESS/INDUSTRY SECTOR Primary school teaching assistant Teaching Primary school Education Credit controller in a car factory Accountancy Car...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding mental capacity Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding mental capacity

...nursing home for 24 residents. It's privately owned, funded mostly by the local authority. It's typical of the kind of home perhaps, half of us will end up in. Are you interested in the birds? MAN There's some there. INTERVIEWER Oh, yeah. CAREGIVER Doris, head this way, my love. INTERVIEWER When I got to Woodlands, the residents had just had breakfast. And what struck me...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Understanding devolution in Wales
Society, Politics & Law

Understanding devolution in Wales

...nurses not bureaucrats and red tape. Better schools – by setting tough new standards for literacy, numeracy and overall achievement.. Better job opportunities – by providing a voice in Europe and around the world, to attract investment and back Welsh companies. Better democracy – by ensuring that decisions about local schools and hospitals are made by people elected...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Collaborative problem solving for community safety
Money & Business

Collaborative problem solving for community safety

...nurses, teachers and police officers are all supposed to be what are known as ‘reflective practitioners’. This means that they are supposed to learn from what went well, and from their mistakes, to ensure that they become better at what they do. The need for such reflection actually applies to a very wide range of work. Would you like to have your car fixed by a...
The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK
History & The Arts

The history of female protest and suffrage in the UK

...nurses swelled to cope with the huge stream of casualties. The Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps performed a variety of tasks within the military, including canteen work and administration. By 1918 there was even a ‘Women’s Royal Air Force’ with women air mechanics. The terrible death toll at the front led to new questions being raised about whether all adult males...