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Succeeding in postgraduate study Badge icon
Education & Development

Succeeding in postgraduate study

...Nursing, vol. 18, pp. 1188–1192. Cottrell, S. (2013) ‘The Study Skills Handbook’, Palgrave Study Skills Series, 4th edn, Palgrave Macmillan. Dewey, J. (1903) Studies in Logical Theory, University of Chicago Press, Chicago. Dewey, J. (1910) How We Think, DC Heath, Boston. Dye, V. (2011) ‘Reflection, Reflection, Reflection: I’m thinking all the time, why do I need...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs
Learning from sport burnout and overtraining Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Learning from sport burnout and overtraining

...nurses and teachers) became exhausted while dealing with the chronic strain associated with their roles. They reportedly felt ‘burned out’. The workers reported emotional exhaustion, a loss of empathy towards their clients and feelings of being inept at work. Research into athletic burnout commenced in the 1980s, four decades ago. Three broad dimensions of burnout are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion
Money & Business

Hybrid working: wellbeing and inclusion

...nurse, and he was amazing. It was just very calm, organised. Ended up staying. Again, it was like I just went home at 4:00 in the morning. I was like, I've got to get back. I've got my daughter. And that's the other thing, when you've got a child it's you've still got to get on with life. And I think I ended up taking probably three or four days off because I really...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Everyday maths 1
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 1

...nurse has to order enough soup for 100 patients on a ward. Each patient will eat 400 ml of soup. How many litres of soup must the nurse order? Twenty people working in a craft workshop have to share the last two-litre bottle of glue. How many millilitres of glue can each person use? What would this be in centilitres? Answer First you need to work out how much soup you...
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Free course 48 hrs
Language in professional life
Languages

Language in professional life

...nursing blue and white, rather bland and eerily calm. From micro examination of verb forms, we could see the charity tended always to position itself as acting outwards, on other people or things, while not (at least linguistically) allowing the possibility of other parties acting on it from the outside. This observation, as for others, produced a ripple of recognition...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...nursed by his foster-father the blacksmith, who pays his debts, and from whom he learns humility and compassion. He finds work through a friend whose career he aided in secret during his time in London. Finally, he discovers that Estella has been mistreated by her husband and is humbled and a widow. However, the story does not make clear whether or not they eventually...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Partnerships and networks in work with young people
Health, Sports & Psychology

Partnerships and networks in work with young people

...nurse and a specialist sexual health worker in the voluntary sector. I’ve also been working with an education welfare officer who supports young people in care – encouraging them to take part in youth work. I’ve just had a young woman in care on work experience for a week, which was good. I’ve also got some good links with the sports development worker in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
How teams work
Money & Business

How teams work

...nurses who meet regularly for lunch in a hospital cafeteria may not realise that their lunch discussions are one of their main sources of knowledge about how to care for patients. Still, in the course of all these conversations, they have developed a set of stories and cases that have become a shared repertoire for their practice. Summarised from Wenger (2009) Every...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs