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How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?
Health, Sports & Psychology

How can Adult Carers get the best support during Covid-19 pandemic and beyond?

...resources are used as effectively as possible. Whether you work or volunteer for an organisation or are a carer yourself, this tool can promote a systematic approach to ensuring that what happens is based on firm evidence of what works. An “Into practice guide” accompanies every NICE guideline, summarised in the diagram below. [NICE guidelines diagram] This tool sets...
Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Women have heart attacks too - but why do they often go misdiagnosed?

...resources as well as a need for increased instrumental support in daily activities. This can mean they are less able to make their appointments or get their prescriptions filled. The situations older women often find themselves in when diagnosed with a cardiovascular condition reduce their chances of getting adequate exercise. Exercise is important to optimise heart...
Stress and Burnout in Aviation
Health, Sports & Psychology

Stress and Burnout in Aviation

...resources to the current task (Young, 2008). Although pilots may possess the capability to prevent life stressors from affecting their performance in the flightdeck, each individual pilot also has a certain level of stress, or a particular stressor, that could greatly hinder their ability to compartmentalise (Neubauer, 1999). According to Christy (1975), even pilots who...
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses This free course is adapted from a former Open University course DD307 Social psychology: critical perspectives on self and others....
Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Dreaming of an answer to narcolepsy: Why don't we understand sleep?

...open with a dullness I recognise. He turns, daintily steps into his basket and curls up for the rest of the interview. *** Back in the 1980s, the idea of locating the gene for canine narcolepsy was off-the-scale ambitious. Breeding narcoleptic Dobermans is harder than it sounds, as the afflicted tend to topple over mid-coitus, temporarily paralysed by a cataplectic thrill...
Financial statement analysis and interpretation
Money & Business

Financial statement analysis and interpretation

...Open University course BXI250 Intermediate financial accounting...Financial statement analysis and interpretation: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: explain why is it important to analyse and interpret financial statements explain how different stakeholder groups might be interested in different ratios carry out financial statement...
Systems thinking and practice
Digital & Computing

Systems thinking and practice

...artist Don't miss out: Course image: drpavloff in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 Licence. If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University - www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...
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Developing high trust work relationships
Money & Business

Developing high trust work relationships

...3 Trust as a belief: Adapted from Bromiley, P. and Cummings, L. (1996) Trust in organisations, Sage Publications. Don't miss out If reading this text has inspired you to learn more, you may be interested in joining the millions of people who discover our free learning resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses....