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Research on young people with melanoma
Health, Sports & Psychology

Research on young people with melanoma

...nurse's knowledge and understanding of this disease. As young people with this disease may experience their journey outside specialist cancer services, the care delivery for this patient group require stronger links between services, working better together than apart. Further research is required to answer whether TYA diagnosed with melanoma are supported across the...
How are social workers portrayed in the media?
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How are social workers portrayed in the media?

...nurses, teachers, police officers and therapists. I looked at IMDb plot summaries from the 1950s to the 2010s and found that social work characters rarely feature. When they do, it’s usually as a plot device for a single episode. Once the storyline is resolved, the character disappears. Social workers in TV dramas are often portrayed as either judgmental bureaucrats or...
Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast
Health, Sports & Psychology

Understanding Female Genital Mutilation and its impact across the lifespan podcast

...Nurse working in Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland) and Jaz (a Social Worker and Programme Lead with the UK National FGM Centre), as they explore the practice of FGM and its’ injurious impact on women and girls across their life course. SENSITIVITY STATEMENT We appreciate that FGM is a highly sensitive subject area, and that this podcast contains content about...
An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare

...Nursing...An introduction to digital simulation in healthcare: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand the principles behind digital simulation identify the benefits of digital simulation for participants evaluate the potential impact of digital simulation on patients and healthcare professionals develop an understanding of the...
Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye
Health, Sports & Psychology

Grief and COVID-19: Mourning what we know, who we miss and the way we say goodbye

...nursing homes. Long term care professionals [Exhausted crying doctor/nurse in coronavirus protective gear N95 mask] Dr Kerry Jones, Katy Schnitzler and Dr Erica Borgstrom from the Faculty of WELS have undertaken a review of the experiences of long-term care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic. They found that community care facilities, including nursing and residential...
Challenging ideas in mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Challenging ideas in mental health

...nursing at The Open University. The material forms part of The Open University course K272, Challenging ideas in mental health... Challenging ideas in mental health A short introduction to this album. A quiet night on Roundhay Wing An abstract dramatisation set in the year 2000. We are introduced to Roundhay Ward, a psychiatric wing of a large hospital in Leeds. The lost...
Community Social Care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Community Social Care

...of fuel poverty and the various government schemes developed to combat the issues raised Bedfordshire MENCAP A detailed history of the Bedfordshire branch of MENCAP Degree in Learning Disabilities The shifting boundaries between health and social care inspired the University of Hertfordshire to create a joint degree in learning disabilities for nurses and social workers...
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Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Care before profit: working as a cleaner in a care home during the Covid-19 pandemic

...nurse that was the manager before, but you don’t need to be a nurse in a care home which I think is quite surprising. If you just have the business side of things and she ran it very much like a business, hardly left the office and the new manager didn’t know any of the residents at all and I find that shocking. I can understand that management need to do a lot of...