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Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are mobile phones increasing health inequality in India?

...nurses, for example, or leapfrog clinic queues by making appointments beforehand. He calls for more research into the social impact of mHealth (mobile health), which refers to mobile-device supported medical practice, saying it has been swept up in an optimism that has left quantitative analysis behind. “Everyone is assuming that mobile phones are making the world...
Accessibility and inclusion in digital health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Accessibility and inclusion in digital health

...nurse. If they're going to carry out a treatment on the baby or anything, they can flick a switch, and the mum gets a comfort message saying that the video feed has been stopped. But it's a continuous feed of the baby basically. Nothing is stored. Everything is all secure. It is basically a feed from the camera to the server from the technical perspective and then to...
Death and medicine: postponement and promise
Health, Sports & Psychology

Death and medicine: postponement and promise

...nurses behave around patients: Nurses’ definitions of the patient’s illness status – that is, their expectations – affect their behaviour towards him. Therefore, the moment when their expectations change is significant. For example, even when the physician’s cues imply that the patient is doomed, as when he stops blood transfusions, the nurses may still not be...
Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and person-centred care

...nursing home] Health and care professionals have a role in ensuring that the treatment people receive in later life is timely, appropriate and accessible, irrespective of people’s age, background, financial circumstances or where they live. For professionals and services, being more aware of an individual's lived experience, and how this may affect their health status...
Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition
Health, Sports & Psychology

Nine top tips on talking about sex… for young people with a life-limiting or life-threatening condition

...nurse or a doctor. It will be easier to discuss things if you find someone that you can talk to. 3: It’s OK to ask questions Transcript Never feel afraid to ask questions and never let someone shut you down. If you want to find out more about sex, intimacy and relationships then remember that you have the right to receive information and support. 4: Be body confident...
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...Nursing (RCN). The RCN cannot confirm competence of any practitioner following completion of this course....Introduction: Introduction - integrity – transparency – respect – fairness – teamwork To protect the public by delivering highly effective oversight of regulation and registration. (Professional Standards Authority, 2024) Regulators play a vital role in...
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic
Society, Politics & Law

Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the Covid-19 pandemic

...nursing, to be re-labelled as ‘essential’ during the pandemic. You will explore the interaction of theoretical lenses and the practical work of artists, through the intersectional feminist exhibition ‘This Is Essential Work’ which explores different aspects of domestic care work during the pandemic. Essential for what? ‘‘The conditions created by the pandemic...
I had cancer - now stop supporting just me
Health, Sports & Psychology

I had cancer - now stop supporting just me

...nurses clothing. She didn’t take away the cancer. But lessened the stress. Put my mind at a relative ease. And beyond that, she helped my family. Cared for my carers. That truly changed everything. [Jack Brodie in black and white] What would you change about the view on cancer in teenagers? At that time, being a “patient”, I was relatively well supported. I sat on...