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The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care
Health, Sports & Psychology

The importance of person-centred approaches to nursing care

...health service provision. The personal relationships we formed with the nurses responsible for our care will have been important to us. For all patients, and their families, the relationships forged with nurses and other carers are central to the quality of their healthcare experience. The quality of these relationships is singled out in patient satisfaction surveys as...
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Article 5 mins
Bird ringing in Bog Meadows
OpenLearn Ireland

Bird ringing in Bog Meadows

...health of the birds. Another delivery, we’ve got a conveyer belt going on here. AIDAN CREAN: OK, very good. What have we got? What net was that? BIRD RINGER: Two. AIDAN CREAN: Net two, OK. And what’s in the bag? Oh very nice, lovely. DARRYL GRIMASON: Beautiful. AIDAN CREAN: Lovely. DARRYL GRIMASON: It’s a blackcap. AIDAN CREAN: It’s one of our priority species....
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Attachment in the early years
Education & Development

Attachment in the early years

...mental health problems or were involved in criminality; so-called ‘juvenile delinquents’, to use a term in common use at the time. He recognised a common theme in the life histories of these children; that they had either lost one or both parents early in childhood through separation or death, or they had had very poor parenting. The term ‘maternal deprivation’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)
Education & Development

Inclusive education: knowing what we mean (Wales)

...mental impairments need not prevent us from being able to live perfectly good lives. It is society’s unwillingness to employ these means to altering itself rather than us which causes our disabilities. (Rieser and Mason, 1992, p. 15) Many ‘learning difficulties’ can be conceived as ‘learning differences’, merely requiring a different pedagogic approach to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life
History & The Arts

Tolstoy and the search for the meaning of life

...mentally unsound, – on the contrary, I was in full command of my mental and physical powers, such as I had rarely met with in people of my age: physically I could work in a field, mowing, without falling behind a peasant; mentally I could work from eight to ten hours in succession, without experiencing any consequences from the strain. And while in such condition I...
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Article 15 mins
Building motivation and resilience in research
Science, Maths & Technology

Building motivation and resilience in research

...health in academia – an invisible crisis’, The Physiological Society. This article explores the challenges of mental health among academics. ‘Special Issue: Mental Health in Academia – Breaking the silence from top-down’, Marie Curie Alumni Association. This publication addresses mental health issues in academia and emphasises the ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
An introduction to the Social Work Hub
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to the Social Work Hub

...course such as Introducing social care and social work? Alternatively, you could look at an interactive such as The caring manager in health and social care. If you are interested in learning more about studying a qualification such as a degree or Certificate of Higher Education, you can find out more about the OU’s social work and social care programmes here....
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Article 5 mins
Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Concussion in football: Is it time to get ahead of the game?

...health, and the management of concussion at all ages and levels of football. So, what is being done to manage the risk of concussion in football and is it enough? [Tributes are seen outside the stadium for former Manchester United player Nobby Stiles prior to the Premier League match between Manchester United and Arsenal at Old Trafford on November 01, 2020 in Manchester,...
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Article 10 mins