hospitals

Courses tagged with "hospitals"

This series of tracks looks at several aspects of health work including child protection services, hospitals and mental health providers with an aim to explaining everyday practices and ideas for the future. Material is taken from The Open University course K114 Introducing professional practice.
A programme-by-programme guide for the documentary series Desperate Midwives, about the midwives who work at Derby City General hospital.

You or someone else you know may be experiencing grief as a widow or widower and finding a way to cope through loss. In this article, Hazel Carter, who cared for her husband through motor neurone disease to the end of his life, describes her experience of grief and becoming a widow and about her thought-provoking insight into her journey from care giver to a self-published author.


Category: Health

What is it like supporting someone who knows they have a life-limiting diagnosis? You might think it is depressing or incredibly difficult. While it can be hard, there is still scope for joy and love. In this article, Hazel Carter shares her experience of what it was like after her husband, Alan, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND).


Category: Health

Have you ever considered how the location and spaces in end-of-life care impact on a carer’s experience? Let's look at how attention to detail can make a huge difference.

Category: Health
As new treatments come on stream, some carry a huge price tag. Closing the gap between what's possible, and what's affordable, is a challenge for the staff, and patients, of the Hospital.
Category: Health
The day of the Westminster Bridge terror attack, the team making the BBC/OU co-production Hospital were filming in St Mary's Hospital. Watch some of the activity as medical crews responded to the developing incident.
Category: Health
As medical facilities become targets in the ongoing war, medics are moving into the mountains. Imogen Mathers finds out more.
Category: Health
A new study of the bacteria found in the guts of children born before full-term shows the superbug problem is a growing threat.
Category: Health
To mark 115 years of the X-Ray, we explore them inside and out.
 
Category: Health
What happens when people with dementia move out of general hospital and into a Care Home? Caroline Holland is part of a project trying to answer that question.
Category: Health
Some of the debates started by the Open2 community
Category: Health
Former chair of Milton Keynes General Hospital Trust Margaret Hales says that you have to remember the people who can get lost behind NHS statistics and buzzwords
Category: Health
Shirley Reveley finds mixed messages about the role of polyclinics and walk-in centres while watching Can Gerry Robinson Fix The NHS?: One Year On.
Category: Health
Got health questions? Ask sister!
Category: Health
John and Peggy provide the crucial services which help the medical staff to function.
Category: Health
Our guide to internet resources on the NHS
Category: Health
Dementia can be distressing for patients and their families. The Hospital team follow staff at St Marys as they respond health care needs - which might not be best suited to time spent at A&E.
This extract from Care Welfare and Community Workbook 4: Resourcing Care explores why the 1990s saw a move to shift elderly patients from hospitals to social care
Please note: As part of a review of content, this course will be deleted from OpenLearn on Wednesday 7th of July 2021.This free course, Caring in hospitals, considers the type of care offered in hospitals, using Leeds General Hospital as a case study. The course looks at the people who have roles within the hospital, how they interact with each other and patients, and what they consider to be 'care'. The different approaches and contributions to care by doctors and nurses are explored and patients give their perspective on the care they receive.