To celebrate the international day of the midwife on 5 May Dr Jen Leamon, Dr Sue Way and Senior Lecturer Alison Taylor wanted to celebrate the voice of our undergraduate students from the School of Health and Social Care and asked students to share their experiences and talk about their journey to becoming a mid wife with BU.
The students recorded their experiences either as a video or audio blog.
To watch/listen to the prezi presentation, or reply with your own experinces click here:
The Humanising Healthcare through Historical Enquiry (HHHE) group seeks to provide a supportive environment for anyone who has an interest in the past. It offers a space where current and new research ideas can be discussed, journal submissions considered, and funding opportunities explored.
The group has three areas of interest:
Inter-professional and interdisciplinary working is encouraged and underpinned through partnerships with colleagues from universities and other organisations. We meet at the School of Health and Social Care once a term and welcome any new members. If you are interested in joining please email:
Dr Angela Turner-Wilson: wilsona@bournemouth.ac.uk or Associate Professor Francis Biley: fbiley@bournemouth.ac.uk
Members of the HHHE group, Sarah Keeley and Clare Cutler have created a poster.
If you would like a copy please click on the following link: HHHE Poster
We also have a blog link: http://blogs.bournemouth.ac.uk/hsc/category/humanising-healthcare-through-historical-enquiry/
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a web page: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/cqr/humanising-healthcare-historical-enquiry-group.html
Health issues in Nepal will be highlighted Thursday and Friday (19-20 April ) when BU academic and PhD student discuss their research.
Professor Edwin van Teijlingen and Mr. Pratik Adhikari from BU’s School of Health & Social Care will share research findings at the 10th Nepal Study Day in Reading.
The event will attracted researchers from across the UK and is organised by BNAC, the Britain-Nepal Academic Council. Nepal is a landlocked country situated between India and China and one of the poorest in the world. It is estimated that over 100,000 Nepalese people are currently living in the UK including retired and serving Ghurkha soldiers. This includes a small but growing people in Dorset.
Prof Edwin van Teijlingen will present an overview of a joint project with Tribhuvan University (Nepal), four UK universities, including BU and the Development Resource Centre, a NGO in Kathmandu. These institutions formed a Partnership on improving Access to Research Literature for Higher Education Institutions in Nepal (PARI) which is funded by the British Council and DFID. This project included a curriculum review of health-related courses covering all key Higher Education (HE) institutions in Nepal and a study of staff and students at these institutions to identify gaps around gathering existing research information we designed two-levels of workshops. The first comprised introductory one-day workshops we conducted at HE institutions across Nepal. The second was a five-day in-depth workshop run in January 2012 in Kathmandu. Workshops were very well attended, but a key observation was that the concept of systematic reviewing was new to the majority of Nepalese academics attending the workshops.
Bournemouth University PhD student Pratik Adhikari will be presenting findings from his thesis study on the health status of health risks in male Nepalese migrant workers in the Middle East and Malaysia. One of his conclusions is that health promotion and support for migrant workers should focus on providing insurance and easy access too health services.
Prof Edwin van Teijlingen is also a co-author on a paper presented by Dr. Padam Simkhada (Sheffield Univeristy), who is also Visiting Faculty at BU. This paper addresses the role of social, economic and demographic development in the reduction of maternal mortality in Nepal.
Dr. Steve Keen, one of Pratik’s supervisors said: “Bournemouth University is committed to increase its research involvement in international health, including its research in developing countries such as Nepal.”
“Of all UK institutions presenting at the Study Day, the BU is one of the single largest contributors,” added Prof van Teijlingen.
Sara White, framework leader undergraduate nursing, School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University talks to Nursing Times about dignity in nursing
The Commission on Dignity in Care’s Delivering Dignity: Securing Dignity in Care for Older People in Hospitals and Care Homes was published in February sets out ten key recommendations for hospital, and ten key recommendations for care homes to help tackle underlying concerns of undignified care.
Sara said: “Dignity is a complex phenomenon, which takes time to fully understand and appreciate. I believe the ability to comprehend care, compassion and dignity can only be fully understood with good education – not “training” as suggested in the report. Dignity is not “delivered” but is an integral aspect of a nurse’s role, part of which means being able to foster feelings of value and self worth in every patient and having the ability to encompass mutual respect.”
Sara’s comment piece is featured in the current issue of Nursing Times or can be viewed here
As a team the Centre for Post Qualifying Social Work are proud of our reputation and achievements and our aim is to improve the quality of social work practice in the UK through helping social workers increase their level of competence, knowledge and skills. To this end, we work tirelessly to ensure that our courses are relevant, current and reflect modern professional and policy contents.
In particular, the Leadership and Management courses have been designed, developed and evaluated to respond to the Social Work Task Force recommendation that a clear Leadership and Management Framework be developed for front-line social managers. During 2010/2011 we worked with a number of organisations to design, pilot and evaluate a leadership policy in social work/care and these units and courses are the product of this research and development.
The Employers’ Guide to Leadership and Management Programmes has been designed in conjunction with Leadership and Management Development for Social Work and Social Care publication released in September 2011.
Have you ever been to Lochmuir or Willow Farm? No, because neither place exists. They are fictional locations created by Marks and Spencer and Tesco as origins for their Salmon and Chicken.
Associate Professor in Food Service and Applied Nutrition Heather Hartwell spoke to Which? Magazine about her research into food labelling. Discussing how the choice of wording can evoke different emotions and affect our food buying habits.
The article explains that words such as ‘real’, homemade and hearty attract people because the words evoke feelings of comfort.
Professor Heartwell said ‘These words fall into the “affective” category. They allude to emotions that can trigger happy memories such as grandma’s apple pie. Manufacturers, retailers and caterers play the nostalgia card and it persuades consumers to buy their goods.’
The article is printed in the current edition of Which? Magazine
The spring 2012 edition of RCN student journal features Dr Janet Scammell discussing the pros and cons of placement grading.
BU has graded nursing students’ performance since 2007 and uses the grades to contribute to their final grades. Both students and mentors have found the system useful and other universities are now starting to use the same system.
Dr Scammell, comments “we felt the usual system of pass or fail provided limited feedback to students about how well or poorly they have performed and that was the rationale for change.”
The system works by using a five-point scoring system, each score is associated with a percentage range and the level achieved links in with the competencies required by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Second year nursing student at BU, Kathleen Butler, says “getting graded highlights which areas you fall down on, but also where you excel. With a pass or fail system, you don’t know whether you’re just scraping by.”
Dr Scammell continues “it would be good if there was a unified system of assessing placement performance across all universities in the UK.”
The placement grading system at BU has been evaluated positively with the system evolving in response to student and mentor feedback since it was introduced.
To add your thoughts on placement grading, join the debate on the RCN’s message board at https://www.rcn.org.uk/discussion_zone
Learn to Care and SWC to provide advice and guidance on the developing CPD agenda including the publication further guidance materials for the sector. Partnerships, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and the Accreditation of Prior Learning (APL): Supporting Work Force Development across the Social Care Sector, Third Edition.
We first published the first edition of ‘Partnerships, CPD and APL’ in 2006 as a response to the requests for advice, guidance and support from employers and employees. Four years on, the world of workforce development in social care had changed somewhat, and in reaction to the 15 recommendations published by the Social Work Task Force in 2009, a second edition was published in April 2010.
The recent work of the Social Work Reform Board (2010) and the launch of The College of Social Work have brought a new focus on the need for active quality partnerships between employers and social work educators. To ensure that employers and employees are informed and supported; a third edition is now needed and will be published in the near future.
Issues surrounding partnerships, CPD and APL can be both complex and sensitive. We do not profess to have all the answers, but instead we seek a way forward that will ultimately have a positive impact on people who use services and their carers.
To mark Eating Disorders Awareness week, which is between 20-26 February, Bournemouth University (BU) is providing a lecture which is open to staff, students and the wider community.
The lecture is entitled Eating Disorders; Promoting Wellbeing, led by Dr Ciaran Newell (Consultant Nurse). The lecture will explore the causes of eating disorders; in particular the environmental contribution, what works to help people suffering from them and ideas into how we can prevent them.
The lecture will be on Thursday, 23 February, 1 pm- 2.30 pm. Student Centre, Talbot House, Talbot Campus.
The session is free of charge, and there will be light refreshments available, if you would like to register your attendance please email: diversity@bournemouth.ac.uk.
This year’s event has been organised and supported by:
National Competence Framework for Safeguarding Adults
Learn to Care and Bournemouth University undertook this work in partnership to reflect the significant role that learning and developing plays in the delivery of high standards of social work and social care.
The framework will be invaluable to Adult Safeguarding Boards, practitioners and learning and development personnel, both in managing performance and delivering quality outcomes for people who are made vulnerable by their circumstances.
National Competence Framework for Safeguarding Children
This document complies with legislation, statutory guidance and best practice in relation to the safeguarding of children. Local Safeguarding Boards should take account of local needs, including an assessment of the effectiveness of multi-agency training to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people (Munro, 2011).
This document incorporates the recommendations from Professor Eileen Munro’s review into Child Protection in England and Wales.
The aim of this Framework, as with the other publication in this series – National Competence Framework for Safeguarding Adults – is to provide a baseline for standards of competence that individuals can expect to receive from those professionals and organisations, who are tasked with Safeguarding Children. It also provides employees and employers with a benchmark for the minimum standard of competence required of those who work to safeguard children across a range of sectors.
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