The Changing Role of Nursing: Opportunities for Nurse-led Services for the Management of Chronic Disease and Diabetes in the UAE

There is little debate that current and future healthcare is, and will continue to be, dominated by the prevention and management of increasingly complex chronic health disease; the UAE is no exception. Preventive and disease management services directed at groups and individuals at risk of unfavourable health outcomes are core to the make-up of an effective health system. The burden of noncommunicable, chronic and diabetes-related diseases places a heavy strain on health service cost and service delivery requirements. The UAE is faced with the challenge of identifying and developing effective strategies for the prevention and management of the burgeoning prevalence of levels of chronic disease and diabetes, including the identification and development of appropriate health workforce and service development options. Nursing and other allied health professionals possess a broad range of professional competencies and skills to provide preventive and follow-up services in an effective and cost-efficient manner. The addition of non-medical led services has significant ability to strengthen traditionally designed health system

Fluid typography: transforming letterforms in television idents

This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of the following article: Barbara Brownie, (2015) "Fluid typography: transforming letterforms in television idents", Arts and the Market, Vol. 5 Issue: 2, pp.154-167, October 2015. Under embargo. Embargo end date: 5 October 2017. The Version of Record is available online at doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/AAM-07-2014-0024. Published by Emerald Insight.Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose that, within the practice of motion branding, transforming type has been largely neglected by existing theorists and its importance to wider marketing trends overlooked. It will be observed that previous texts on transitional letterforms have tended to focus on changes in global arrangement and in doing so have neglected to recognise the significance of changes that occur at a local level, within individual letterforms. Design/methodology/approach – Taking an interdisciplinary approach, with examples including idents and bumpers from Channel 4, Sky, FOX, Five and MTV. New methods of understanding these artefacts will be introduced, with emphasis on how they affect the relationship between broadcaster’s identities and the medium of television. Modes of definition and understanding that have previously been applied to holographic poetry will be applied to the field of on-screen artefacts. Findings – The paper will discuss how branding has adapted to incorporate the features of the medium of television, and propose new methods of classification for the associated processes of metamorphosis, construction, parallax and revelation. Originality/value – Motion branding, in the form of television idents, is frequently described as containing “motion typography”, but this and related terminology is vague or misleading – and reduces all forms of kineticism to simple motion. On-screen branding often operates more complex temporal behaviours. Lack of sufficient vocabulary to describe such transformations has forced practitioners to describe their work in terms of previously existing work, thereby limiting the perceived scope of their ideas and the possibility of innovation. This paper resolves the lack of existing vocabulary by providing new definitions of four categories of fluid transformation that appear in contemporary television idents.Peer reviewedFinal Accepted Versio

Dressing the Weightless Body: Subjective verticality and the disoriented experience of dress in microgravity

© Barbara Brownie 2020. The definitive, peer reviewed and edited version of this article is published in Clothing Cultures, Volume 6, Issue 3, October 2020, https://doi.org/10.1386/cc_00020_1.Design practice has historically been constrained by the assumption that designed objects, including clothing, will be made and worn in Earth gravity. The notion that designed objects have an upright state has influenced common approaches to design, including the tendency towards depiction and presentation of designed objects in elevation view, which, for fashion, is frequently understood in terms of silhouette. However, those who have experienced weightlessness, either in space travel or on board reduced gravity aircraft, describe a post-gravity experience that prompts them to revisit these assumptions and consider the extent to which future commercial space travel will liberate creative practitioners to operate at all angles and orientations. As we enter the commercial space age, fashion will be increasingly worn in a variety of gravitational conditions, and the dressed body will therefore be encountered at a variety of orientations, showcasing views of garments that are not often encountered on Earth, and that are therefore often overlooked by fashion designers. This article responds to descriptions of the post-gravity experience by identifying the need to consider alternative views of the clothed body, and consequently to define garments without reference to the silhouette in fashion design for the new commercial space age.Peer reviewe

Using GIS Tainted Glasses to Help Subdivide the Ogallala/High Plains Aquifer in Kansas

GIS/Support Services Manager, Geohydrology Section, Kansas Geological SurveyPlatinum Sponsors KU Institute for Policy & Social Research Gold Sponsors Bartlett & West KU Department of Geography KU Libraries State of Kansas Data Access and Support Center (DASC) Silver Sponsors Kansas Biological Survey KU Center for Global & International Studies KU Environmental Studies Program Bronze Sponsors Global Information Systems KU Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) TREKK Design Group, LL

Partnership in Action: A Case Study in Nursing Workforce and Leadership Development in East Africa

Session presented on Saturday, July 23, 2016: East Africa suffers an inordinate burden of disease and does not have the numbers of suitably qualified nurses and midwives to address this challenge.\u27 Focussed efforts in nursing workforce capacity building are needed to build capacity within nursing education, practice and leadership. An enhanced nursing and midwifery workforce is needed across all disciplines with development required at all levels including upgrade of the existing workforce, development of speciality qualifications and enhancement of leadership capacity.\u27This presentation involves a case study in which university private-public partnerships have successful contributed to nursing capacity enhancement of nursing education, practice and leadership in the East African nations of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.\u27 Capacity building is not a quick-fix activity.\u27 It takes time and resources.\u27 Equally, the success of capacity building efforts is context dependent.\u27 One size does not fit all and capacity building initiatives must be tailored to the unique cultural context and regulatory environment of each participating nation.\u27 \u27This presentation outlines specific details of capacity building strategies developed and implemented along with a comprehensive range of partnerships which have contributed to capacity building efforts.\u27 Details are provided regarding the process of stakeholder consultation re workforce need, the range of programmes developed along with graduate numbers and progression to-date.\u27 A full description of the broad range of partnerships needed to successfully implement the strategies along with an outline of factors critical for successful collaborative enterprise.\u27 \u27\u27 The outcomes achieved are presented along with a description of the methods used to evaluate progress and measure success.\u27 Outcomes are measured in terms of graduate numbers, progression to higher degrees, progression to nursing leadership positions and placement into rural and remote settings.\u27 Lessons learned are outlined for the benefits of nurse educators, nurse executives and policy makers wishing to increase nursing workforce capacity efforts and impacts in a developing context

The enzymic 11ß-hydroxylation of steroids

An investigation of the in vitro liphydroxylation of DOC was undertaken. The chief aim of this work being the attempted elucidation of the role of cofactors like fumarate in the liphydroxylation reaction. Advantage has been taken of a specific, sensitive, and accurate method for the determination of progesterone and related steroids in tissue preparations, which has been developed in this Department (Taylor, 1951)

The leaking pocket: The implicit struggle for skilled health workers between private not-for-profit and public sector in Tanzania

Public health services in sub-Sahara Africa countries face severe health workforce shortages exacerbated by both outward migration and internal public to private sector migration—Tanzania is no exception. This review was conducted to characterize the extent of health workforce shortages in Tanzania, and the factors impacting on the shortage. The authors reviewed publicly available data to assess the extent of health workforce shortages within Tanzania and the range of ‘pull’ and ‘push’ factors contributing to the shortages. Findings highlight significant health workforce shortages in Tanzania. Pull factors, the advantages offered that \u27pull\u27 workers towards the new jobs and well as Push factors, those negative factors that push workers out of their jobs, such as poor pay, working conditions, and management and governance issues, were identified. The issue of health workforce flow from the public to private not-for-profit sector was particularly notable and the impact this has on the ability to provide an effectively functioning public health system in Tanzania. The authors conclude that opportunities exist for the private not-for-profit sector to take an active role in the production of skilled human resources for health in Tanzania

A single competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the Australian health workforce: discussing the potential value add

This brief discusses the policy implications of a research study commissioned by Health Workforce Australia (HWA) within its health workforce innovation and reform work program. The project explored conceptually complex and operationally problematic concepts related to developing a whole-of-workforce competency-based education and training and competency-based career framework for the Australian health workforce and culminated with the production of three reports published by HWA. The project raised important queries as to whether such a concept is desirable, feasible or implementable – in short what is the potential value add and is it achievable? In setting the scene for discussion, the foundation of the project’s genesis and focus of the study are highlighted. A summary of key definitions related to competency-based education and training frameworks and competency-based career frameworks are provided to further readers’ commonality of understanding. The nature of the problem to be solved is explored and the potential value-add for the Australian health workforce and its key constituents proposed. The paper concludes by discussing relevance and feasibility issues within Australia’s current and changing healthcare context along with the essential steps and implementation realities that would need to be considered and actioned if whole-of-workforce frameworks were to be developed and implemented