Past, present and future: perspectives on an oral history of intellectual disability nursing

Thirty-one participants engaged in this oral history research study aimed at exploring the lived experience of intellectual disability nurses and healthcare assistants’ knowledge of the trajectory of intellectual disability nursing over the last 30 years in the Republic of Ireland and England. This paper documents some of these experiences offering perspectives on intellectual disability nursing and what is important for the future. Findings from Ireland consider the nature of intellectual disability services and the registered nurse in intellectual disability. Findings from England focus on opportunities and restrictions in intellectual disability nursing, shared visions, the changing context within which work took place and also the internal and external supports that impacted their roles. It is evident that intellectual disability nurses must be responsive to the changing landscape of service provision and also the requirements for contemporary new roles to meet the changing needs of people with intellectual disabilities

‘Intellectual disability nursing, the Cinderella relation of nursing’: marginality explored through the oral histories of intellectual disability nurses.

This paper draws on work undertaken for an oral history project during 2018 - 2020, which sought to explore the careers of 31 intellectual disability nurses from England, UK and the Republic of Ireland, with at least thirty years experience. In both jurisdictions some participants had worked within long-stay institutions built in previous centuries, which have now all but closed; being replaced with smaller living configurations. Few practising intellectual disability nurses have experience of working in such institutions, and this makes it apposite to hear their important stories. Their narratives provide new insights into how these nurses have been marginalised from their professional group by a complex interplay of hegemonic tensions, parallel stigmatisation, recruitment issues, and emotional labour

The calcium channel β2 (CACNB2) subunit repertoire in teleosts

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MIGRATION IN THE GRASSHOPPER MELANOPLUS SANGUINIPES (FAB.). I. THE CAPACITY FOR FLIGHT IN NON-SWARMING POPULATIONS

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MIGRATION IN THE GRASSHOPPER MELANOPLUS SANGUINIPES (FAB.). II. INTERACTIONS BETWEEN FLIGHT AND REPRODUCTION

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Experimental parameter tuning of power system stabilizer

Power system stabilizers (PSS) have been studied for many years as a method to increase power system stability. This paper is focused on the tuning and structure of the PSS. The generator control system is introduced to illustrate the working environment of the PSS. The mathematic model of the generator, automatic voltage regulator (AVR) and PSS are analyzed, and the system transfer function in presence of the PSS is derived. Base on the transfer function, a new tuning method is introduced which does not require all the system parameters. It is an experiment based tuning method of which frequency response tests are at the core. The feasibility of this tuning method is illustrated and verified for the real power system in the power control lab of the PCS2000 Company. Our experiments show that after tuning, system damping is increased and the oscillation is reduced which proves the effectiveness of our PSS tuning method. © 2012 IEEE