City slick with country know-how: implications of supporting students from urban backgrounds for the future of rural nursing

Canberra, AC

Improving undergraduate nursing students research competence and confidence through a mentoring project

Milperra, NS

Preparing the foundations for video-based, practice-placement support: establishing the role from a students’ perspective

Currently, many placement-based health programme students within the UK are supported through face-to-face visits from university staff. Whilst cited in literature as being of value, the face-to-face nature of this contact is not supported. Alternatives including video-based communications methods offer the potential for cost effective, environmentally responsible support. However, in order to establish the fitness for purpose of alternative approaches, the content and purpose of current support needs to be understood. This project aimed to investigate student perceptions of the ideal content and purpose of clinical support visits, and alternatives to the current face-to-face approach. Fifty-six Physiotherapy undergraduate students responded to questionnaires with a further nine participating in a follow-up focus group. Participants emphasised the value of the visit in guiding learning, ensuring progression and resolving arising issues, and highlighted concerns over alternative approaches. Focus group participants discussed the importance of personal and professional confidence in directing requirements for support, and went on to propose a menu of options for methods of communication.Whilst limited in some applications, video technologies may be one of the options. Overall, however, this project supports the need for consideration of individualised learning journeys within curriculum planning

Hypergolic ignitor

An ignitor for use with the MC-1 rocket engine has a cartridge bounded by two end caps with rupture disc assemblies connected thereto. A piston assembly within the cartridge moves from one end of the cartridge during the ignition process. The inlet of the ignitor communicates with a supply taken from the discharge of the fuel pump. When the pump is initially started, the pressure differential bursts the first rupture disc to begin the movement of the piston assembly toward the discharge end. The pressurization of the cartridge causes the second rupture disc to rupture and hypergolic fluid contained within the cartridge is discharged out the ignitor outlet

Fuel Effects on Ignition and Their Impact on Advanced Combustion Engines (Poster)

The objective of this report is to develop a pathway to use easily measured ignition properties as metrics for characterizing fuels in advanced combustion engine research--correlate IQT{trademark} measured parameters with engine data. In HCCL engines, ignition timing depends on the reaction rates throughout compression stroke: need to understand sensitivity to T, P, and [O{sub 2}]; need to rank fuels based on more than one set of conditions; and need to understand how fuel composition (molecular species) affect ignition properties

Tratamento da hipertensão arterial nos doentes com obstrução brônquica

ABSTRACTArterial hypertension and bronchial obstruction are very commun diseases in the population, it is indeed not rare that both conditions exist in the same person. It is fundamental to treat each one of them without aggravating the other. Concerning the treatment of hypertension there are in fact drugs that aggravate or cause bronchial obstruction and should be used with great precaution or even be contra-indicated.In this paper considering bronchial obstruction the indicated anti-hypertensive drugs are calcium channel blockers. serotonin antagonists, diuretics and the alpha 1 antagonist drugs. The contra-indicated anti-hypertensive drugs are the beta blockers. The anti-hypertensive drugs to be used with great precaution are the angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors and alpha 2 agoinst drugs