Composing the symphony of interprofessional care: A reflection on innovations in interprofessional education

Following the succession of high profile serious case and service reviews (for example Lord Laming, 2003 and Francis, 2013), interprofessional working continues to be an identified area of development within health and social services. In response to this, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) have issued guidelines and recommendations for interprofessional education to become embedded across the professional courses (NMC, 2010; HCPC, 2014). The University of Huddersfield continued their proactive approach to inter-professional education (IPE) by revalidating all health professional courses in 2012, creating new and innovative modules across the professions. This poster will focus on the experience of facilitating a Year 2 module, ‘Interprofessional working in context’. The module includes students and staff from all fields of nursing, midwifery, occupational therapy, podiatry and physiotherapy, and explores the key features and challenges of interprofessional working within the context of contemporary health and social care services (Day, 2013; Thistlethwaite, 2012). Due to practice placement commitments of the different professions, this module is predominantly delivered through weekly online directed study supported by an online communication tool and a one day conference event mid-way through the academic year. The multiprofessional group assessment encourages students to meet and collaborate with their peers, whilst also considering the priorities and commitments of the different courses. Colleagues from clinical areas are invited to provide the key note lectures to support student participation in creative workshops to consolidate the learning experience. This approach facilitates ‘real life’ experience of team-working within an interprofessional and interagency context. The module philosophy actively encourages the students to work within a team whilst maintaining the integrity of their own profession and the professional codes which regulate them. This poster will be a visual representation of how effective multiprofessional teams are able to work and learn together to successfully deliver effective person centred care. This will include a metaphorical visual reflection of staff and student experiences on the modul

Reaching Out to Tribal Communities: Lessons Learned and Approaches to Consider

When transportation safety decision-making is desired, the involvement and engagement with a community is essential. A streamlined delivery of a project or program is more likely to occur when active dialogue and an exchange of ideas occurs in advance and occurs frequently. This is particularly important in tribal communities, who value sustained relationships and represent the focus population of this study. The research team, on six separate occasions, met with local and regional tribal leaders to explore and discuss transportation safety needs within and outside tribal communities, as well as discern the recommended approaches to foster ongoing dialogue about these needs. In all cases these discussions closely correlated with existing research studies or activities; transportation safety and equity is not seen as separate from other tribal foci and community needs. Specific recommendations to consider, in no particular order, included the following: invest respectfully enough time for people to talk; tribes think long-term and consider the impact of any decision from a long-term viewpoint so an iterative process and re-sharing of ideas is critical; the power of decision is in the hands of the tribe and its members; do not lump tribes together as each tribe is sovereign and unique and every community should be expected to think differently; all tribes are unique as is the environmental and social context; to disseminate information widely and iteratively, do so when there is a large group or event; be sure to understand the Tribal governance, decision making, and organizational structure; know who is the tribal Chairman or Chairwoman; and develop an emic and etic understanding of the community

Evaluation of readability and accuracy of information leaflets in general practice for patients with asthma

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Comparing generalisation in children and adults learning an artificial language

Successful language acquisition involves generalization, but learners must balance this against the acquisition of lexical constraints. Examples occur throughout language. For example, English native speakers know that certain noun-adjective combinations are impermissible (e.g., strong winds, high winds, strong breezes, *high breezes). Another example is the restrictions imposed by verb sub-categorization (e.g., I gave/sent/threw the ball to him; I gave/sent/threw him the ball; I donated/carried/pushed the ball to him; * I donated/carried/pushed him the ball; Baker, 1979). A central debate has been the extent to which learning such patterns depends on semantic cues (Pinker, 1989) and/or distributional statistics (Braine et al., 1990). The current experiments extend previous work which used Artificial Language learning to demonstrate that adults (Wonnacott et al., 2008) and 6 year olds (Wonnacott, 2011) are able to learn lexically based restrictions on generalization using distributional statistics. Here we directly compare the two age groups learning the same artificial language, with a view to exploring maturational differences in language learning. In addition to manipulating frequency (across high and low frequency items) and quantity of exposure (across days), languages were constructed such that a word’s semantic class was helpful for learning the restrictions for some types of lexical items, but potentially misleading for others

Educational Leadership Can Dance: A Deeper Look into the Efficiency Behind Evaluations of Dance Educators

Brown, Helen. Educational Leadership Can Dance: A Deeper Look into the Efficiency Behind Evaluations of Dance Educators. Unpublished Master of Art thesis, University of Northern Colorado, 2020. The purpose of this study was to provide information on the issue of dance educator evaluation’s level of integrity, potential biases, and efficiency. Further, this study also acts as a review of current evaluation systems within public schools across the United States. The researcher received information about the evaluation systems from eleven dance educators in addition to how nine educational leaders evaluate their dance educators, along with one educational leader’s personal insight into their respective evaluation process. The research instruments utilized were online surveys and interviews. Both the surveys and interview responses were analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively, depending on the nature of data provided. Limitations to this study included COVID-19, a low number of participants, and scheduling conflicts with interview participants. The surveys and instruments were created by the researcher in an attempt to be unbiased, but were not tested for validity or reliability. At the conclusion of this study, the data suggested that though dance educators are being evaluated by educational leaders with some understand of the outcomes and standards of a dance classroom, the need for a working relationship between dance educators and educational leaders is important

The role of biofilms in Campylobacter jejuni survival in the food chain

Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial foodborne poisoning in the developed world. The impact of infection is mainly economic, however the disease can lead to severe post infection complications, such as Guillain–Barré syndrome. Despite the fastidious nature of C. jejuni, it is able to survive food chain transit. One survival mechanism proposed to aid in C. jejuni food chain survival is its formation of, or incorporation into, biofilms. Biofilms are defined as a surface attached microbial population, surrounded by a self-produced extracellular matrix. Previous work has shown that biofilm formation by C. jejuni is increased in food chain relevant conditions, but C. jejuni biofilms have received little attention compared to other foodborne pathogens. The work presented here investigated how biofilms may enable C. jejuni survival within the food chain. In order to achieve this aim, investigation was carried out into three complementary areas. Initial investigations showed that supplementation of medium with chicken juice increased C. jejuni biofilm formation, due to the chicken juice conditioning the surface and allowing easier attachment of C. jejuni. In order to distinguish between the biofilm population and surface attached particulates, a novel method of staining C. jejuni biofilms, using a metabolic formazan dye, was developed and optimised. As biofilm formation by C. jejuni is relatively poorly understood, a broad investigation was performed to increase understanding of C. jejuni biofilm formation and structure. Finally, the role of extracellular DNA within the extracellular matrix was investigated. The results presented here suggest that C. jejuni is able to utilise biofilm formation as a food chain survival mechanism. However biofilm persistence can be limited by enzymatic treatment of the biofilm and thorough cleaning of surfaces, limiting the potential for surface contamination

Health impacts of climate change in urban areas: a pathway to adaptation

Human health and well-being will be increasingly affected by climate change over the course of this century. Adaptation is a critical, yet highly complex challenge. This thesis develops a pathway for this challenge through the use of systems approaches within a Health Impact Assessment framework. Applied to the dual challenge of climate change and urbanisation in Perth, the research provides recommendations to create a healthier, more climate-resilient city for future generations

When the Balance Isn't Easy: A Case Study Exploring the Complications with Work-Life Balance Initiatives in the Australian Construction Industry

Studies of work and life balance often concentrate on the ways in which employees may require and use flexible work practices to cope with the demands of their other ‘non-work’ activities and responsibilities. This paper adds to our knowledge in this arena through presenting a case study of work-life balance. This case study focuses on managerial and employee issues in implementing organisational work life balance initiatives within the construction industry in Australia. For this case study, the workplace was an ‘alliance’ project, of four collaborating companies undertaking a large infrastructure project. The project management group determined that work-life balance was an important issue within the industry and consequently implemented a five-day instead of the industry standard six-day working week as a balance initiative for the workforce. A range of factors contributed to this five-day week initiative reverting to the original work schedule of a six-day working week. This paper explores these issues and analyses the competing priorities and demands of management in endeavouring to develop alternate strategies to maintain a positive work and life balance for employees. The analysis of this case suggests that management and employees were dedicated to improving work-life balance; however, a range of externalities resulted in not all initiatives being successful. Nevertheless, within the constrained choices, the management group instigated alternate initiatives