Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: September 2016

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Thursday, September 29, 2016

ERCIM News No. 107 Special theme: "Machine Learning"

Dear ERCIM News Reader,

ERCIM News No. 107 has just been published at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en107

This issue features :

- A Special Theme presenting a selection of articles about current trends and new paradigms in Machine Learning, coordinated by the guest editors Sander Bohte (CWI ) and Hung Son Nguyen (University of Warsaw).

- A Research and Society section dedicated to Open Access - Open Science, coordinated by Laurent Romary (Inria).

- A "Research and Innovation" section with news about research activities and innovative developments from European research institutions

This issue is also available for download in pdf and ePUB

Thank you for your interest in ERCIM News. Feel free to forward this message to others who might be interested.

Next issue: No. 108, January 2017 - Special Theme: "Computational Imaging"

Best regards,
Peter Kunz
ERCIM News editor in chief

Monday, September 26, 2016

Ponencia "La revolución de la emoción" | The Revolution of Emotion & Hodges' model





Below I have mapped some of the concepts discussed in the video to Hodges' model plus the 4Ps.

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
HUMANISTIC-------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group-population
emotion  uncertainty  identity
individual skills (inner tech)
emotional intelligence
fear-----terror
sadness    stress    anxiety
loneliness
person centered
communication    
love
PURPOSE
"HUMAN 

disease
technology      devices
experience - expertise
life  death
'an object' - 'meat'
anonomised - aggregated
waiting rooms
working / caring space
PROCESS - PROCEDURE(S)
TECHNOLOGY"
love
relationships    goodbyes
'life' : the way you/we live
patient-family
people centered
stories - narrative
PRACTICE
professionals
rules permissions
'restricted' spaces
accessibility
service centered
power
Hierarchy
(obstructive) 'distance' (protective)
POLICY

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Bedlam exhibition and Nijinsky's Mask, 1919

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group-population










It is still surprising how often you are led to wonder: 'Will the real Mr - Ms X, Y please stand up?' So many people are still reliant, dependent upon psychotropic medication to the extent that they too acknowledge that to a lesser or greater degree they do not know themselves. Ordinarily, we take for granted the various roles and personas, yes: the masks that we adopt unconsciously in the course of the day. Reducing this medication, assisting in the removal of the mask can be a great challenge especially in a community setting. When the combined services of primary care, community mental health team work with patients and carers this brings its own rewards. From behind the mask a new voice emerges: independence, understanding, motivation, spontaneity, tangible happiness - contentedness. ... Before that though we still need to maintain and teach the skills to really attend and listen, to see the person behind the mask...


Bedlam: the asylum and beyond


Image source: In the Frame for December 2013 Vaslav Nijinsky's 'The Mask'

My source: Wesseley, S. (2016). Inside Bedlam, England's first mental institution, The Times, Arts. 14 September, 8-9.

Saturday, September 10, 2016

8 Digital Skills to Teach our Children* - related to Hodges' model



individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group-population
digital literacy  

digital emotional intelligence

  digital identity

digital security


digital communication

digital use  


digital safety

  digital rights


* ... and many adults too.

My source: Original tweet by Dorlee Michaeli, @SWcareer

Image source and original article:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/06/8-digital-skills-we-must-teach-our-children

Thursday, September 08, 2016

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement

Dear Readers,

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement is delighted to announce the publication of its latest issue at https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our website to review articles and items of interest.

Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,

Margaret Malone
Managing Editor, Gateways
Margaret.Malone AT uts.edu.au

Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement
Vol 9, No 1 (2016)
Table of Contents
https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/issue/view/397

Research articles (Refereed)

The journey and destination need to be intentional: Perceptions of success in community-academic research partnerships (1–21)
Robin Lindquist-Grantz, Lisa M Vaughn

Two steps forward, one step back: Achievements and limitations of university-community partnerships in addressing neighbourhood socioeconomic disadvantage (22–40)
Deborah Warr, Richard Williams

Caught up in power: Exploring discursive frictions in community research (41–57)
Cindy Hanson, Adeyemi Ogunade

Supporting communities of practice: A reflection on the benefits and challenges facing communities of practice for research and engagement in nursing (58–73)
Maretha De Waal, Oumiki Khumisi

'Culture' as HIV prevention: Indigenous youth speak up! (74–88)
Ciann Wilson, Vanessa Oliver, Sarah Flicker, Native Youth Sexual Health Network, Tracey Prentice, Randy Jackson, June Larkin, Jean-Paul Restoule, Claudia Mitchell

Engaging youth in post-disaster research: Lessons learned from a creative methods approach (89–112)
Lori Peek, Jennifer Tobin-Gurley, Robin S Cox, Leila Scannell, Sarah Fletcher, Cheryl Heykoop

Impact of international humanitarian service-learning on emerging adult social competence: A mixed-methods evaluation (113–131)
Paul Schvaneveldt, Todd Spencer

Practice-based articles (Non-refereed)

Unusual conversations: A reflection on the mechanics of internationally engaged public scholarship (132–144)
Jonathan Damiani

Fundamental researcher attributes: Reflections on ways to facilitate participation in Community Psychology doctoral dissertation research (145–158)
Renato M Liboro, Robb Travers

Innovating for skills enhancement in agricultural sciences in Africa: The centrality of field attachment programs (159–171)
Anthony Egeru, Paul Nampala, Henry Massa-Makuma, Moses Osiru, Adipala Ekwamu

Mobilizing Minds: Integrated knowledge translation and youth engagement in the development of mental health information resources (172–185)
Christine A Garinger, Kristin A Reynolds, John R Walker, Emma Firsten-Kaufman, Alicia S Raimundo, Pauline C Fogarty, Mark W Leonhart, Mobilizing Minds Research Group
________________________________________________________________________
Paul Ashton, Marilyn Krogh, Margaret Malone, Phil Nyden and Pauline O'Loughlin
Editorial Committee Gateways

My source c/o Margaret Malone via LIVINGKNOWLEDGE-L AT LISTS.UCC.IE

Wednesday, September 07, 2016

Grid Design: The architecture of care? c/o Brinson (2007)

The context of Brinson's (2007) thesis is graphic design, but there are many insights, overlaps and references in a study that ...

"explores the logical integration of conceptual meaning into the grid structure" (p.61). 
 “All innovation and most design is the result of connections—the link between experience and action, between deductive logic and inductive insight, between the analysis of a problem and the verification of its solution”1 (p.2) 
“The important thing to remember is that while a grid can help to generate a sense of unity and continuity in a design, it is within itself creative. In the hands of unskilled designers, grids can become straightjackets that inhibit creative concepts.”4 (p.5)

 “Ostensibly, the best grids are based on a general evaluation of content and reflect the particular character and presentational requirements of that content.”78 (p.105)
individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group-population







While analysis is to the fore in the thesis there is less emphasis on synthesis amid talk of deconstruction. Hodges' model can (I believe) be used for conceptual analysis and synthesis. A tool to deconstruct, to identify the parts and integrate the whole. As a representational frame Hodges' model could also represent change through time.

Brinson, Valorie Michelle, "An evolution in grid structures: a study for conceptual grid structure design" (2007). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. Paper 14805.

Monday, September 05, 2016

Editorial: Assuring the Capture of Standardized Nursing Data... Ponte, Somerville & Adams (2016)

In their editorial Ponte, Somerville and Adams (2016) focus on the US nursing care situation and contrast with the UK experience from the outset:

As the U.S. health system moves toward value-based care, chief nursing officers (CNOs) are pressured as never before to demonstrate nursing’s contributions to improving the cost, quality, and efficiency of care, key elements of the value equation. The shift from fee-for-service to value-based care and reimbursement has been made possible through the implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), and the emergence of Big Data analytics, in which payers and healthcare organizations mine the streams of data produced by clinical and administrative systems to understand and evaluate care inputs, processes, and outcomes (Westra, Clancy, et al., 2015).
The contrast is implicit and is not the purpose of the editorial: Assuring the Capture of Standardized Nursing Data: A Call to Action for Chief Nursing Officers. From a still summery Lancashire the above really does seem a continent away, if not a world. It should not be this way. Questions of value for money, the quality of nursing care and outcomes are also central here and digital aspirations are ongoing: NHS Digital.

Perhaps Hodges' model lacks appeal not just because of its historical (mid-1980s) qualities, but a 4x4 checkbox appearance that seeks to standardize care concepts and the nurse's approach? Not only that but maybe the model dictates where they should be placed? The push for data to 'let the light in' and make nursing visible, can also seem a major, externally driven and intrusive distraction from nursing care. That is, doing the job, being a nurse, nursing delivery, caring ...

That Assuring in the title is important. It is the kernel of recursion, the crucial check that is governance and engaged management. Not remote via a screen - dashboard, but in-process - in-situ assuring that the nursing role can and is delivering. In the dash to data vision can become blurred. Socio-technical perspectives are skewed, what might be termed holistic bandwidth is constrained as per the system.
Ensuring that standardized, encoded nursing data are captured in EHRs is critical if nursing is to realize the potential of big data analytics. Having nursing data available for analysis will allow us to gain a better understanding of nursing practice, demonstrate nursing’s contributions to patient care and outcomes, and facilitate evidence-based practice and nursing research. Indeed, we will no longer be driving blind. Rather, we will be driving smart.
Somewhere in this big data lies person centered, holistic and integrated care. This needs to be transformed to self-care. Can these incremental positive changes be captured (once debated and defined)? Will nurses be empowered with access to this data: the big, little and what lies between? Where are the analysts? Who makes the decisions based on this data? Is transparency assured?

As technology advances we have much to do in the UK, lest we nurses find ourselves sat in what has suddenly become a self-driving vehicle that is bound who knows where....


Ponte, P. R., Somerville, J. G., & Adams, J. M. (2016). Assuring the Capture of Standardized Nursing Data: A Call to Action for Chief Nursing Officers. International Journal of Nursing Knowledge, 27(3), 127.

Friday, September 02, 2016

Book: SUPERHUMANS bio-enhancement

individual
|
INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic -------------------------------------------  mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
|
group-population

My source: July 9 2016, The Times