Hodges' model: in Frodge (2007) Perceptions of nursing and Midwestern Assoc. Degree Nursing program

Nineteen years after publication I have finally added Prof. Shannon Frodge's doctoral dissertation to the bibliography. Dated 2007, it is nice to fill a gap:

Frodge, S. C. (2007). Perceptions of nursing and of a Midwestern Associate Degree Nursing program (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses. (Order No. 1445113).

I cannot access a copy, but previous posts supplied the abstract:

Abstract

The current nursing shortage is complicated by the fact not enough students choose nursing to offset the number of nurses who are nearing retirement. This is distressing to the profession, and is of particular interest to nursing schools. This quantitative, descriptive correlational study examined the perceptions of 99 students in grades sixth through twelfth in a public Midwestern school system regarding nursing as a career choice, 41 current students in the local community college’s nursing program, and recruiting methods that would or did most influence them. The framework for the study is Brian Hodge's Health Career Model. Students were surveyed using a Likert scale tool with demographics and comments. Descriptive statistics included frequency tables, cross tabulations, chi squared, and confidence intervals. Comments were grouped for qualitative phenomenological purposes. Findings indicated statistically significant differences in perceptions of students based on sex and grade which could be used to enhance recruitment efforts. [my emphasis]

This was re-discovered reviewing ancient posts with broken links and a few 'hijacked' domains. Over 150 have been repaired, or deleted. 

No excuses here. Usually I am on the ball with news of a citation filling me with joy. I cannot find an email address for Prof. Frodge. I've contacted ProQuest for assistance. If can help with a copy, or email address please get in touch - 
h2cmng @ yahoo.co.uk. Many thanks.

Some details on research questions also posted: 
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2007/10/perceptions-of-nursing-and-of.html

3rd Value and Responsibility in AI Technologies Conference 18-20 April 2027

The Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Informatics and Applied Technology at Gonzaga University are running the third Value and Responsibility in AI Technologies conference, 18-20 April 2027. 

Our 2027 theme is Principles to Practice: how can we learn, teach, work, innovate, lead and live with AI in ways that protect human dignity, strengthen human agency, and help people and communities flourish. We call for proposals from faculty, researchers, educators, students, industry professionals, and community partners in every field, from technology and business to philosophy and education. 

Collaborative, cross-disciplinary proposals are especially encouraged. Every proposal must look at AI through a human-centered lens and address its impact on people and/or society. Technical work is encouraged when it shows who is affected, how, and why it matters. 

Suggested topics areas: 

Education and learning; design and technical practice; work, business, and the economy; philosophy, society and community. Formats you may participate in include: regular talk (15~20 min), lightning talk (3~5 min), poster, demo, breakout session (50-min), and half-day workshop. 

The program committee will review the submissions and work with the authors to finalize the program. 

Submit at https://forms.gle/iSwBm5zWB4oAKWqE8 with the following:

a proposal title; 
names, affiliations and emails for all presenters; 
a 250~300-word abstract including reference to human and societal impact; 
your preferred format(s). 

Proposals are reviewed for human-centered focus and societal impact (required), connection to the theme, clarity, practical value, and contribution to a diverse program. 

Proposals due: 15 December 2026. 
Decisions sent: 1 February 2027. 

Any queries please email fishera AT gonzaga.edu or informatics AT gonzaga.edu
 -- 
A.R.J. Fisher 
Department of Philosophy
Gonzaga University 
fishera AT gonzaga.edu

'Onwards and Sideways'

'Tony Evans is deputy headteacher of a primary school. Emma Dretzin is a musician and composer, and a single mother of two daughters.

Neither knows the other, until a startling encounter changes the course of their lives. On the same morning, they are both confronted with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease.

Onwards and Sideways is their story - a friendship which unfolds unexpectedly. A story of humour, courage, music, movement and the transformative power of human connection. Challenging assumptions, the film celebrates the capacity to find joy, freedom and hope, even in life's most difficult moments.'

https://www.onwardsandsideways.co.uk/movie/onwards-and-sideways/film-info#storyline

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The impact of a diagnosis: 'Parkinson's disease'	ONWARDS  S                 S  I                  I  D                D E                 E W               W A                A  Y                 Y  S                 S ONWARDS
Care in the community connection	policy Care provision - choices

There is probably another post on W2tQ related to Parkinson's disease. As a community mental health nurse I had a gentleman and his wife (also his carer) for many years. The challenges were many: he experienced psychotic side-effects, was often aggressive, and had several admissions to the psychiatric ward. With a consultant psychiatric who was ahead of their time, we tried to avoid those admissions, rationalise the medication. When care at home became really fraught, a formal admission followed.

Co-working with a social worker was invaluable. We made the observation that it was like being at a tennis match. We shared that with the couple, in the summer naturally, in one of many lighter moments. I'm sure we made a positive difference: keeping Mr X at home, while supporting Mrs X rather than prolonging her stress and sense of helplessness. A care package was regularly reviewed. This was at a time when social service offices were oft situated in smaller towns too. Not a bus ride away. Mental health review involving the family were also essential. With Mrs X having the support of adult children, she had an additional voice.

Parity of esteem matters here too.  

My source: BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour, 12th November 2026.

Previously: 'film' : 'Parkinson's'

MAE Conference Transitions: Perspectives on Changing Planetary and Care Frontiers

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the Call for Panels for the upcoming MAE Conference Transitions: Perspectives on Changing Planetary and Care Frontiers, which will take place 17-20 August 2027 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

We invite proposals for panels addressing the conference theme. We welcome contributions from scholars at all career stages and encourage interdisciplinary submissions across medical social sciences, humanities, and applied approaches.

The panel proposal should be no longer than 600 words and include a title and a short description of the panel.

Please submit your proposals by December 10th 2026.

Submission portal, as well as further information about the conference, submission guidelines, and important dates can be found at https://eventsignup.ku.dk/mae2027/information

We look forward to receiving your proposals and bringing together a diverse community of scholars for stimulating discussions and exchanges.

Please feel free to circulate this announcement among your colleagues and networks.

We are happy to answer any questions via the conference mailbox 
mae2027.copenhagen AT gmail.com

With best wishes,

Mette Bech Risør on behalf of the MAE Copenhagen Organizing Committee

Mette Bech Risør
Head of Section for General Practice
Professor, medical anthropologist.

University of Copenhagen
Department of Public Health
The Research Unit for General Practice & Section of General Practice
Center for Health and Society, Øster Farimagsgade 5
1353 Copenhagen K

DIR 93602164
mette.risoer AT sund.ku.dk

Previously: 'planetary' :  'anthropology' : 'models'

Why CBIO? A Census-Based, Impact-Oriented Approach to Community Health

The Census-Based, Impact-Oriented (CBIO) Approach is a practical, community-centered approach to improving health outcomes through systematic information about communities, evidence-based action, and measurement of results. 

This short introduction explains why the CBIO approach matters and how it can help communities and organizations move from identifying health needs to achieving measurable improvements in health. 

CBIO Initiatives for Global Health promotes and advances the CBIO Approach by providing training, technical assistance, research, and practical implementation tools. We support community-centered, evidence-based health initiatives, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, and seek to collaborate with governments, academic institutions, development partners, and local organizations. 

Learn more about CBIO Initiatives for Global Health: 
🌎 https://cbioinitiativesforglobalhealth.org/ 


My source:

Dear Peter,

In rural Kisii County, Kenya, a CBIO+ program cut under-five mortality by 80% and neonatal mortality by 78% between 2017 and 2024. Most of that decline came in the first three years. Would you like to see this sort of impact in the programs with which you work or that you support?

For more than four decades now, I have been working with Impact Global Health Alliance (IGHA, formerly Curamericas Global) on CBIO+, the Census-Based, Impact-Oriented Approach to helping communities improve their health. 

Please watch our short introductory video entitled “Why CBIO?” Then feel free to explore our new website which has a wealth of information about CBIO+. Our aim is to help you implement CBIO+, with mentoring from CBIO Initiatives for Global Health, or in partnership with IGHA.

We are convinced that this approach deserves wider recognition – especially now when global progress in health improvement is languishing and countries need to do more with less. Global health initiatives have spent billions fighting diseases. They have spent far less helping communities fight for their own health.

We believe that we need a stronger emphasis in global health on community-oriented public health, whose goal is to partner with communities to help them improve their health. The people themselves constitute our greatest untapped resource in global health, and we need new ways to work with communities to help them turn this potential into health gains.

Community-oriented public health is a much needed complement to vertical, disease-control programs (disease-oriented public health) and to health care delivery programs (services-oriented public health). We can think of them each forming a leg of a three-legged stool. Having a stronger leg for community-oriented public health will make the seat of the stool, the platform of public health, much stronger.

We hope you will find CBIO+ to be worthy of your attention and application anywhere in the world.

Watch “Why CBIO?” today: https://youtu.be/d8SEze-6gsY (8 mins)

Best wishes,

Henry--


Henry B. Perry, MD, PhD, MPH
Founder, CBIO Initiatives for Global Health
Co-Founder, Impact Global Health Alliance
hperry AT cbioinitiativesforglobalhealth.org

Senior Associate, Health Systems Program
Department of International Health
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

'PROTOCOL(s)' For a missed opportunity?

As ever, when in London doing the bookshops, the subtitle of Prof. Huberman's book 'Protocols - An Operating Manual for the Human Body' caught my eye. 

It was in the foyer of Foyles, so hard to miss. Especially as I'd just picked up Buckminster Fuller's, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth from 1969. There's been a slew of them since. 

When I saw the subtitle, the chip on my shoulder was activated. OK, so another contrib. to the operating manual genre. 'Human body' nailed what I saw as a mechanistic bias. 

But, even in the title, where would you place a protocol in Hodges' model?

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	PROTOCOLS: c/o Penguin

As is oft the case (not buying the book and reading it) a look in the index, revealed no mention of 'conceptual framework' or 'model'. A great shame and omission imho, surely an essential requirement to underpin, and act as a foundation for any manual worthy of the name? Metacognition is not listed, even as there are tools to assist in the challenges which our health presents. So too for reflection, and critical thinking. Again, not listed. I did not have much time, but cognitive behavioural therapy & cognitive skills are in there. The focus is behavioural. By all means, please correct me?

I asked Google; tried to access the index. No joy. I queried: 'what proportion of the book deals with the psychological, the mental?'

Approximately three-sevenths (or roughly 43%) of the core structure of Protocols deals directly with the psychological, cognitive, and mental side of human performance. [1]

While Dr. Huberman emphasizes that the mind and body are fundamentally linked through the nervous system, the book's contents are categorized into seven primary pillars. Three of those pillars focus explicitly on psychological state, focus, and mental growth: [1]

• Stress Control: Managing acute and chronic psychological stress through real-time nervous system resets.
• Focus, Motivation, and Learning: Rewiring cognitive attention, sustaining mental energy, and optimizing the brain for deep concentration.
• Personal Growth: Building long-term habits, shifting behavioral frameworks, and leveraging neuroplasticity. [1, 2, 3]

The remaining four sections focus primarily on environmental and physical baselines: Sleep, Exercise, Nutrition, and Light. However, Huberman's core philosophy is that these physical pillars serve as the direct biological foundation required to regulate your mental state. [1, 2]

As a nurse (still - just) I still worry, that once again the wellness industry continues to dilute medicine, nursing, healthcare as a discipline. In a sense though the wellness advocates are correct. If our initial frame of reference is prevention, health promotion, being and staying well then what should we expect!? We need to be wary of tech solutions, within the tools and 'AI slop'.

For an operating manual surely this warrants an addition or two - three in any 2nd edition?

I'm surprised Cornerstone Press did not see this as a publisher:

'a home for big ideas with practical applications. Publishing expert voices in areas including psychology and popular science, health and relationships, business and economics, our books help you build the foundations of your life – whether you’re looking to change your day-to-day patterns or understand the world in which they happen.' 

But, then oh hum!

My source: Foyles, Charing Cross Road

Previously: 'well-being' : 'metacognition'

Order theory - in Hodges' model?

Continuing to try and see Hodges' model as a mathematical object (yes, I clearly don't know), I'm revising the past (N) summer's draft. Rather embarrassingly, shared with a couple of people. In my defence it is a vanity project, a personal indulgence, to deal with the 'trauma' of my maths education and inadequacy as a child. So the draft is a brain dump, trying to use the literature in near darkness. The hope is there is a project here for others more skilled and versed in mathematics than I, who can ask the questions.

Many years ago I posted about binary classifiers, that is for human learning - not just machine. There was a post about a child's toy. I thought that Hodges' model was like a Sober toy; a flat one.

The basis of triage, is order. Fail in this you are not doing triage. This drives the categories of 'reason for referral', 'main problem'. It is not long until that main problem becomes: 'Patient's problem', 'Initially assessed'.

nLab suggests at least that order is deserving of attention:

• 1. Idea

Order theory, the study of orders, is one of the main branches of mathematics, but it often gets short shrift.

Government: policymakers & APPGs need Hodges' model

Press release Nov. 3

Child Trust Fund injustice to end under Government plans

Young people lacking the mental capacity to make financial decisions will finally have easier access to their Child Trust Funds. 

Young people lacking the mental capacity to make financial decisions will finally have easier access to their savings, ending a long-standing injustice that has created unnecessary barriers for families. 

Following years of campaigning and legal difficulties faced by families, new legislation will be introduced by the Government to allow simpler access to Child Trust Funds, replacing the complex and often costly Court of Protection process.  

The reforms are expected to allow parents and carers to go directly to Child Trust Fund providers to access savings, solving years of unnecessary anguish for an estimated 63,000 to 126,000 young adults. 

Child Trust Funds were introduced in 2005 to provide children a financial boost as they start adulthood, but the scheme made no provision for 18-year-olds who lacked the mental capacity to manage their finances without a straightforward way to access their savings.  

Campaigners, disability charities, and the financial services sector will help shape the new process, protecting young people while pulling down barriers that have frustrated families for years. 

Justice Minister, Jake Richards said: 

Young people who lack the mental capacity to make financial decisions should be able to access their savings as easily as possible – especially when this money was put aside by loved ones to help them take their first steps into adulthood. 

This is simply an injustice that we’re finally putting right and as campaigners have argued for years, change is long overdue. This legislation will ensure this group of young adults no longer face difficulty from accessing money that is rightfully theirs.

Continued ...

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Mental capacity Consent Disability - Learning Disability	Accessibility Childhood - Adulthood Processes - Systems
Families Social (in-)justice Activism	Child Trust Funds Policy making Policy

My source: BBC Radio 4 Today 0700-0900 7th Nov 2026

Previously: 'consent' : 'mental capacity' : 'APPG'