The Line(s)

Foresight, hindsight, sight itself and that illusory association with the line of time is a fascination for us all. No doubt, as a result of the hardwired analogue found in the lifeline and our ultimate fate. Hodges' model acknowledges all these lines; concrete and abstract. The work and health careers, an individual's education career (where accessible / permitted) now lifelong learning.

Abstract things seem tenuous, indistinct, maybe lost somewhere in theory. Concrete on the other hand, is physical, tangible. 

Hodges' model can cover paper with lines, two of them ideally. The model can then be applied in practice.

There is then an interplay between abstract and concrete; between which data, information and knowledge flows, uncertainty reduced. Scope and scale become clearer once assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation are concurrent.

This applies to all lines, if they are not destined to be covered in sand.

My source:  

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled, FTWeekend: 
https://ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-line/

 

See also: 'design' : 'architecture' : 'line'

Caring with Excellence, Care that Evolves: Filipinos in Care Anniversary Event 2026

Time & Location

17 Apr 2026, 14:00 – 23:00 BST

St Mary Abbots Centre, Vicarage Gate, London, W8 4HN

About the event

This engaging 2-panel session will delve into the inspiring journeys of Filipino nurses and nurse leaders who are making significant contributions in the social care sector. Participants will have the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts of challenges, triumphs, and the unique experiences that shape their careers. The session aims to highlight the vital role that Filipino nurses play in providing compassionate care and leadership in diverse settings.

Panel 1: Personal Journeys and Experiences of Award-Winning Filipinos

The first panel will feature a diverse group of nurses who will share their personal stories. Topics will include:

• Overcoming cultural and professional challenges
• Adapting to different healthcare environments
• Building resilience and community support

Panel 2: Transitioning to Social Care

The second panel will focus on the experiences of Filipino nurses who moved from the NHS to social care. Key discussions will revolve around:

• Developing skills in a care home setting
• Key tips for the career move
• Key learnings from the shift from acute to chronic care

Takeaways: A Practical Toolkit

Attendees will leave the session equipped with a practical toolkit designed to inspire and guide them in their own nursing careers. This toolkit will include:

• Resources for professional development
• Strategies for effective leadership in nursing
• Networking opportunities with fellow nurses and leaders

Join us for this enlightening session to celebrate the contributions of Filipino nurses in social care and to gain valuable insights that can enhance your own journey in the field. Sessions moderated by Filipinos in Care Founder Kier Dungo and Co-Founder Jay Trondillo.

Tickets and website: https://www.filipinosincare.org.uk/event-details/fic-anniversary-event

My source: RCN North West Multicultural Group

RCN Congress 2025 ii - Losing direct nursing skills

No longer an issue for me, but in the mix of careers: health, education, work - professional; employees often find that they are pulled away from what originally brought them to their chosen career. "I want to help people, care for them, make them better." Especially, if they are ambitious, seek better pay and prospects, for themselves and (a) their family. 

This was an issue and tension for discussion at the RCN Congress:

'Climbing the ladder often means leaving the “bedside”, this is something that can leave mixed emotions for the individual. As a result, we are losing years of clinical experience and expertise which could impact on the future training and on-the-job development for early career or inexperienced colleagues.

The secondary issue that arises with nurses leaving the bedside is skill decay, where a person loses the skills developed in the clinical area through lack of everyday practice. This is being increasingly acknowledged in health care literature (Maehle, 2017). However, the biggest barrier is the resulting lack of confidence in personal skills and ability, particularly where someone is now seen as a senior colleague by those at the bedside.' cont. ...

Discussion - Losing direct nursing skills

I didn't make notes but reflected on how your 'basic training' (for me ...) registered mental nurse (RMN) and state registered nurse (SRN) provides the foundation for professional (and lifelong?) learning? This is, after all, what continuing professional development and post-registration refer to. I did realise that in returning to mental health nursing after qualifying as a SRN, I would surrender much learning - instead of consolidating.

Lecture 101, sets in train the scope of your theory and practice. This is why, and where I see Hodges' model having a role at this point in our professional education, whatever the discipline, or profession. Congress included a resolution for debate: Physician associates. 

We really do need to get this right. Get it wrong, and the quality of care and safety of the public are threatened. If existing standards and professional relationships are perturbed, the effects can be long-lasting and (grossly) injurious. Especially at a time of increasing demographic pressures globally for health systems and services.

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1. Is the divide represented by parity of esteem in healthcare MIND :: BODY associated with the fact that in mental illness patients do not ordinarily need to be nursed, cared for in bed?	png image from pngtree.com
2. But, wait! What does history, medical sociology have to say?	3. Is the 'bed' the signifier of instititionalised care? It appears to be. The pejorative term 'big bins' seems to epitomise the mechanisation of care. In prisons do they throw away the key?

Previously: 'RCN' : 'skills' : 'beds'.

Also at Congress was the RCN Northwest Multicultural Group, which may be of interest if you are UK based (and not just in the NW). The following is edited from an email ...

Dear All,

I would like to congratulate everyone for an amazing Congress 2025 and take this opportunity to welcome the new members. It was really lovely to meet all of you in person.

Please see below the link to the webpage of multicultural group:

https://www.rcn.org.uk/northwest/Get-Involved/NW-Multicultural-Group

I will be sharing the details of the next meeting and other information via the group and email.

Kind regards,

Olanike Babalola (She/Her/Hers)
Chair/Cofounder RCN Northwest Multicultural Group
Email: olanike.babalola AT reps.rcn.org.uk

RCN Congress 2025 Liverpool i

... the twists and folds of debates

Repeating myself (again) but worthwhile I think(?), the past week brought my second RCN Congress. If you are new student nurse, international (Std) nurse, or nursing support worker and not engaged with a professional body, or union; do try to get involved. Don't leave it as long as I have (I joined a union as a nursing assistant). By way of a small excuse, listening this week it seems I am not the only one to leave it 'late'. Based in Liverpool (again after 2019) means there's a torrent of potential content. So where am I/We? By their nature all the debates are worthy. I have picked a few:

Discussion - Celebrating a nursing career

You can read above the main focus for the discussion. For me it prompted the following (no doubt - familiar)  reflections ...

The number of potential careers in health and social care is amazing:

350 careers. One NHS.

Your future.

Not only what the NHS (for training, education) can 'offer', but within that the number of nursing roles and specialities. The discussion inevitably drew the 'longevity' card. Students do pick on the temperature of their chosen community of practice. They recognise when they are surrounded (not literally!) by colleagues who have careers numbered in the several decades. But like a card the side that presents the occupational safe harbour from the threat posed by artificial intelligence, is countered by the seemingly relentless pressures imposed on nursing staff. The debates also revealed the pressure and negative impact of 'lived' work experiences for students and newly qualified nurses. I remember in the late 1970s early 1980s student nurses being counted as 'staff'. Have we really not progressed? I wrote 'offer' above because many students cannot get jobs once they have qualified. Not the best start to a shiny career. Having to fold, as they qualify.

Speaking of "career", can we please twist that? There is a great deal of talk - soul searching - about how on earth the (so-called) health service truly transforms itself to be health promoting and preventive. In the NHS's history perhaps there was a window of opportunity to begin in the late 1960s. Not so much a 'moonshot' as a healthshot. Now with the demographics that potential is being lost, unless this is positive way that AI can make up the shortfall? Alternately, nursing can utilise the health career, as in Hodges' model which are invariably impacted by an individual's life chances. As such there may be signs and signatures in the person's familial background? We can imagine a timeline composed of Hodges' model as 2x2 frames through a person's life, even prior to their conception and their legacy. 

More to follow . . .

Previously: 'RCN' : 'nursing' : 'power'

Please pardon the 'gambling' analogies, but we are literally asking students to gamble with their careers, financial status and well-being (life chances - no less). Should they be lost to the service, you can't blame young people. They know the logic of care, also known as demographics. They can do the maths? So who is it who can't do basic arithmetic?

Save Cardiff University School of Nursing - Sign the Petition

Cardiff University have announced that the School of Nursing is set to close with cuts to staffing because of a funding shortfall. 

We condemn this action and urge the university to find another solution that does not involve closing the School of Nursing. 

This awful decision will have a direct impact on the number of nurses available to work in health boards across the country . At a time where there is a significant number of nursing vacancies within the NHS this action will undermine an already depleted workforce. 

With well over a 1,000 students within the department, Cardiff University School of Nursing contributes a very important number of nurses which are employed within the NHS each year. 

The school of nursing is ranked 1st in Wales and is an centre of excellence. It is a dynamic, innovative and forward looking school. They are recognised for their excellence in learning, teaching and research. They pride themselves on pursuing research of the highest quality, and are one of the leading healthcare departments in the UK.

As well as this, the staff  work incredibly hard, have invaluable diverse expertise and put their hearts and souls into making the school a vibrant and welcoming place. The nursing department is full of warm, intelligent, passionate people with a wealth of knowledge, who are at danger of losing their livelihoods. We stand in solidarity with the university staff affected by this decision. 

Please sign this petition in the hope that Cardiff University reconsider its decision to close the School of Nursing. 

https://t.co/HU5Cyn8j8p

QR code also available.

Previous posts: 

Nursing, history and (future) travels

Wales

It would be marvellous to be able to deliver a lecture on Hodges' model to new nursing course entrants. Vital though to secure the future of all.

Variable Hours Tutor: Take II

Hello? Is anyone there? 'The Homeless Mind'

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'Put differently, the componentiality of the cognitive style pertaining to technological production extends to identity. Again, a specific kind of double consciousness develops. In this case the dichotomy is between concrete identity and anonymous identity. The individual now becomes capable of experiencing himself in a double way: as a unique individual rich in concrete qualities and as an anonymous functionary. This dichotomization in the subjective experience of identity makes it possible for the individual to establish subjective distance vis-à-vis certain features of this identity.9  For example, the individual will now experience that portion of his identity that contains his anonymization as a 'worker' as being 'less real' than his identity as a private person or family man. Since each portion of identity relates to specific roles, it now becomes possible for the individual to perform some of these roles 'tongue in cheek'. The componentiality of identity, as the componentiality of social relations, makes possible an 'engineering' practice. This time what is involved is the 'engineering' of one's own self. Those aspects of identity that a defined as 'more real' must be protected against threats coming from the 'less real' components of identity.' p.37-38.

The homeless mind: Modernization and consciousness Helpful reference to ideas of multi-relational synchronization and institutional vectors and how our mind's became homeless. Also encouraging, even though 'historic', discussion on life plans and life planning.

'A basic presupposition is that life careers are not firmly fixed but are at least relatively open. Put simply the individual is faced with a number of alternative careers, especially in his " younger years, and therefore must make decisions about these available options. It is possible for the individual to imagine, himself as having different biographies. This possibility has both positive and negative consequences for the emotional economy of the individual. Positively, it may give him a feeling of frees dom to shape at least certain parts of his life. Negatively, it increases the likelihood of frustration regarding specific careers One is, after all, less likely to resign oneself to a particular situation if one believes that other situations are, in principle, possible.' p.67. 'Implicit in this scale of probabilities is a general 'sociology', on whatever level of theoretical sophistication. The individual has a `map of society' within which he can locate and project himself in terms of both past biographical recollection and future projects. The individual's life is perceived as a trajectory across this 'map'. There is also a large body of factual knowledge, most of which is 'weighted' in terms of the individual's life plans. Thus if a particular career appears to the individual as a realistically plausible project, he will have more factual knowledge about it than about a career in which he can participate only in pragmatically irrelevant fantasy. In other words, a good deal of background knowledge is related to 'anticipatory socialization'. p.68. 'However vaguely this may be defined, there is the underlying concept of life plan, both for the individuals and for the a family unit. This life plan is the totalization of all the relevant timetables, their grand sum and their integrative meaning In modern society, such life planning has become a value in itself. Its absence is commonly an occasion for reproach. The family unit thus operates as a life-planning workshop.' p.69.

'There is a general expectation of justice. It is expected that everyone in the relevant category - as, for example, those en-titled by law to a passport - will receive equal treatment. It is, of course, understood that certain persons may be excluded from this relevant category - for example, resident aliens or convicted criminals. It is also understood that the bureaucratic procedures may codify certain preferences, for example, in favour of diplomats or other people travelling on urgent government business. Once the categorial system has been established, however, the presumption of equality holds within each category. In the most general way, bureaucracy is expected to conform to the Roman principle suum cuique. An implication of this is that there will be no favouritism or any other intrusion of personal bias in the bureaucrat's handling of each client's case. The bureaucrat is expected to handle every case sine ira et studio. In other words, there is the general expectation that bureaucracy will operate impersonally and with 'affective neutrality'.2 These considerations bring us to an important point: unlike anything discussed in the preceding chapter, the cognitive style of bureaucracy contains a moral quality, not just as a limiting factor (after all, there are also moral assumptions about technological production - for example, that no one will be killed in the course of it), but as an intrinsic part of its own structure of consciousness. The source for this moral element is probably to be sought in the primary social location of bureaucracy in the political sphere.' pp.52-53.

Berger, P. L., Berger, B., & Kellner, H. (1973). The homeless mind: Modernization and consciousness. Penguin. 

Cover image: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3368465-the-homeless-mind

⁹ This is an amplification, by way of phenomenological description, of what Erving Goffman has called 'role distance'.

² This term was coined by Talcott Parsons.

See also: 'homeless'

The 'quantum ballerina' - Dr Merritt Moore

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"Her life to date reads like something dreamt up during a Disney story conference: pretty American teen fulfils a life-long dream of a career in quantum physics at both Harvard and Oxford. And the fantasy cash register goes right on ringing because our heroine has not one career, but two. Between all-night stints in the lab she leads a double life as a professional ballet dancer. At this point one the grown-ups in our imaginary brainstorm might lean in and suggest that maybe the two-career thing was a mite, er, far-fetched? But Dr Merritt Moore, quantum physicist and alumna of four major-league ballet companies (Zurich, Boston, Norwegian, and English National), is living proof that this crazy scenario can be lived in real time by anyone with the ability to devote themselves body and soul to the dreams that devour them." p.12.

Skjalg Bøhmer Vold, Courtesy Merritt Moore

Dr Merritt Moore

Levene, L. (2021) The 'quantum ballerina' and her robot pas de deux", FTWeekend, Life&Arts, 27-28 March, p.12.

See also:
https://pointemagazine.com/merritt-moore-ballet/

Previously:
https://hodges-model.blogspot.com/2021/12/raymonda-ballet.html

Ability Today's Accessible Online Dip. in Journalism - Launches Next Course

Hello  Ability Today's ADJ Launches Next Diploma Course I hope this email finds you well. We're really excited to announce the doors for our Academy for Disabled Journalists (ADJ) Diploma Course in partnership with the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) are now open for disabled individuals for the third year. This initiative aims to break down barriers in the media industry and make journalism more inclusive. We are offering accessible online classes, featuring a wide range of topics such as reporting, writing, editing, and multimedia journalism, all while accommodating the unique needs and challenges faced by disabled students. WE NEED YOUR HELP TO SPREAD OUR MESSAGE TO AS MANY DISABLED INDIVIDUALS AS POSSIBLE. Please access our press release by clicking the button below 👇🏼

Get the press release here

Would you please share this with your network to help us reach as many potential students who we can support on their journey into journalism? We also welcome any further involvement you may wish to have in this program, such as offering mentorship, resources, or scholarships. Should you have any questions or require additional information, please don't hesitate to contact me directly at grant AT abilitytoday.com. Here is a link to our academy page with a short promotional video and further details: abilitytoday.com/diploma-in-journalism/ twitter.com/ADJnews/status/ Best Grant

STEM Women: Dame Clare Marx [RIP]

Pablo Picasso. Science and Charity. Barcelona, [March-April of] 1897. Oil on canvas 197 x 249.5 cm.
Museu Picasso, Barcelona. Donation Pablo Picasso, 1970. MPB 110.046. Museu Picasso, Barcelona.
Fotografía, Miquel Coll © Sucesión Pablo Picasso, VEGAP, Madrid 2020

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Clare  intelligence ...	physical contact, touch ... good surgical hands ...
Marx ... ability to talk to patients	Dame

Dame Clare Marx "First woman to be elected president of the Royal College of Surgeons who sought to root out sexism and expand surgical training ... A charismatic colleague taught her the three qualities of a successful surgeon: intelligence, good surgical hands and an ability to talk to patients."

"Marx said Picasso's Science and Charity emphasises
'the importance of physical contact' between doctor and patient."

Register, Obituaries, The Times, November 30, 2022, p.53.

See also: 'Arts'

Sept 2022: 'An introduction to evidence-based health care'

Are you aged 16-18 years, based in the UK or Ireland, and interested in studying a #healthcare-related subject at university?

Sign up here https://t.co/f6gSMgRtYa for 'An introduction to evidence-based health care', a free webinar we're hosting alongside @CochraneIreland pic.twitter.com/r7Kj5MbVZO

— Cochrane UK (@CochraneUK) July 14, 2022

Students 16-18 years old.

School leavers

A career in health care

'Health Career' - 'Life Chances'

URGENT: Clinical Academic Internship Programme

Dear colleagues,

Please could you circulate this opportunity to appropriate networks.  Many thanks,

***Closing date for applications: 5pm on Monday 6th December 2021.

Dear colleagues,

Hosted by Sheffield Hallam University on behalf of Health Education England (NE&Yorks), the NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Research Internship programme (pre masters) is now open for applications. 

Please could you cascade this opportunity to your networks. A summary of the scheme is provided below, but please visit the website for further information: 

https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/options/health-and-social-care/integrated-clinical-academic-programme-internship-scheme

Integrated Clinical Academic Programme Internship Scheme | Sheffield Hallam University Sheffield Hallam University are proud to co-ordinate the Integrated Clinical Academic Programme Internship Scheme across the North East and Yorkshire region of Health Education England. www.shu.ac.uk

About the Internship opportunity

The Internship is the foundation programme of the NIHR/HEE Integrated Clinical Academic career development pathway. This cohort will commence on 26th January 2022 and complete in October 2022, and is open to non-medical clinical staff employed by a NHS organisation in the North East and Yorkshire regions of Health Education England. 

It provides a range of on campus and online teaching sessions combined with the practical skills to undertake a research project supported by an expert clinical academic supervisor.  The key components to the internship programme are:

• a Clinical Academic Research Experience supported by supervision and research mentorship for 30 days.
• an Educational Learning Package comprising of 2 days face to face learning and 4 half days of online teaching.

Funding has been secured to support a small cohort in 2022 and the employers of successful applicants will receive £7500 for back-fill and to support research expenses. The employing organisations of the clinical mentors will receive £1000 to support their costs.  

Full details of the programme and the eligibility criteria can be found at https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/options/health-and-social-care/integrated-clinical-academic-programme-internship-scheme

Please note the tight deadline (1st December). For any queries please contact the programme lead Prof Julie Nightingale (J.Nightingale AT shu.ac.uk)

Best Wishes 

Prof Julie Nightingale, PFHEA, PhD, MSc, DCR(R), Professor of Diagnostic Imaging Education / Editor-in-Chief Radiography journal, Interim Head of Research (Dept of Allied Health Professions)
Robert Winston Building, Collegiate Campus, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, S10 2BP

My source: Tony Roberts, SHU.

c/o WHO: Opportunity for recent graduates for LDCs

Appealing to the librarian network to share this great WHO opportunity for recent graduates for LDCs

Dear Colleagues,

This may seem like an odd request but I am counting on you as the global health community who sometimes are the world’s best knowledge connectors. As many of you work with recent graduates who come from varied backgrounds, I would like to make you aware of the WHO’s young professionals (YPs) programme for young professionals (YPs) from Least Developed Countries (LDCs) https://www.un.org/development/desa/dpad/wp-content/uploads/sites/45/publication/ldc_list.pdf which aims to engage them in WHO’s work and build their capacity in key public health areas of particular relevance for their countries.

The vacancies of the first cohort are currently open for application until 6 December 2021. The vacancies can be found here:

https://careers.who.int/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl (please type “YPP” in the key word search to take you directly to the vacancies)

If you know someone who is 35 years old or younger and comes from a Least Developed Country, please ask them to check out WHO’s Young Professionals Programme! During your career, you may have come across some exceptional students from LDC locations who you feel worthy of an opportunity to make a big impact in the global health arena. If you know of anyone, please share this opportunity with them.

I have done this in the past and my colleagues in WHO HR saw star candidates results from the public health networking that got this message out to ideal candidates and they would like to see that success again. For some of you I know this will be a golden opportunity.

If you have any concerns about this posting, please let me know. For potential candidates, please direct them to visit the WHO website above.

Many Many Thanks to you all.

Tomas ALLEN
Professional email allent AT who.int
WHO Library
https://www.who.int/library

WHO COVID Database
https://search.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov/

HIFA profile: Tomas Allen is a librarian for the World Health Organization. 

Professional interests: Public Health. tomas.allen.who AT gmail.com

My source: HIFA

Petition "Protect the title Nurse in UK law"

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	"The term nurse can be used by anyone in the UK. They can use this term to offer professional advice and services even if they have no nursing qualifications, experience or have been struck off a professional register." More details

My source (and signed):

Anyone in the UK can call themselves a nurse. Even if they have no nursing qualifications or experience. They can even call themselves a nurse if they have been struck off. This is a #PatientSafety issue
If you are concerned too please sign #ProtectNurse https://t.co/FD9MS1JZpu

— Prof Alison Leary 💙 (@alisonleary1) June 15, 2021

Extraordinary People (2020)

 

the connor brothers

Extraordinary People, 2020

£120.00 

SOLD OUT

giclee print with silkscreen varnish 

41.5 x 29 cm unframed 

Edition of 300, signed and numbered 

Extraordinary People is an edition of 300 signed and numbered giclee prints measuring 41.5 cm x 29 cm and is sold unframed. All profits from the sale of this edition will be donated to the NHS Covid- 19 Urgent Appeal which supports NHS staff and volunteers caring for COVID-19 patients . The print is priced at £120 plus shipping and is available now. Due to the current pandemic we do not expect to be able to deliver this print until September 2020.

Like everyone else we are extremely grateful for the tireless work being done by our extraordinary NHS staff in near impossible circumstances. We owe them a collective debt we will never fully be able to repay. We'd like to offer our deepest thanks to each and every one of you.

giclee print with silkscreen varnish 

41.5 x 29 cm unframed 

Edition of 300, signed and numbered

http://www.theconnorbrothers.com/shop/extraordinary-people 

See also:

Pay "Nurse Kathy" ?

"Blind to the Big Picture" and Parity of Esteem 

My source:

The art world is back in business, MoneyWeek, 15 May 2020. Issue 999, p.35.

Bourdieu*: habitus, field, horizons and careers

"For Bourdieu, structure is not only objective in a Levi-Straussian sense. 

Structures can also be highly subjective." p.13.

 

"In one sense, habitus is social inheritance ... but it also implies habit, or unthinking-ness in actions, and 'disposition'. Some dispositions are transferable; fort example, a practical taxonomy can be utilized to find relevance in a new situation." p.14

 

"If habitus brings into focus the subjective end of the equation, field focuses on the objective:" p.15.

"Field is therefore a structured system of social relations at a micro and macro level." p.16.

 

"Education is a field, made up of identifiable interconnecting relations." p.20.

 

"Young people make career decisions within what we refer to as horizons for action. The horizons are the perspectives on and possibilities for action given in any field or intersection of fields." p.97.

 

 

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Grenfell, M., James, D. (1998) Bourdieu and Education: Acts of Practical Theory. London: Falmer Press.

Career progression: Moving beyond Bourdieu pp.100-103.

and Chapter 9, Theory as Method pp.152-178. diagrams. 

The 4P's in Hodges' model

PURPOSE	PROCESS
PRACTICE*	POLICY

 

Always conscious of how Hodges' model, like many other 'models' is an idealisation. As such we routinely refer to 'social action', 'political process' and 'social process'. 

I have, I suppose, allocated the four P's to the respective domains on a primary context - primary domain basis.^ So 'process' as per time, events, sequence, algorithm, logic, cause-effect.

^first come, first served?

Mirror 4: 'Health Career' = life chances

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Zhang Hui, Just Like in the Mirror 2, 2018. Oil on canvas, 120.5 x 80 cm.	...

Meditations in an Emergency
May 21–August 30, 2020
UCCA

My source:

Dally, J. (2020) The art world gets back to business. Life&Arts, FTWeekend, 23-24 May, p.11.

Image source:
https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/329368/meditations-in-an-emergency/

A free online-learning opportunity for those interested in Implementation Science

INSPIRING CHANGE

Open for enrollment March 9 to May 18, 2020

A FREE mini-course providing a high level overview on how to create impact with evidence-based implementation

This mini-course will help you:

• Understand what evidence-based implementation is and how to proactively plan for change.
• Discover how process models, theories, and frameworks can be the backbone of your change plan.
• Be inspired to use behavior change theory.
• Be more purposeful with your time, by addressing high-priority areas and anticipating resistance to change.
• Learn simple tips and tricks that can set you up for success.

Cost: FREE

Time to complete: It takes about 1.5 hours to complete the videos and activities.

Available: Enrollment open twice a year (from March to May; and from September to October)


My source:
Julia E. Moore, Ph.D.
Senior Director
647-390-1929
thecenterforimplementation.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/julia-e-moore/

Follow us on Twitter: @TCI_ca

We urgently need funding to continue our work in 2020. Support the HIFA Appeal: www.hifa.org/appeal

To send a message to HIFA simply send an email to: hifa AT hifaforums.org

HIFA: Healthcare Information For All: www.hifa.org

n.b. My revalidation is due and in (hopeful) preparation for a further three years 2020-2023 I will apply for this myself.

Looking for a Career in Finance? Why limit yourself...

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Know your patient	Know your patient
Know your patient and carer	Know your clients... and your patient

By knowing them you can help them to know themselves.

From self-knowledge to self-care when possible.

"Dual Legacies of a Health Career and a Baton to Match" BMJ Evidence Based Nursing Blog

Approached through twitter I was invited to write a blog post on a mental health nursing related topic of my choice. The final text manages to reflect the time of year, the time of my career, student's careers and the health career.

There is of course a great deal of other very informative content.


BMJ Evidence Based Nursing blog post

Twitter: EBNursingBMJ

Thanks to Gary Mitchell, Associate Editor.

Book: The Silo Effect

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The Silo Effect Image: Amazon.com	What are (or will be) the legacy issues that permeate your career*?
Integrated care?

We would never want 'parity of esteem' to mean 'parity of silo': would we?

*Assuming a 'career' continues to involve some sense of longevity (in healthcare 38 years)?

Related links:
Simon & Schuster: The Silo Effect
Financial Review: Why the silo effect makes us stupid

My source: Tett, G. (2015) Go Mingle, Have Fun. FT Weekend. Magazine, 22-23 August, pp. 30-33.