'Moved to Care' amid the Boxes - RCN

A Balikbayan Box for Nursing: artists and writers in residence

'Our new Arts Council National Lottery funded project takes the Filipino custom of the Balikbayan Box as its central theme, inspired by Romalyn Ante's poem Notes Inside a Balikbayan Box. The Balikbayan Box is a long-standing Filipino cultural practice through which we are exploring the spirit of nursing across borders and boundaries. 

Visit our exhibition to explore the installation ‘Inside Home’ by Haleema Aziz and meet our writers in residence – Romalyn Ante, Jennifer Wong and Christie Watson – to explore the art of nursing with a difference.

Our writers will each be running a writing workshop for a different audience to help them engage with the exhibition themes, and develop their own writing skills: refugees, schoolchildren and young adults.

Writing residencies run in the RCN Library and Museum (20 Cavendish Square) from April – June 2026. Find our what our writers have been working on at this public celebration of art and migration panel event in July.

Our writers will be based in the Moved to Care exhibition space in the England Library from 11am-4pm during their residency week. Anybody can drop in and chat to them between 3-4pm, or if you're a member you can book a free half-hour 121 slot. Discuss your own writing, ask questions about publication or the role of art and creativity in nursing with our writers in residence.'

Previously: 'box' : 'creativity' 

My source RCN Congress 2026

Politicians! Please leave it to the Public ...

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'Kick' - a verb, more often it seems, a noun.	Health and Social Care?
Gent kicking a can Wall poster/photo Corfu Town	... to kick the can down the road!

Frayn's - shared 'Home Address'

Frequently I've made the point that 'person-centred' means placing the individual, patient, carer ... whatever the context, at the centre of Hodges' model. At the same time this is of course an idealisation:

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What is your 'home' address?

'Science, it turns out, is in this respect simply an extension of all the other means we have found of representing the world. As with pictures and narratives, the world is unimaginable without the focus of a viewpoint. To understand the world in any way whatsoever scientifically, historically, artistically, anecdotally, imaginatively we find ourselves compelled to assume a potential point of convergence from which everything is  viewed, measured, and recounted. About the entity that defines this point we know only that it is by definition invisible to us. And since the instruments of science, of logic and mathematics, and of art, are all products of this invisible entity, they will not serve to represent or explain it to us. Anything in the world, or out of it, can be perceived or thought about, or both, and represented in our various codes. The only thing that systematically eludes us, whichever way we turn, is the something upon which everything else depends. The conscious subject that gives meaning to the objective universe cannot give meaning to itself. Without it nothing can be understood; about it nothing can be said.  'The point of convergence . . .' And already we've gone wrong. The self isn't a point, in any remotely geometrical sense, but a complex organisation; and the consciousness that it generates, and by which it is animated, is a complex phenomenon.' pp.401-402. (my emphasis)

Frayn, Michael (2006). The human touch: our part in the creation of a universe. 'Home Address', Chapter 5. London: Faber & Faber. 

A final post from my paperback copy, next - off to a good secondhand home. Previously: 'Frayn'.

British Computer Society: Real AI 2024 -::- AI for One Health and Planetary Health

In July I posted news of this month's Real AI event 27th September. Plans are in place to attend.

In November, London beckons again:

AI for One Health and Planetary Health: Where Are We?

Friday November 8th 2024

Even as I look forward to September's trip; I'm pinching myself. 

Following a BCS event last year, Hodges' model has been recognised. A video chat and many email exchanges has revealed there is a model possessed with the necessary holistic bandwidth. Hodges' model has the conceptual scope to encompass intelligence(s), One Health and planetary health. 

This also fits with current reading - interrupted by Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology (£2.00) - with posts to follow that will also inform November's co-presentation.

More to follow and clearly I have learned a great deal from engaging with the BCS. While my affiliate  membership has lapsed now, since the early 1990s the Society's publications, specialist groups: medical informatics, nursing, methods, security, expert systems, and now AI have proved well worth getting involved!

I am also hoping for some part-time tutoring at Bolton University in the new academic year.

A Workforce Strategy for Adult Social Care in England

"For the first time ever, the adult social care sector has come together, led by Skills for Care, to develop the Workforce Strategy it needs. Adult social care needs a workforce strategy to ensure we have enough of the right people with the right skills to provide the best possible care and support for the people who draw on it. 

Development of this vital Strategy has been truly collaborative and it could not have been developed without the expertise, time and commitment of many stakeholders."

Estimated number of adult social care filled posts by individual job roles

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Job satisfaction Personalisation - Belongings Motivation Attitudes, Opportunities, Incentives Access to Training	Activities, Reablement Arts, Dance, Music Dental and other services Systems view - Demographics Collaboration / Liaison
Social Care: At home & residential care Job status Local community, schools Funding of Social Care Integrated & Person-centred Care	Workforce strategy Pay - terms and conditions Government policy Workforce recruitment & retention: National - International

Source: Email - Skills for Care and BBC Radio 4 Today.

'Earthrise' c/o Bill Anders RIP

Earthrise in 4K

"In December of 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 became the first people to leave our home planet and travel to another body in space. But as crew members Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders all later recalled, the most important thing they discovered was Earth." 

See also:

Earthrise: The Story of the Photo that Changed the World | Short Film Showcase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsShNeDvccc

Thank you Bill and all the Apollo team and subsequent space faring families across the Home planet.

P.S. I'll leave it to you to relate the significance of Apollo 8's 'Earthrise' to Hodges' model.

COP 28: The water runs deep and broad - Solastalgia for all?

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climate anxiety eco grief ... as yet unforeseen impacts ... [personal and collective]

Raise A Paddle © Fenton Lutunatabua / 350.org

Underwater Cabinet Meeting in the Maldives

political malaise? "'Solastalgia' was first coined by the philosopher Glenn Albrecht almost two decades ago; it is a blend of the Latin word "solacium" (comfort) and the Greek root "-algia" (pain or grief). Solastalgia, argued Albrecht, was a way to convey the idea of distress caused by irreversible environmental transformation. It is 'the homesickness we feel while still at home', he writes." Where exactly do politicians and capitalists 'live'?

Frankopan, P., How to avert an 'eco grief' epidemic, The Daily Telegraph, 12 August 2023, pp.6-7.

Maldives image c/o:
https://sos.noaa.gov/education/phenomenon-based-learning/underwater-cabinet-meeting/

Raise A Paddle c/o NMS:

https://media.nms.ac.uk/resources/raise-a-paddle-fenton-lutunatabua-350-org

The Architecture of Care: Emergency shelters

 

The emergency shelters will last for at least 20 years.
Copyright Chiara Becattini

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mental health / illness psychic trauma sense of security sense of (new?) place meaning: temporary - permanent?	earthquakes, natural disasters emergencies sustainable shelter Refugee shelter - design (to last 20 years, not disposable, 'C'-footprint) 2.5 million homeless Turkey  Enforced displacement
Refugees Shelter - Hope - HOME Dignity	Forced displacement war, conflict meaning: temporary - permanent? UN statistics 17 years = temporary?

Essential Homes Research Project
Giardini Marineressa, Venice, Italy. 2022 - ongoing

"An increasing number of communities are suffering the consequences of natural disasters, wars or other humanitarian crisis, forcing them to leave their homes and countries to stay in refugee camps."

My source: Heathcote, E. (2023) Norman Foster tackles the emergency shelter. FT Weekend, Venice Biennale. 20-21 May. p.5

 See also: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/05/24/norman-foster-designs-forward-thinking-emergency-shelter-at-venice-biennale

Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity

“Race matters in England. So too does class. So too does voice.”


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Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity	Race Class Voice
Race Class Voice	Voice Class Race

Aladesuyi, O. (2021) A map of pain and privilege. Life&Arts. FTWeekend. 6-7 March 2021. p.10.

 

Owusu, N. (2021) Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity. London: Sceptre.

See also:

https://mixedracestudies.org/?p=60498

https://gal-dem.com/nadia-owusu-aftershocks-extract/
(site available but now closed).

Yes, size matters

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	Hammond, G. 'The mini market'. House&Home, City Living Special, FTWeekend, 4-5 May 2019, pp.8-9. https://www.ft.com/content/03a9343e-6b35-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d

This morning I shared three slides with the PAMHOP research team and greatly appreciate the opportunity to present and join their meeting:

Physical and Mental Health of Older Prisoners (PAMHOP)

As I spoke of considering the environment and the carceral context across the domains of the model, I recalled another piece of paper.

The image above is from FTWeekend in 2019.

In prison of course, while the physical environment is the intended constraint, the model also invites consideration of the psychological, social, political environments and added here - the spiritual.

Since 2019 and post-COVID, the change in how we regard and value the spaces we inhabit - voluntarily or otherwise.

Hammond, G. 'The mini market'. House&Home, City Living Special, FTWeekend, 4-5 May 2019, pp.8-9. https://www.ft.com/content/03a9343e-6b35-11e9-80c7-60ee53e6681d

The image above was copied from FTWeekend and pasted into a new image and saved from avif format to .jpg.

 

Paper: c/o Rabiah-Mohammed et al. - Syrian Refugees’ Experiences of Housing Stability during the COVID-19 Pandemic

 

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COVID-19 impact 'Just' mental health, stress, trauma, vulnerability lived experience stability identity PERSON-HOOD PSYCHE- PSYCHIATRY Spiritual - Beliefs - Hope - Sanctuary QUALITATIVE	COVID-19 impact housing stock: space/rooms/access stability 'just' [ in time ] - repeated displacement place, space, time, events, control systems GEO- Online 'life' education diet, food, cost QUANTITATIVE
SUBJECTIVE COVID-19 impact family size 'Just' (new) culture, language, customs Critical Social Theory social inequities, race, status, class... shared realities, narratives, interpretative discrimination, stigma, social isolation social justice, stability community, neighbourhoods family support, safety belonging SOCIO-	OBJECTIVE COVID-19 impact 'Just' policy housing markets government-assisted refugees power - [no] choice [beyond my control] Syrian refugees - forced migration housing instability low-income, affordability employment STATE-HOOD 'Re-settlement' - across this model? precarity -ECONOMIC

Fawziah Rabiah-Mohammed et al. (2022) Syrian Refugees’ Experiences of the Pandemic in Canada: Barriers to Integration and Just Solutions. Studies in Social Justice, 16,1, pp.9-32.

 

My source:
https://twitter.com/westernuNursing/status/1487161839922331651

One person's castle...

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Michael Allen, a former soldier, spent three years building a mountain fort after developing PTSD TOM WREN/SWNS @TomWrenPhoto	doing activity place reablement
sense making relationships roles belonging

 

The former homeless veteran who built a castle on a Welsh hill and welcomes thousands of visitors

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/former-homeless-veteran-who-built-22551325

My source:

Parker, C. One man’s castle helps in the fight for mental health. The Times, 6 January 2022, p.13.

Photos: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/one-mans-castle-helps-in-the-fight-for-mental-health-pj7jmhs97

@TomWrenPhoto https://www.tomwrenphoto.com/

 

Opening windows always ...

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takes work ...

 

takes energy ...

Window pulleys

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windows on the soul I can reflect Hey! No looking! frosted glass windows of opportunity?	the eye - touch - the senses (night) sky windows on the universe   a mirror science
Window on GREEN spaces shared vision rich-er picture role models stained glass wonder awe fear	social media window to identity (glass ceilings) transparency / opacity Windows™ barred window no light

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A window on social history ...

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Ask a child to draw a house ..?	Light Air*
A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt	HUMAN RIGHTS

 

Source:

A row of coal miners' houses with no windows to the street, Halifax, 1937 by Bill Brandt. Nostalgia is a seductive liar. pic.twitter.com/zrpzQySRjt

— Davenant 📸 (@MarcDavenant) March 29, 2021

 

https://www.billbrandt.com/bill-brandt-archive-print-shop/sp03-coal-miners-houses-with-no-windows-to-the-street-c1937

*and its quality

ERCIM News No. 124 Special Theme: "PANDEMIC - Modelling & Simulation"

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Poetry Health Service c/o HOME

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Poetry Health Service The Poetry Health Service is now open! The PHS is a brand new, free, creative service offering contemporary poetry as a tool for connection and healing. Fill in a colour based flow chart and receive your own complimentary poem.

My source: HOME, Manchester

Social Care: in the round and square c/o King's Fund

Simon Bottery's Long Read -

What’s your problem, social care? The eight key areas for reform

- and listed below, have been mapped to Hodges' model. The full article and comments are well worth reading and may help readers discern the relationships between the key areas identified.

1. Means testing: it’s not like the NHS 
2. Catastrophic costs: selling homes to pay for care 
3. Unmet need: people going without the care and support they need 
4. Quality of care: 15-minute care visits and neglect 
5. Workforce pay and conditions: underpaid, overworked staff 
6. Market fragility: care home companies going out of business 
7. Disjointed care: delayed transfers of care and lack of integration with health 
8. The postcode lottery: unwarranted variation in access and performance

I have associated each with the respective knowledge (care) domain in which they are placed:

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1. Parity of Esteem in Means Testing 2. (Catastrophic) Cost to me, anxiety, depression, stress 3. Unmet need (mental health, counselling ...) 4. Quality of Care (Mental Health, Well-Being..) 5. Workforce (values, person-centred, self-esteem, job-well-done, BE the Difference?) 6. Market fragility (attractiveness as career pathway, having a leader) 7. Disjointed care (number of carers, lived experience...) 8. Postcode (I thought this had been addressed?) (postcode? - a remote 'thing' outside through the window and (summer) garden]

1. Parity of Esteem in Means Testing 2. (Catastrophic) Cost to NHS - innovation, change, prevention, transformation 3. Unmet need (physical, access ...) 4. Quality of Care (Time, Logistics) 5. Workforce (tasks, scheduling, physically reasonable?) 6. Market fragility (scale, bed occupancy, local demographics...) 7. Disjointed care (geography, transfers, A&E admissions...) 8. Postcode ('literally') North, West, East, South, Regions, London, Urban, Rural ...

1. What is your Parity across 2. (Catastrophic) Cost to my family. 3. Unmet need (socialising, access, carer ..) 4. Quality of Care (Relationships, Belonging, Communication, Family Groups..) 5. Workforce (job satisfaction, status, social worth ..) 6. Market fragility (Public perception, marketing, negativity bias - local news, time for outreach, intergenerational engagement...) 7. Disjointed care (input of family, local provisions, self-funding - budgets...) 8. Postcode (pre-social care, pre-lottery?)

Means (let's Test that.) here too?  2. (Catastrophic) Cost to the State? 3. Unmet need (my choices, informal carer ...)  4. Quality of Care (Value for £, Measures, Inspection, safety..) 5. Workforce (pay and conditions, minimum wage?, Unions, contracts, training, BREXIT ..) 6. Market fragility (FUNDING settlements, estate, investment, staff turnover, Qualified staff, commercial history, profit, governance..) 7. Disjointed care (commissioning, ...) 8. Postcode (local policy, funding, protocols ..)

Poverty on Election Eve: Gross Neglect

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POVERTY in THOUGHT	Social care (Displaced demand) 'here'
Social Care (Supply deficit) 'here'	POVERTY in POLICY  & LEADERSHIP

Distant Constellation: @HOME

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"Distant	CONSTELLATION"
	@ HOME  (preferably!)

https://grasshopperfilm.com/film/distant-constellation/

#EndPJparalysis - NHS 70

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For people who are agitated and living with dementia their carers may learn to remove such cues as hat, coat and shoes. Seeing these may cause increased agitation as a need to be elsewhere. For #EndPJparalysis perhaps we can reverse this and use the sight clothes and footwear as a cue for 'get up & try to go'.	Required: decent research on hypoactive delirium and sleep (need to engage Prof Anita Simonds at the Brompton for this), and how to #endPJParalysis70 in hypoactive delirium. — shibley rahman (@dr_shibley) April 16, 2018

My source:

Please retweet
One week to go and the #endPJparalysis70 challenge begins. Right now, we need as many clinicians to download the #endPJparalysis app as possible so we can reach 14,286 patients a day for 70 days to reach our goal.
Here, the inimitable @Sonia_Sparkles shows us how pic.twitter.com/U8D5R663ui

— Brian Dolan RMN, RGN (@BrianwDolan) April 10, 2018