Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD

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 ...

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Surgery, Medicine and Nursing: Art & Science

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

My source: Various - newspaper reviews, visits to Waterstones, Foyles, & Hatchards

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Pay "Nurse Kathy" ?

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

Kathy ...







Estimate:
HK$31,000,000 - 41,000,000
€3,420,000-4,530,000
$3,970,000-5,260,000


My source: FT Weekend, Arts, 18-19 November 2017, p.16.


Tuesday, November 21, 2017

"Hallucination Machine" = Humanistic insights?

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








See also:

Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science

Video source - Wired How scientists are manipulating the mind with VR

[Preprint] The Hallucination Machine: A Deep-Dream VR platform for Studying the Phenomenology of Visual Hallucinations Keisuke Suzuki, Warrick Roseboom, David J. Schwartzman, Anil K. Seth
bioRxiv 213751; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/213751

My source:
Moody, O. (2017) Trip without the high on Sussex University’s hallucination machine, The Times,  20 November. p.21.

Monday, November 13, 2017

... graph portability ...

individual
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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group
care graph portability

care graph portability



social graph portability

& care graph portability

care graph portability


Of course, social graph portability and care graph portability do not bear comparison. Social graph portability is still contested as the media reveals. But 'care graph portability' is stretching it...

In this post I wish to point out the internal transactions (conceptual portability - facets - patterns) that are needed to achieve person centred and holistic care at the individual level. This can then be integrated. Throughout an individual episode of care, to recovery and staying well this 'care graph portability' can be said to be achieved through reflective practice that also engages the patient and carer(s) to facilitate self-care and health literacy. This is true portability in the care context.

See also:
Is social graph portability workable?

My source: Harford, T. (2017) How to poke Facebook off its perch, FT Weekend, 4-5 November, p.12.


Sunday, November 12, 2017

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Happiness! Happiness! ...

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL
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group

Purpose 
(One of the 4P's in Hodges' model)
Joy
Satisfaction

The Blue Zone



Quality of Life -
4 All?

World Happiness Report 2017

Thursday, November 09, 2017

Due South - 360 degree perspectives



Andy Goldsworthy "Touching North" (1989)

Being a cultural theorist the concept of ‘the south’ is particularly interesting to me (as are the other points of the compass, since they are often set in binaries and have values attached to them when set in opposition – for example the North/South divide in Britain). Coverley begins the introduction by showing us a 17th century map of the south pole and then describes the work by the artist Andy Goldsworthy entitled Touching North (1989) (see below). Touching North was situated at the North Pole, with the four individual parts of the sculpture facing each other and also outwards, with holes in the centre providing them with an opening which enabled them a space accessible from anywhere and everywhere. Coverley says that the sculpture “demonstrates how the directions of the compass may effectively be rendered meaningless: emerge through any of the four arches and one finds oneself heading south” (page 9). From:
http://particulations.blogspot.co.uk/2016/12/south-by-merlin-coverley.html


INDIVIDUAL
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interpersonal : science
humanistic --------------------------------------- mechanistic
sociology : political
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GROUP and POPULATION


N


S

NORTH?


SOUTH?


Photo: "Touching North" from:
http://beautifuldecay.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/goldsworthy-andy-1989-touching-north.jpg

Additional link:
http://www.goldsworthy.cc.gla.ac.uk/

Tuesday, November 07, 2017

UK: The assessment of risk and safety in mental health services

Background

Managing the safety of patients in mental health services is a core function. A variety of tools or scales are being used in mental health services, some of which are locally developed and typically not validated. In 36% of suicides the quality of risk assessment was considered unsatisfactory (NCISH). We are conducting a nationwide evaluation of safety management in the UK.

Aims of the study

  • What are the views of mental health professionals, service users and carers on the safety planning process in mental health services and how this could be improved? 
  • Which risk assessment tools are currently being used in mental health services in the UK? 
  • How are these tools being used prior to suicide? 
Method

The study will use both quantitative and qualitative methods to examine which assessment tools for safety are currently used in mental health services in the UK, and how staff, patients and carers view them. There are three data collection sources for the study:
  1. Web-based survey
  2. Targeted survey of mental health services
  3. Interviews with clinicians
For more information and to participate in the survey please see the NCISH website and follow the link -

http://research.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/cmhs/research/centreforsuicideprevention/nci/

My source:
Jane Graney 
jane.graney AT manchester.ac.uk