The Contribution of Disciplines from the Arts and Humanities to addressing Antimicrobial Resistance: final report

The Contribution of Disciplines
from the Arts and Humanities
to addressing
Antimicrobial Resistance

 Dear RIPEN workshop participants

 

It is now over a year since our last main sets of RIPEN workshops and of course so much has happened in that time that I don't know quite where to begin (!!). So I won't start into talking about COVID. Only to say that I very much hope that you and yours are managing to get through this ok so far. I know that I speak for the rest of the RIPEN team when I say that recent events have only served to highlight the central place of nursing and caring in society which is a source of pride (if not so much monetary reward!).

 

Anyway, I thought that some of you might be interested in this link to the final report from a follow-on study that I've just completed. It draws together learning from all the 11 projects funded by the AHRC at the same time as RIPEN: http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/7418/ . 

 

The report is best viewed in double page layout (download, save then open). Obviously, it is of less direct relevance to hands on nursing applications, but I think our experiences on RIPEN showed how important the wider picture often is (as evident in the events of the last six months!).

Please feel free to share with others through any of your own networks as relevant. 

with best wishes

Colin

Dr Colin Macduff

Senior Research Fellow

School of Design

Glasgow School of Art

 

MacDuff, Colin (2020) The Contribution of Disciplines from the Arts and Humanities to addressing Antimicrobial Resistance (CODA AMR). Project Report. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow.  

n.b. I will have a read myself and post again before the end of the year.

REPORT: Creative methods to envision nursing practices addressing AMR - c/o RIPEN

Between the summer of 2018 and October 2019 a group of nurses from various disciplines and roles took part in a series of research workshops in Glasgow and London, culminating in a policy workshop event at the RCN in London. It was a pleasure and a challenge to be able to contribute and learn about this very urgent and global issue.


Here from the RIPEN website is a description and link to the report:

March 2020: New report:  Creative methods to envision nursing practices addressing AMR

A report on the use of arts and humanities approaches to co-design healthcare service innovation
 
The RIPEN project has asked: “How can relevant arts and humanities approaches help nurses to re-envisage their infection control practice ecologies in response to antimicrobial resistance?”. Our new report shows how we addressed this question, focusing on the creative methods used and lessons learned. We hope this will be useful for nurses and other healthcare professionals, designers and artists, educators, researchers, policy activists, and anyone else with an interest in the arts and health.

Please feel free to download, share and feedback any comments.

A video is also available on the website.

RIPEN: Re-envisaging Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing

Re-envisioning Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing (RIPEN)

Reading about RIPEN in the May issue of the RCN Bulletin I am pleased to be able to contribute to the workshops.

Glove Awareness Week: Under the SSKIN ii

Glove Awareness Week

29 April - 3 May 2019

WHO 5th May - Hand Hygiene Awareness Day

SELF - individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES

humanistic ----------------------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL

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group - POPULATION

"What should I do?"	Glove Awareness: RCN
What can we do?	What must I/we do?

On the 15th April in London I attended the 3rd RIPEN workshop (Re-envisioning Infection Practice Ecologies in Nursing) I learned a lot from listening to colleagues far closer day-to-day - night-to-night to the sharp end of infection control and protective measures. Of particular interest was discussion on hand-washing and the circumstances, frequency and numbers of dressing packs that are used and the constant search for evidence-based practice.

Actually without taking anything from those people at the infection coal-face, can I take back that reference to "far closer"?

Take it back, because this really matters to us ALL.

See also:
Under the SSKIN 

Typologies in nursing - Macduff (2007)

This paper was brought to my attention by the author Colin Macduff (now retired) who was Principal Investigator in a project [2018-2020] RIPEN. This included a series of workshops to which I was able to contribute. I knew this would be useful and must find the paper (in 14,1) also mentioned.

"What are typologies?

In relation to this initial question. Patton (2002) offers a useful definition and  distinction: 'Typologies are classification systems made up of categories that divide some aspect of the world into parts along a continuum. They differ from taxonomies, which completely classify a phenomenon through mutually exclusive and exhaustive categories, like the biological system for classifying species. Typologies, in contrast, are built on ideal types or illustrative  endpoints rather than a complete and discrete set of categories'." p.41.

'Most commonly, typology constructors such as Roberts-Davis et al  (1998) and Nolan et al (1995) present them as ways of clarifying thinking  rather than as rigid structures that are universally applicable. The difficulty  here is that within nursing discourse a number of other devices such as conceptual frameworks and models are also commonly used to this end.' p.42.

individual

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INTERPERSONAL : SCIENCES             

humanistic ------------------------------- mechanistic

SOCIOLOGY : POLITICAL   

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group

Box 1: Typology of family care (Nolan et al 1995) Anticipatory care Preventive care   Supervisory care   Instrumental care   Protective care   Preservative care   (Re)constructive care   Reciprocal care p.44.

If you can obtain a copy^, do check out Box 2 and Figure 1, plus the discussion and conclusion.

Macduff, C. (2007). Typologies in nursing: A review of the literature. Nurse Researcher, 14(2), Article 2.  https://doi.org/10.7748/nr2007.01.14.2.40.c6020 (^Paywall)

Drupal - update: a blast from the past!

I scratched (blew up) the draft Drupal site - for the umpteenth time - some five-six weeks ago. It did not take long to be back up and 'core' refreshed. As I build the content I keep saving them. It's just the the three archive pages. I've not resurrected the timeline, but get the gist now. The spreadsheet with the content is there when / if needed. The conclusion of this is that well into our summer and yes, the focus drifted again.

Off the Gosport ferry 1977... 2018

Perhaps, it's the hot-for-us summer and the World Cup? The presentation at the UKSS conference is now completed and discovering another very learned community. That trip to Portsmouth provided for some reminiscence of train - ferry and walks made 41 years earlier. It's not just the NHS that sees change. While Gosport has been in the news of late for all the wrong reasons; the trip was an opportunity to reflect and revisit a brief but key experience of my teenage years. What if... indeed...

I'm clearer about the draft paper on threshold concepts, deprivation of liberty safeguarding and Hodges' model. That paper may have found a home at last, but as two papers not one. I've pushed that revision division back to late summer - autumn. Reading for the next book review is proving really enjoyable. The book will accompany me to London this weekend for the RIPEN workshop tomorrow. I've responded to the virtual learning environment invitation and - for my prep - answered the workshop's four questions against Hodges' model of course. After the workshop there's an exhibition to head for in the early evening.

As for Drupal, I've been using Composer and trying to solve some of the errors that 'Status Report' reveals. Now at least d3.js and highlight.js are resolved. CDN warnings have been turned off. The constant push that is Drupal has moved on to 8.5.5 with a message today about September 5th release for 8.6. Maybe I should wait, but the practice, the practice..! I'm not going to Drupal Europe much as I might like, I've not earned the stripes. I am looking f/w to grappling once again. I need to find the modules that are key to the new site so that I can reward - encourage myself with something tangible and upload (something!!).