scholarly journals Understanding the barriers faced by TNE-students when completing advanced-level laboratory-based practical classes

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 221258682110460
Author(s):  
Philippa B Cranwell ◽  
Daguo Li ◽  
Elizabeth M Page ◽  
Karin L Whiteside ◽  
Aaron EW Woodcock
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Cultural Norms ◽  
Transnational Education ◽  
Domestic Students ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
Technical Language ◽  
Recommendations For Practice ◽  
The Uk

This study reports the barriers faced by Transnational Education (TNE)-students when completing practical work in the UK, having transferred to the UK for their final year of study as part of a chemistry degree. Self-identified barriers these students faced included the following: recall of information, difficulties writing the technical reports required for assessment, different educational cultural norms between China and the UK, especially in relation to health and safety, and a lack confidence using English, in particular with the technical language. It was noticed by both participants and researchers that there was minimal interaction with the domestic students and prevalent use of Chinese within the TNE-students’ social group, which may have created a ‘cultural enclave’. The results from this study have been used to derive a number of recommendations for practice for TNE-programmes that contain a significant practical element.

Policy interventions in health and safety: What works and when--Evidence from the UK

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hollis ◽  
Stavroula Leka ◽  
Aditya Jain ◽  
Nicholas J. A. Andreou ◽  
Gerard Zwetsloot
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
Policy Interventions ◽  
What Works ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Reaffirming health and safety precautionary principles for COVID-19 in the UK

The Lancet ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 397 (10271) ◽  
pp. 274
Author(s):  
Raymond M Agius ◽  
Denise Kendrick ◽  
Herb F Sewell ◽  
Marcia Stewart ◽  
John FR Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
The Uk

Biomonitoring at the UK Health and Safety Laboratory

2007 ◽  
Vol 210 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 383-386 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Cocker ◽  
K. Jones ◽  
J. Morton ◽  
H.J. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Health And Safety ◽  
The Uk

The changing context of advanced practice nursing within the UK community care setting

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (12) ◽  
pp. 581-586
Author(s):  
Barry Hill ◽  
Sadie Diamond-Fox ◽  
Aby Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Community Care ◽  
Advanced Practice Nursing ◽  
Advanced Practice ◽  
Advanced Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Independent Prescribing ◽  
Consultation Skills ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Additional Education ◽  
And Training

Advanced practice nursing (APN) roles have developed partly to address demand and workforce issues. In community care settings and general practice, an advanced nursing practitioner is generally understood to mean a nurse who has undertaken additional education and training in clinical assessment, including history-taking and physical examination, clinical reasoning and independent prescribing, so they can safely manage patients presenting with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions. Capabilities in the Skills for Health framework cover everything from communication and consultation skills, practising holistically and personalised care, to working with colleagues and in teams. The framework is intended to ensure advanced nursing practitioners work to an advanced level. It is also designed to support them to demonstrate and evidence their capabilities to service commissioners, employers, people accessing healthcare and the public.

Workplace and Health: A Survey of Classical Orchestral Musicians in the United Kingdom and Germany

2002 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-92
Author(s):  
Beatrice S Harper
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Related ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Working Lives ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Orchestral Musicians

This article presents the results of a survey that was carried out among UK and German professional classical musicians between November 2000 and April 2001. The UK Musicians’ Union and the German musicians’ union, the Deutsche Orchester Vereinigung (DOV), assisted greatly with the duplication and distribution of the questionnaires. Selected results have been disseminated to the respondents via the UK Musicians’ Union journal, Musician. A full report will appear in Cultural Trends, to be published in 2002 by the Policy Studies Institute, London. The survey covered many aspects of musicians’ perceptions of occupational health and safety, the provision of appropriate information, their general working conditions, and their health. One of the main aims was to bring to the forefront a discussion of musicians’ working conditions and to raise awareness of the range of problems that exist. Key findings identify areas of concern to the respondents, in particular, regarding the environmental conditions of their workplaces. Additionally, findings indicate the use and effectiveness of the measures used by musicians to ameliorate a range of occupational hazards. This article also reports the respondents’ hearing problems, and which medical and alternative practitioners the sample consulted in cases of work-related ill health. The contrasting structure of the profession determined the choice of the United Kingdom and Germany for this study. The UK classical music workforce is predominantly freelance, whereas in Germany there are relatively few freelance musicians, and most orchestral musicians have the status of local government employees. One of the aims of the survey was to elicit information that might indicate whether such different conditions of employment affect the working lives of musicians. This article is organized in two parts. The first part places this survey in context and discusses the particular range of health problems highlighted by the respondents. The second part presents the survey and its findings.

Anti-smoking legislation

2020 ◽  
pp. 245-245
Author(s):  
Mike Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Tobacco Use ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

In Anti-smoking legislation Mike Gibson briefly explores the history of tobacco use in the UK, and the development of health and safety laws surrounding smoking.

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