Nutrition for Survivorship (N4S) Launched Today

Nutrition for Survivorship (N4S) is a self-managed online Nutrition and Education Tool for Health Care Professionals to Support Cancer Survivors (without Active Cancer) which is launched today. With growing numbers of people surviving cancer in the UK, it is crucial to improve survivors’ quality of life and to reduce cancer recurrence.

N4S is designed for all health care professionals including nurses (general and cancer specialist nurses), allied health professionals,  medical doctors working in an acute Trust or in the community. It includes a nutrition knowledge quiz which can be completed after an ‘about you’ questionnaire is filled in. There is also a workbook to accompany the resource and all of the e-learning resources can be used to enhance a Continuous Professional Development (CPD) portfolio. Having explored the resources and activities, you then have the opportunity to repeat the quiz to check your knowledge again and see if it has improved.

N4S is a collaboration between the School of Health and Social Care at Bournemouth University and Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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The Carers World – An Interactive Reusable Learning Object

Our article on the Carer’s World for Dementia is now available in their November edition (Volume 9 Issue 4)

In 2006, the School of Health and Social Care (HSC) began experimenting with integrating the methods and themes of Lifeworld with Hypertext narrative into an educational resource. This process led to the development of a reusable learning object – the Carer’s World – designed to give users greater knowledge about, and insight into, the challenges of caring for people with Alzheimer’s. This paper describes the context, processes and influences of its creation and a discussion of how this type of development might increase knowledge and understanding around the issues of a carer’s world and also provide a tool for embedding into the higher educational health curriculum.

The Carers World – An Interactive Reusable Learning Object

Just had word that this article which has been in the pipeline for a while is now likely to appear in issue 9(4) of the Dementia journal…..

Abstract – Visual and interactive environments offer unique opportunities for emotive and immersive experiences related to health. Examples concerning Alzheimer’s include the film Ex Memoria, documentaries like Malcolm and Barbara: Love’s Farewell and the Remember Us virtual exhibit within Second Life. In 2006, the School of Health and Social Care (HSC) began experimenting with integrating the methods and themes of Lifeworld with Hypertext narrative into an educational resource. This process led to the development of a reusable learning object – the Carer’s World – designed to give users greater knowledge about, and insight into, the challenges of caring for people with Alzheimer’s. This paper describes the context, processes and influences of its creation and a discussion of how this type of development might increase knowledge and understanding around the issues of a carer’s world and also provide a tool for embedding into the higher educational health curriculum.

Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers Shortlisted for RCM Midwifery award

Our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package was shortlisted in the Johnson & Johnson Award for Excellence in Midwifery Education category of this year’s RCM Midwifery Awards. The RCM Annual Midwifery Awards each year help to promote and celebrate the best in midwifery with the awards lunch taking place in London on Wednesday 27 January.

Shortlisted entrants were invited to present their projects to the judging panel in London on 16 and 17 November 2009. As previously blogged, our package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives, using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline. A demonstration version is available from the Healthtalkonline website in the Teaching and Learning Section.

RCM website

RCM Midwifery Awards

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Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers Demo Now Online

Pleased to report that a demonstration version of our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package is now available on the Healthtalkonline website in the Teaching and Learning Section.

The package is a high quality, interactive, web-based ‘reusable learning object’, aimed at final year student midwives. Using video narratives of women’s lived experiences of breastfeeding selected from Healthtalkonline, together with other published evidence, students are provided with an enhanced insight about what kind of support is effective, empowering and valued, and what support is regarded as unhelpful, detrimental and disempowering. They are then encouraged to critically evaluate and challenge current practices that influence the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding, as well as reflect on their own practice and attitudes to breastfeeding.

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Healthtalkonline in the Telegraph

Nice to see the Daily Telegraph writing about Healthtalkonline (formerly Dipex). If you haven’t visited it yet, the site lets you share in other people’s experiences of health and illness. You can watch or listen to videos of the interviews, read about people’s experiences and find reliable information about conditions, treatment choices and support.

We have links to this site through the work we have been doing on our Supporting Breastfeeding Mothers E-Learning package and have been working recently on providing them with an edited version of the package which should be appearing on their site in the next few months in the Teaching and Learning Section.

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Paramedic Course uses Second Life

Students entering Second Life as virtual paramedics can assess and treat patients by checking their pulse, dressing wounds and administering drugs. They can also access a toolkit, including all the equipment you would typically find in an ambulance, such as oxygen masks and an electrocardiogram (ECG)……

Online Nursing

BBC News Story

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Plymouth e-Learning Conference Presentation

Attended a really enjoyable and stimulating e-learning conference at Plymouth today. Here’s my session on Web 2.0 @ BU – Use of Wikis within the School of Health & Social Care (instead of using powerpoint this session utilised a wikispace)

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Date & Time Of Presentation : Friday 4th April 2008 at 11.45am – 12.15pm

Andy At Plymouth

Steve Wheeler’s Conference Round-up

Southampton E-Learning Symposium

I attended an interesting day of presentations and workshops at the University of Southampton today…

Steve Wheeler report

Presentations from the event