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A Multidisciplinary Project to Enhance Workplace Readiness
Get PDFEngineers in the workplace regularly cooperate with specialists in other disciplines to meet the requirements of a project. However, this experience is seldom modelled in the education system; student projects often tend to focus only within one module or discipline. This limits the potential for students to be truly ‘work-ready’.
This paper describes how students can be better prepared for their careers, through completing a challenging project assessment. Students were tasked with designing and constructing an autonomous manufacturing system, as part of their ‘Manufacturing Systems’ and ‘PLC Programming 1’ modules, in Mechanical and Electrical streams of the Bachelor of Engineering Technology (B Eng Tech) at the Waikato Institute of Technology.
Interim results indicate that most students have established good communication practices and have allocated workload according to the strengths and levels of commitment of their project team members and milestone targets. The teams’ initial plans were lacking in some detail and reworking this had delayed their early progress a little. The design and early construction appears to be on track for the demonstration deadline in early June 2015. This progress encourages the tutors involved to plan for continuing to implement this type of multi-disciplinary project with other student cohorts. Final results and analysis are anticipated in July 2015.
The presentation will provide an overview of the gap between workplace projects and typical student project tasks and how this student project aims to address this gap. Students’ marks, feedback comments and tutors’ reflections will be summarised, with recommendations for future developments
Mentorship - “Thank you so much for this experience!”
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The Nursing Council of New Zealand (NCNZ) has leadership requirements of registered nurses (RNs) practicing in NZ. RNs must contribute to the support, direction and teaching of colleagues and provide guidance and support to those entering as students, beginning practitioners and those transferring into a new clinical environment (NCNZ, 2012, p. 22). While much of the undergraduate nursing curriculum focuses on the nursing skills of assessment, communication, evidence-based practice and prioritisation of care, less time is spent on developing the leadership skills that will be required by graduate nurses as they enter the work force.
Method
To introduce nursing students to the practical concepts of leadership, a mentorship exercise was developed for Year Three nursing students to work with Year One students. Following an introductory session on mentorship, Year Three students self-selected a session where they could facilitate Year One students learning a variety of assessment skills ranging from assessment of vital signs through to neurological assessment. Following these sessions the Year Three students wrote a reflection of their experience and developed learning objectives for their Integrated Practice paper.
Results
A thematic analysis shows that students valued the experience and it increased their awareness of their learning/development over the course of their programme. All students identified learning objectives for future practice.
Conclusion
Students benefit from working with students. Mentorship needs to be further developed and work needs to be done to take the exercise into the clinical environment
Partnering together to grow our future workforce - poster presentation
Get PDFQuality clinical experience for students is built on a strong partnership between the academic organisation and their clinical practice partners. This strong partnership needs to be apparent in the RN – student partnership, nurse educator/ clinical tutor connection as well as at senior manager levels. Wintec and Waikato District Health Board have been working collaboratively to enhance their relationship, taking a partnership approach to workforce development.
Our focus has been on learning together as a nursing community. A shared educator/clinical tutor development day was successful in strengthening connections. Tools to foster communication including newsletters and shared email addresses have been implemented. Significant activity to improve support and links for preceptors has occurred. A whakatau or formal welcome to the DHB for all students before placement begins has been another new initiative. Committing to partner with the learning of 200 fresh faced students has been powerful for all who attended. This presentation explores the strategies implemented to strengthen the academic/clinical partnershi
Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photography Festival, Athens, Greece. 2016
No full textIn recognition of the increasing importance of the photo book in contemporary photographic practices, the Festival presents a specific exhibition dedicated to the form of book.
The Festival is pleased to present a selection of over 350 new photobooks from all over the world, including photobooks independently or commercially published and distributed, handmade, self-published, book dummies, exhibition catalogues, zines and limited edition photography books, etc. The exhibited titles have been selected through an international open submission process, inviting artists and publishers to submit their books.
The exhibition takes place at the Benaki Museum, providing an opportunity for the audience to explore the diversity of contemporary photographic books.
In addition to the exhibition, these publications will be featured through an online public access catalog, as a way to further promote their visibility
Review of The Accessibility of Music: Participation, Reception, and Content, by Jochen Eisentraut
No full textReview of The Accessibility of Music: Participation, Reception, and Content, by Jochen Eisentraut, which addresses the different ways in which people access music, as pertaining to historical, musical, and cultural conditions
Invited Participant, Methods of Popular Music Analysis Summer School 2015
Get PDFInvited participant at the Methods of Popular Music Analysis Summer School, held 14-18 September 2015, University of Osnabrück, Germany. The course brought together 20 postgraduate students in popular music analysis from around the world to work with the leading professors in the field. The week culminated with group presentations that explicated the methods developed during the course
A UNIQUE APPROACH TO SUCCESSION PLANNING FOR DIABETES NURSES: EVALUATION OF AN EMERGING PROGRAMME
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To evaluate the emerging nurse internship programme developed by the Waikato Regional Diabetes Centre, Hamilton.
Objectives
To provide information on the emerging processes and the preliminary outcomes of the programme to the stakeholders of the Waikato Regional Diabetes Centre for planning and development.
Methods
The evaluation used a constructivist evaluation framework. Key stakeholders were interviewed individually or as a group at the beginning of the programme and at the end of the first rotation. The interns also completed self-assessment questionnaires at the beginning and at the end of their first rotation. Clients of the service completed a satisfaction questionnaire after receiving care from one of the interns.
Results and conclusions
The internship is a complex programme in that it has a number of parts, however the complexity makes the programme comprehensive. Two of the key factors that contributed to the programme’s early success, and which were valued by the interns, were the cohesive team environment and the inclusion in the programme of external professional supervision. At the end of the first rotation three of the interns had gained confidence in their knowledge and skills related to diabetes care while the fourth intern had lost confidence in her skills and knowledge. The programme added to the workload of the Clinical Nurse Specialists who provided clinical supervision but who were committed to providing supervision. One intern was positioned in a general practice so did not rotate around the other placements. The practice felt they had experienced gains from her being in the programme because she was able to take on patients with greater complexity in her clinics. Additionally, the other practice nurses increased their knowledge about diabetes as a result of the intern’s engagement in the programme and the relationship with the Waikato Regional Diabetes Centre
Breakery - Texas Independent Film Festival 2016
No full textOn his release from the Treemore Correctional Facility for Men, career burglar Karl Plunkett Jr. is determined to make amends for his earlier life of crime. Enlisting the help of younger brother Brian, Karl embarks on a quest for redemption – through the unconventional method of breaking into his former victim’s homes and replacing earlier stolen household items with goods of equal value
L.O.Q.Shun - BYOB 3 2016
Get PDF2015 | 04:00 | HD Video | 16:9 | Stereo | Director: Dan Inglis | Music: Jeremy Mayall | Soprano: Julia Booth
An experimental digital collage film exploring ideas of communication and comprehension.
Based around text from a nineteenth century elocution manual by A. M. Bell. With music by Jeremy Mayall and soprano Julia Booth
A New Approach for Classifying Radiology Reports
No full textUsually, physicians need radiology reports to diagnose their patients' illness. Radiology reports are mostly stored as unstructured text from which information retrieval is difficult. As a consequence, interpreting unstructured radiology reports automatically needs sophisticated text mining algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new approach for structuring textual radiology reports. In the proposed approach radiology experts provide a set of patterns each of which consists of items with specific properties. Using the patterns as class labels, a radiology report is then classified based on the items found in its sentences. In the proposed approach, the given radiology report is first classified by a Naïve Bayes classifier to support uncertainty. Then, a Boolean classifier is applied to the report which uses exact matching to achieve high precision. Finally, a Case-Based Reasoning classifier is used to learn new patterns from the report if there is any. The experimental results show that the proposed approach can dynamically classify radiology reports with high precision