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Domestic violence against women and children : An exploration of the impact of this experience on the life of a child
No full textThe impact of the experience of domestic violence on a child's life was explored in this investigation. Although there has been a great amount of research conducted in relation to domestic violence, the majority of these studies focus on the effects of this experience in relation to the parent. There has been less consideration given to the impact on children. Therefore, this is one of the reasons as to why the aim of this study was acquired. The objective of this research was to offer an effective insight into the standard of living of these individuals from their experiences. An aspiration of the investigation was to inform future practice in this area in order for appropriate support structures to be accounted for. A qualitative research paradigm was applied for the purpose of collecting an understanding of the elements of these individuals' life that are affected. In exploring the impact, the health, development and education of a child were all accounted for. Furthermore, the age and gender factors that influence the discussed effects were also recognised as well as the factors that can either have a positive or a negative affect on the experience. Purposive sampling was the method used in order for the characteristics of the sample population to be employed as a way of selection. This was dependent on the professional expertise within the area of domestic violence. Semi-structured interviews were chosen as the conduction of data collection. Thematic analysis was the format used to process the interviews. From this analysis, four main themes emerged. These included influencing factors relating to children's reactions to domestic violence, behavioural and emotional reactions that children have to domestic violence and the impact on schooling, the impact of domestic abuse on children's relationships and supports to help children's experience of this abuse. Implications arose as a consequence of the study findings. It was evident that there is a need for additional services to intervene appropriately in order to allow for children to have positive outcomes during their time as a child and consequently as an adult. This could be achieved by encouraging the appropriate services to implement prevention and intervention procedures to safeguard children in need of protection from domestic abuse, as outlined in one theme from the findings. This would aim to increase awareness of domestic violence and its huge effect on children
The Dublin Municipal Officers' Association and the 1916 Rising
Get PDFThe DMOA was the organisation that mobilised the Dublin Corporation officers and formed the national local government officers trade union for the the revolutionary Dáil Éireann in the aftermath of 1916
To examine the effects of violence on social care workers in Ireland
No full textIn social care, there are certain aspects and areas that are seen to be more at risk of experiencing violence in the workplace. Violence can be experienced in three ways, physical, verbal and psychological. Each way can affect a person differently and no two people have the same reaction and resilience to violence. There are certain costs to the individual and the service provider who have experienced violence in the workplace. Violence should not be something that is anticipated whilst attending work and it is an aspect of life that social care needs to be more aware of. Violence can affect people in different ways and many are negative. In no part of the research has violence affected anybody positively, apart from instigating change in policy. Violence can affect people in ways such as but not limited to; stress, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, panic attacks and physical injuries such as broken limbs. High staff turnover is also linked with violence in social care. Service users can then tend to act out more when they are not linked with regular staff members or there is a lack of communication between staff members. Through qualitative research and the use of non-probability purposive sampling the target audience will be reached. Semi-structured interviews will be used as the method to gather data. There are certain limitations through carrying out this research. There are not a lot of Irish findings in this field and through interviews it could be found that a high level of support and good rapport with the service users mean that social care workers in Ireland do not fit into the literature that already exists
NETLAKE guidelines for automated monitoring system development. Factsheet 006: Power supply options.
Get PDFThe purpose of this fact sheet is to provide some practical advice on how to minimize potentially destructive effects of lightning and lightning induced voltage transients
NETLAKE guidelines for automated monitoring system development. Factsheet 007: Communication options.
Get PDFThe purpose of this fact sheet is to provide some advice on the available methods to communicate with and retrieve data from your automated monitoring system
NETLAKE guidelines for automated monitoring system development. Measurement frequency (Factsheet 011).
Get PDFData handling: cleaning and quality control. In Obrador, B., Jones, I.D. and Jennings, E. (Eds.) NETLAKE toolbox for the analysis of high-frequency data from lakes (Factsheet 1).
Get PDFHenry (Harry) Nicholls (1887-1975) Assistant City Engineer and Republican Revolutionary
Get PDFHarry Nicholls was the assistant city engineer to Dublin City, a member of the IRB and the Irish Volunteers active in the College of Surgeons garrison. He was a Protestant and the only graduate of TCD to be on the side of the revolution
The MedITNet Assessment Method – Development and Validation using Action Design Research. Self Assessment against IEC 80001-1
No full textThe provision of care to patients has moved away from episodic acute care due to the increase in chronic diseases such as diabetes. This has changed the relationship between the patient and the care team. The management of chronic disease requires the use of information technology including networked medical devices to facilitate the establishment of an ongoing relationship between the patient and care team. The use of networked medical devices can
provide benefits to patients such as reduced cost of care, reductions in adverse events and improved care through the provision of accurate and up-to-date information. However, the placement of a medical device onto an IT network can lead to risks to the device. These risks may lead to incorrect or degraded performance of the device impacting patient care and negating the potential benefits of using the device. While, IEC 80001-1 was developed to assist Healthcare Delivery Organisations in addressing these risks, HDOs may struggle in implementing the requirements of the standard. This paper discusses the development of an Assessment Method that forms part of MedITNet, an assessment framework that can be used by Healthcare Delivery Organisationss to assist them in implementing the requirements of the standard by providing a flexible, consistent and repeatable approach to assessing the capability of their risk management processes relating to networked medical devices. The assessment highlights weaknesses in the process and can be used as a foundation to
improve these processes. This paper also discusses the development and validation of the Assessment Method using Action Design Research
Investigating the Suitability of Using Agile for Medical Embedded Software Development
No full textAgile has been the subject of safety and critical domain in recent years. Emerging medical devices are highly relying on embedded software that runs on the specific platform in real time. The development of embedded software is different from ordinary software development due to the hardware-software dependency. Previous literature reviews discussed the challenges of bringing Agile practices to embedded software developments in general. This paper outlines the challenges and addresses the future work from medical embedded software development perspective